Our research projects

This work focuses on defining how a new oncoprotein (called CARM1) we have discovered in neuroblastoma cells helps the cancer cells to survive, grow and avoid death.

Craniopharyngioma, a brain tumour affecting children, is difficult to treat. Work within the laboratories of the investigators has identified potential drugs that could turn off tumour growth. These drugs will be tested in patients whose tumours have regrown in a clinical trial.

This research focuses on the development of novel drugs for the treatment of childhood brain tumours.

Examining whether a group of drugs called gliflozins could be used to treat T-ALL

Single-cell transcriptomics linked to lineage tracing to interrogate the role of intra-tumour heterogeneity in shaping therapeutic susceptibility and resistance in paediatric cancer

Developing and delivering small molecule drug and immunotherapy combinations for MYC-driven medulloblastoma: Efficacy, evolution and exploitation.

Defining the molecular landscape of paediatric and adolescent acute leukaemia in Tanzania

Investigating repurposed drugs to decrease the progression of Ewing’s sarcoma

Towards a new therapy against childhood brain cancer: How does the Zika virus kill aggressive brain tumour cells?