Mapping connections with the brain in diffuse midline glioma
Professor Darren Hargrave aims to study electrical signals in the brain which could help diffuse midline glioma spread.
Can we improve survival by changing frontline treatments for high-risk medulloblastoma?
Dr Rebecca Hill and her team hope to develop new tools to test chemotherapy options that will combine with radiotherapy to treat high-risk medulloblastoma.
Finding kinder drugs in genetically matched cell models for childhood leukaemia
Professor Alex Thompson and his team at the University of Nottingham aim to learn more about leukaemia to support the development of kinder treatments.
Investigating the role of SET in childhood acute myeloid leukaemia to develop new treatments
Dr Maria Teresa Esposito hopes to learn more about a gene called SET in leukaemia and will test the best medicines to fight it.
Unravelling the behaviour of individual lymphoma cells to find out why the cancer can relapse or resist treatment
Professor Suzanne Turner will investigate the behaviour of individual lymphoma cells in order to find out why treatments fail.
Exploring surrounding epigenetic influences in Ewing sarcoma
Dr Sara Sánchez Molina is investigating how a certain gene drives Ewing sarcoma in order to find a better way to treat it.
Exploring how osteosarcoma cells spread and survive elsewhere in the body
Dr Olivier Pardo will investigate how osteosarcoma cells which escape into the bloodstream survive to spread elsewhere in the body.
Understanding how childhood cancers spread
Looking at how cancer cells alter the scaffolding inside the body that organises cells in order to spread and make new tumours.
How do immune cells protect childhood ependymoma tumours?
Looking at how brain tumours hijack immune cells, forcing them to support cancer growth instead of fighting it.