Degrading the anaplastic lymphoma kinase protein to treat paediatric cancers
Dr Lizzie Tucker will assess a new type of treatment to fight ALK-driven childhood cancers like neuroblastoma.
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.
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.
Finding the most beneficial dose of fludarabine to optimise CAR-T therapy
Dr Shelby Barnett and Dr Geoff Shenton will monitor crucial drug levels in patients' blood in order to improve CAR T therapy protocols.
Targeting metabolism in aggressive childhood blood cancers
Prof Jonathan Bond and Dr Marie-Claire Fitzgerald aim to find a treatment that can exploit a key weakness of acute myeloid leukaemia.
Tracking individual osteosarcoma cells to understand how they dodge chemotherapy
Dr Lucia Cottone at University College London hopes to understand how osteosarcoma cells become resistant to chemotherapy, which has a big impact on patient survival.
Optimising drug treatment for childhood cancer patients
It is particularly difficult to treat some groups of childhood cancer patients, especially infants in their first weeks of life. This application is to fund this rapidly developing research programme for two years, involving the treatment of 150-200.
Making an ‘off-the-shelf’ CAR-T cell treatment for children with solid cancers
Creating an immunotherapy that can be delivered to patients more quickly and cost-effectively.
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.