Investigating why some children get leukaemia after treatment for other cancers
Looking at the early stages of leukaemia that develops after treatment for other cancers to find out what changes occur and how to fight it.
Investigating nanomedicines to make treatment safer for children with cancer
Looking at how nanoparticles could improve drug delivery and reduce toxicity for young cancer patients.
Assessing a potent drug combination to fight Wilms tumour
Using two drugs to prevent an essential Wilms tumour protein interacting with a growth-promoting protein, and testing this treatment in patient samples.
MonoGerm clinical trial – is one chemotherapy medicine safer for germinomas?
Testing whether treatment could be safely reduced for children with germinoma brain tumours
Identifying new treatment options for Burkitt lymphoma that doesn’t respond to treatment
Using Burkitt lymphoma models to find essential survival genes to target for therapy.
Understanding chemotherapy doesn’t work as well for some children with neuroblastoma
Investigating how cancer cells can keep dividing and why this makes it harder to treat.
Using anti-depressants to improve immunotherapy for neuroblastoma
Using anti-depressants to prevent the body's immune system from fighting immunotherapy treatments.
Creating a new combination treatment for children's brain tumours
Repurposing medicines to support a new type of immunotherapy for brain tumours.
How do DNA cutting errors lead to relapsed childhood leukaemia
Looking at how a process called 'cut-and-run' leads to genetic errors, and how those errors could be prevented in order to prevent relapse in childhood leukaemia.