Harnessing the immune system to treat Ewing sarcoma in the lungs
Dr Jonathan Fisher aims to create an 'off the shelf' version of immunotherapy to for hard-to-treat Ewing sarcoma.
Understanding new treatment options for when treatment for neuroblastoma doesn’t work or the cancer grows back
Dr Jess Morgan at the University of York will review the latest experimental treatments for hard-to-treat neuroblastoma to help with decision-making.
Understanding existing research about ambulatory chemotherapy for children and young people
Dr Jess Morgan at the University of York hopes to understand what we already know about using portable chemotherapy pumps for children with cancer.
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.
Exploring how osteosarcoma cells spread and survive elsewhere in the body
Dr Olivier Pardo at Imperial College London aims to find out how osteosarcoma cells survive the bloodstream and spread elsewhere in the body.
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.
Investigating a new way of treating poor-prognosis rhabdomyosarcoma
Evaluating a novel protein methyltransferase inhibitor for poor-prognosis rhabdomyosarcoma therapy
Delivering packaged drugs into paediatric brain tumours using ultrasound
Diffuse midline glioma is a devastating brain tumour, affecting primarily young children. There’s currently no cure for this disease and treatment options are limited. This is mainly because this type of tumour is well-protected from drugs by the ‘blood-brain barrier’. This barrier physically blocks all medications from entering the brain. Our group has developed new methods of bypassing this barrier using focused ultrasound.
Fighting circular DNA to prevent relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Looking at whether medicines that prevent circular DNA replication can help prevent relapse.