Our research projects

Improving genetic testing for children with kidney cancers like Wilms tumour and finding a way to improve diagnosis and relapse monitoring.

Investigating how different levels short non-coding RNAs affect germ cell tumour cells, and testing whether medicines altering these levels could be a potential treatment.

Investigating whether diet or lifestyle changes could help children cope with bone marrow transplants better.

Looking at whether a pre-existing drug could be an effective and safe treatment due to its ability to target cancer cells directly.

Dr Jess Morgan at Leeds Children’s Hospital and Dr Gemma Bryan at University of Surrey hope to understand more about how hospitals are offering chemotherapy that needs to be given as infusions over a number of days.

Looking for repurposed treatments that can fight leukaemia cells in very young children.

Creating a new immunotherapy that will attacks collagen in cancer cells, and testing whether it is effective in model systems to make it the best it can be.

Finding out which changes to how DNA is read in neuroblastoma can give doctors more information about the cancer, and investigating whether these changes could be stopped through medicines.

Looking at how medulloblastoma brain tumours use an amino acid, and whether blocking access to that resource would make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment.