How can we most effectively support the nutrition of children with osteosarcoma?
Assessing the advantages and disadvantages of gastronomies and nasogastric tubes to help children who lose weight on cancer treatment.
Could ‘prehabilitation’ help prepare children with cancer for a stem cell transplant?
Investigating whether diet or lifestyle changes could help children cope with bone marrow transplants better.
Understanding how hospitals are offering chemotherapy infusions
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.
Why does neurodegeneration occur in Langerhans cell histiocytosis?
Discovering what causes nerve cells to stop working and die years after a Langerhans cell histiocytosis diagnosis.
Exploring new targeted therapy options for acute myeloid leukaemia in babies
Looking for repurposed treatments that can fight leukaemia cells in very young children.
How does MYCN change the way genetic information is read?
Understanding how the MYCN protein changes the amounts of other proteins in the cell by changing the way DNA is processed and translated.
A new immunotherapy treatment for paediatric high-grade glioma
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.
Understanding how Wilms tumour stem cells escape chemotherapy
Investigating cancer stem cells in Wilms tumour to see whether they are responsible for relapse, and to understand how that happens.
What happens in cells to make neuroblastoma develop and how can we stop this?
Looking at what extra pieces of chromosomes do in neuroblastoma and how these work with the MYCN protein to convert healthy cells into cancer cells.