Investigating an amino acid to improve medulloblastoma treatment
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.
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.
Developing a kinder and more effective immunotherapy for neuroblastoma
Modifying current immunotherapy so that it doesn't cause damage to nerve cells and instead targets three molecules to help kill neuroblastoma cells more effectively.
Protecting young hearts from chemotherapy-related heart problems
Investigating whether giving a medicine before doxorubicin cancer treatment could prevent heart damage.
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.
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.
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.
MonoGerm clinical trial – is one chemotherapy medicine safer for germinomas?
Testing whether treatment could be safely reduced for children with germinoma brain tumours
Discovering what makes teenagers and young adults with soft tissue sarcomas different
Finding the biological differences between teenage and young adult cancers cells compared to older adults.