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Understanding why chromosome duplication occurs in the cells of children with cancer, and if it can be used when designing new treatments.

Aneuploidy is a driver of childhood cancer and a target for novel therapies.

Professor Christine Harrison, Professor Jonathan Higgins and Professor Steve Clifford, Newcastle University

Deciphering inherited susceptibility to childhood cancer

Understanding why some children inherit a greater risk of developing cancer

Professor Richard Houlston, The Institute of Cancer Research

Building an atlas of rhabdomyosarcoma to better guide research into the disease

A single cell mRNA atlas of rhabdomyosarcoma at presentation and relapse – identifying foetal developmental targets

Dr Sam Behjati and Dr Karin Straathof, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, University College London

Investigating how childhood leukaemia develops

Investigating how childhood leukaemia develops

Prof. Katrin Ottersbach, University of Edinburgh

Understanding the interplay between early life factors, the genome and childhood cancer risk

Identifying epigenetic biomarkers of early-life factors in association with childhood cancer risk.

Dr Natália Spitz Toledo Dias, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Assessment of mycotoxins as contributing factor to Burkitt’s lymphoma in children from Africa

Studying the synergistic effect of mycotoxins exposure and Epstein Barr virus infection in causing Burkitt’s Lymphoma in Africa

Dr Grace Akinyi Odongo, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

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