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About the research team

The research team is located in the Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre at Newcastle University, a £5.5m facility opened in September 2016. It brings together over 90 scientists and clinicians working on childhood cancer in state-of-the-art facilities and is one of the few national and international units providing a complete research pipeline for childhood cancer, ranging from identifying treatment targets to developing new medicines and testing them in clinical trials. The research team lead by Profs Olaf Heidenreich and Josef Vormoor are internationally recognized for their contributions to the treatment of childhood leukaemia including the development of models for pre-clinical medicine testing, the investigation of mechanisms of leukaemia propagation and the translation of research findings into clinical trials. This combined expertise will be crucial for succeeding in our quest for less toxic treatments of childhood leukaemia.