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Research Stories


The Brain’s Drug Delivery Challenge

A blog by Emma Campbell, PhD – Children’s Brain Tumour Drug Delivery Consortium
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Parliamentary Report on Brain Tumour Research

In 2016, representatives of Children with Cancer UK gave evidence at a hearing of the parliamentary petitions committee, helping to ...

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Launching Precision Medicine at the House of Commons

On Wednesday 29th March 2017, we launched our ground-breaking Precision Medicine project at the House of Commons. We announced funding ...

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Precision medicine for childhood cancer

Our recent conference, Childhood Cancer 2016, provided a forum for scientists and clinicians to discuss advances in the treatment of ...

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Research Stories – Why do children’s cancers need their own research?

Professor David Walker is a paediatric oncologist and works at the University of Nottingham and in Queen’s Medical Centre Hospital ...

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Research Stories – Our brain tumour workshop

In February 2016, we gathered a group of eminent scientists and clinicians for a workshop focused on the treatment of childhood ...

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