Our research projects

Investigating whether diet or lifestyle changes could help children cope with bone marrow transplants better.

Learning more about leukaemia cells in order to design targeted treatments that can increase survivorship and quality of life.

Developing a test that can measure the amount of chemotherapy-resistant leukaemia cells in patient's blood samples. This would provide the foundations for future research.

Looking at whether a pre-existing drug could be an effective and safe treatment due to its ability to target cancer cells directly.

Ependymoma comes back after treatment around half of the time, because some cancer cells are still alive. If doctors could identify these cells and diagnose relapsed ependymoma sooner, children could start treatment earlier.

Investigating how different levels short non-coding RNAs affect germ cell tumour cells, and testing whether medicines altering these levels could be a potential treatment.

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.

Discovering what causes nerve cells to stop working and die years after a Langerhans cell histiocytosis diagnosis.

Looking for repurposed treatments that can fight leukaemia cells in very young children.