We now spend around £1 million each year on research. Since the charity was established in 1996, we have supported over 50 high quality, peer reviewed medical research projects at leading institutions across the UK with funding in excess of £6 million.
We have also opened our first dedicated research centre of excellence at University College London at a cost of £1,667,511 over five years. The Samantha Dickson Brain Cancer Unit is housed in the UCL Cancer Institute, a state-of-the-art facility incorporating the most advanced technologies, forming part of the largest biomedical research centre in Europe.
Projects cover all brain tumour types and aspects of research and aim to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours. You can see all our current projects listed here.
Just a few examples are:
The Pathways Project: developing guidelines to aid early diagnosis of childhood brain tumours
Professor David Walker, University of Nottingham
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Studying the role of environmental factors in the causes of brain tumours in children and young people
Professor Patricia McKinney and Professor Jillian Birch, Universities of Leeds and Manchester
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Analysing the role of ‘MYCN’ in medulloblastoma
Dr Louis Chesler, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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A Phase II trial of 5-ALA with Gliadel® for glioblastoma in adults
Dr Colin Watts, University of Cambridge
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Developing a neuropsychological follow-up service for survivors of childhood brain tumours
Dr Ingram Wright, North Bristol NHS Trust
To find out about the many other projects we fund, see our research programme here.