UK and EU charities in £30 million commitment to cancer projects

21 September 2018

While politicians in the UK and from the European Union (EU) and its other member countries squabble over their divorce bill and terms, cancer charities have shown their ongoing commitment to working collaboratively with a new series of grants totaling £30 million ($39 million).

Cancer Research UK is partnering with two of Europe’s leading cancer research charities, AIRC (Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro) and FC AECC (Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer), to invest in six international collaborations, which are aimed at accelerating progress in translational research.

Scientists in the five-year funded Accelerator Awards projects will investigate the potential of immunotherapies in treating liver cancer, develop manufacturing methods for CAR-T cell production, track cancer cell evolution, investigate drug resistance in blood cancers, devise a blood test for advanced prostate cancer and find new routes for personalizing blood cancer.

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