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Our research projects

Find out more about the research projects you're currently helping us to fund around the country.

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Combining drugs to create a new treatment for follicular lymphoma - Dr Riches

In this project Dr Riches wants to find a new combination of drugs to create a new, more effective treatment for people with this disease.

Headshot of Dr John Riches in the lab wearing his lab coat.

Finding new, and kinder treatments for diffuse large-B cell lymphoma - Professor Franzoso

In this project, Professor Franzoso is looking to understand which people with diffuse large-B cell lymphoma might benefit from a new drug.

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Developing more effective treatments for people with blood cancer - Professor Spencer

In this project Professor Spencer is working to develop new, alternative drug treatments for people with blood cancer.

A researcher puts test tubes containing blood into a rack

Creating a new way to identify alterations that cause ALL in children - Dr Ryan

In this project Dr Sarra Ryan is using new technologies to identify alterations in the DNA of blood cells in children with ALL.

A researcher puts test tubes containing blood into a rack

Understanding more about the causes of myeloma so new screening tools and drugs can be developed

Professor Chris Bunce wants to understand more about the root causes of myeloma so people at an increased risk of this disease can be screened and monitored and new drugs developed.

Professor Chris Bunce stood in the lab smiling.

Understanding key molecules that help myeloma cells to grow in number and thrive

Professor Karadimitris and his team want to understand more about a specific molecule that can cause people with MGUS to go on to develop myeloma.

A male scientist - Professor Karadimitris - poses for a photograph in his lab

A new approach to treating chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)

Professor Helgason is researching a new way to treat CML by combining drug treatments with other treatment methods.

Professor Helgason standing in the lab wearing his lab coat

Understanding how we could make better drug treatments to target acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)

Dr Payne wants to understand more about a specific alteration that causes acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), to help develop new, more effective drug treatments with fewer side effects.

Dr Beth Payne standing in the lab smiling

Finding out how our genetic code might cause myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)

Professor Anderson is studying the DNA (genetic code) of people with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) to understand what might be responsible for causing it.

Professor Lesley Anderson stood up smiling as she is working on her research in the lab.

Developing a new way to treat T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL)

Professor Rabbitts hopes to develop a new treatment for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) with fewer side effects.

Professor Terry Rabbitts sitting in the lab wearing his lab coat

Understanding how plasma cells become cancerous in myeloma

Professor Tooze hopes to understand more about how plasma cells become cancerous.

Professor Tooze sat in his lab smiling with his colleague

A new way of diagnosing and monitoring myeloma

Dr Chan and her team are developing a new technique to diagnose and monitor people with non-measurable myeloma (NMM).

Dr Tracey Chan and Dr Jen Heaney stood in the lab together smiling.

Developing a more effective CAR-T therapy to treat myeloma

Dr Maciocia is researching how to make CAR-T cells last longer so that people with myeloma remain cancer-free.

Dr Paul Maciocia

Creating new ways to prevent the development of myeloid blood cancers

Professor Vassiliou wants to understand how myeloid cancers develop before people start showing any symptoms to create new ways to prevent people developing these blood cancers.

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Developing new drug treatments for mastocytosis - Professor Nerlov

Professor Nerlov wants to develop a new drug that can effectively target and treat mastocytosis.

Professor Claus Nerlov stood in the lab smiling alongside his post-doc student, both are wearing lab coats.

Developing a CAR-T therapy for children with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) - Dr Ghorashian

Dr Ghorashian is researching using CAR-T therapy to develop a safer and more effective way to treat children with MDS who are at risk of their cancer developing into AML.

Dr Sara Ghorashain stood in the lab smiling wearing a Blood Cancer UK lab coat.

Finding new drug treatments that help the body’s immune system to treat myeloma

Dr Dimeloe plans to test drugs used to treat other diseases to see if these can help the body’s immune cells to destroy cancerous myeloma cells.

Dr Sarah Dimeloe stood smiling.

Unlocking a new, less harmful way of treating acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) - Professor Lacaud

Professor Lacaud's research is looking to understand more about the KAT6A protein and how it could be used as a kinder treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

Professor Georges Lacaud stood in the lab smiling.

Finding a less harmful way to treat blood cancers caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)- Professor West

Professor West is conducting research to find a new drug treatment that targets EBV-positive cancer cells.

Michelle, conducting research at Blood Cancer UK.

Researching the role of the KCNJ2 gene in chronic myelomoncytic leukaemia (CMML) - Dr Batta

Dr Batta is researching the role of a specific gene called KCNJ2 and how it causes CMML cancer cells to grow.

Dr Batta stood working in the lab smiling at the camera.