Author: Piers Townley

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020 has just been awarded to two female scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, for their work on developing the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique.

The three sisters launched their company inspired by their mum’s brain tumour diagnosis

This Sunday, Dr David Jones will be swapping his lab coat for a charity running vest and taking on the virtual Virgin Money London Marathon

Our supporter, Caroline Smyth, is helping us raise vital awareness during National Eye Health Week 21-27 September

Berrie and Graham lost their son Michael to an aggressive brain tumour in 2000, aged just 14 years old.

The prestigious nominations include Volunteer Team–Young Ambassadors, and our Chair of Trustees, Jack Morris

We are working with Kirsten Oswald, MP for East Renfrewshire & SNP Westminster Deputy Leader

It was announced on Friday that BRIAN has been nominated for the ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award

We’re encouraging everyone in our community to ‘walk it your way’ this October to mark the month of our annual flagship fundraising event – The Twilight Walk.

The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) is calling for focus, prioritisation and investment in order to speed up the detection and diagnosis of the UK’s deadliest cancers.

For one week only, from midday on Tuesday 18 August, your donations can be doubled – meaning your gift will have twice the impact on our efforts to get research in the lab back on track.

As a key member of the LSCT, we met with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy Team for a virtual roundtable on Monday 6 July

The Q&A will be held in BRIAN, our online app for people affected by a brain tumour. It’s free to attend and easy to sign up.

Several high profile stories and a grandmother’s petition reaches this week’s PMQs and brain tumours are scheduled for a parliamentary debate

Today we launch our virtual gaming fundraising campaign

Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 which has seen demand for support services soar, the merger is the latest move towards consolidation in a sector historically populated with small charities, many of them founder-led.

The ongoing pandemic has hit our community of people affected by a brain tumour diagnosis hard.

Many things are uncertain right now, but our commitment to research isn’t one of them.

The recent National Cancer Patient Experience Survey highlighted, once again, that those diagnosed with a brain tumour have one of the worst experiences of all cancer patients.

Fiona started the petition to call the Government to tackle hard to treat childhood cancers after her grandson died from a brain tumour.

We’ve a limited stock of our iconic bandanas up for grabs to repurpose into COVID-19 facemasks.

The Brain Tumour Charity is curating and facilitating a series of 60-minute webinars for researchers. The webinars feature experts in the brain tumour field speaking on a wide range of current topics.

Last Monday we met with our partners in the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT), in preparation for a virtual roundtable with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy team next week.

Award-winning graphic designer’s ‘100 Stories’ podcast features Hal.