Category: Research

Donations made in memory of Emily, who died from the most aggressive form of childhood cancer, will fund research aimed at improving survival rates for the disease.

A new nanosurgical tool – about 500 times thinner than a human hair – could help us understand how glioblastomas become resistant to radio- and chemotherapy. Up until now, no other technology has been able to do this.

In 2019, we awarded £2.96 million to Professor Neil Carragher in collaboration with Cancer Research UK as part of £6 million of funding for vital research into glioblastoma.

Dr Veronica Rendo, a researcher funded by The Brain Tumour Charity, shared the findings of her work at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.

We are pleased to announce that The Brain Tumour Charity has joined the Cancer Tech Accelerator 3.0 as a new funding partner!

Recent research suggests that there could be a new treatment on the horizon for some children diagnosed with low and high-grade gliomas.

Two of our funded researchers have won awards at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual conference!

Natalie McKenna-Mounty was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2020, her tumour returned in June this year, and now she is supporting our new research funding to find better glioblastoma treatments.

We are pleased to announce the two researchers who have been awarded the Junior Fellowship grant – the second award in our Future Leaders programme!

The Be More Laura Foundation has donated to The Brain Tumour Charity £25,000 to help fund our pioneering ARISTOCRAT clinical trial in memory of Laura Nuttall.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield ran the Sheffield 10K on 24th September to raise money for us, a charity close to their hearts.

This Black History Month we’re examining ways The Brain Tumour Charity can help work towards making participation in medical research more inclusive.

Researchers involved in the Tessa Jowell BRAIN MATRIX study are calling for improvements to speed up the way brain tumours are diagnosed.

We are pleased to announce that we have awarded £4.5 million to three new, exciting research initiatives.

Experts at University College London, Queen Mary University of London and Great Ormond Street Hospital are to develop pioneering treatments for children diagnosed with low-grade brain tumours.

Whole genome sequencing is the scientific term used when scientists sequence DNA.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham are paving the way to improve brain tumour treatment in a revolutionary study which collects detailed information about a person’s tumour.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified a biomarker that can predict how aggressive meningiomas may be in those diagnosed with this type of brain tumour.

A major UK clinical trial of an oral spray containing cannabinoids to treat the most aggressive brain tumour has opened at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester.

Ben Johnson, 24, from Islington, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in November 2019, after suffering a seizure while at university in London.

We’re proud to announce the latest recipients of our Future Leaders grants that’ve been awarded for their innovative new research projects.

Experts at The Everest Centre are delivering a cutting-edge program of scientific research to develop pioneering new treatments for children diagnosed with low-grade brain tumours, following major new funding from The Brain Tumour Charity.

Offering coaching to promote healthy lifestyles could help reduce severe fatigue for patients following brain tumour treatment, a clinical trial has found.

The government have signed an agreement with German pharmaceutical company BioNTech to ensure their innovative vaccine research comes to England.