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    Bone Cancer Conference 2024

    About the event The Bone Cancer Conference 2024 gathers leading guest speakers to share news of the latest developments in…

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    PROTECT: Developing new cancer treatments for children

    PROTECT: Developing new cancer treatments for children  A £20 million international project to develop novel cancer treatments for children. Overview…

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    Charities join forces to transform treatment for children with cancer

    A pioneering initiative to develop new medicines exclusively for children’s and young people’s cancers, has been launched LifeArc and Cancer…

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  • CureSearch: A global partnership to combat childhood brain cancer

    CureSearch: A global partnership to combat childhood brain cancer We have partnered with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and the…

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    Childhood Cancer Translational Challenge Launch

    About the event LifeArc is committed to addressing some of the key translational research gaps in childhood cancer, which is…

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    News releases

    Hope for children with cancer: LifeArc and CureSearch fund research into whether a modified cold sore virus, combined with a vaccine, could cure brain cancer

    A team of scientists in America and the UK are combining a genetically modified cold sore virus with a cancer…

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    LifeArc Philanthropic fund

    Funding: LifeArc philanthropic fund The Fund provides grants and funding to academic researchers working to advance new treatments and diagnostics…

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  • Black background with text: Announcing team PROTECT as one of five new global Cancer Grand Challenges teams. PROTECT will be awarded up to $25m over five years to tkae on the Solid tumours in children challenges. Logo of Cancer Grand Challenges and Cancer Research UK and National Cancer Institute in top right corner.
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    LifeArc joins £20m international project to develop novel cancer treatment for children

    LifeArc is investing up to £4.9 million to bolster a joint international project to create new cancer therapies specifically for…

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    LifeArc welcomes new lead and chair to head its Childhood Cancer Translational Challenge

    LifeArc welcomes the arrival of a new Translational Challenge Lead, Dr David Jenkinson, and Chair, Professor Andy Pearson, who will…

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  • Childhood cancers: smaller charities campaigning for new treatments

    The genetic abnormalities that lead to cancer can occur at any age. Cancer is the major cause of death by…

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