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Birmingham researchers receive funding to develop new drugs to block leukaemia growth
Funding will allow Birmingham researchers to develop new drugs to improve outcomes for children with leukaemia.
- Published: 21 January 2026
Adding antibody treatment to chemo boosts outcomes for children with rare cancer
Phase two trial finds improved survival time among children who have neuroblastoma that comes back or doesn’t respond to usual treatment
- Published: 12 December 2025
Birmingham announces recipients of 2026 Springboard Fellowships
The new recipients of the University’s fellowship scheme will receive support to develop independent research.
- Published: 4 December 2025
Birmingham researchers secure major funding to push frontiers of bioscience discovery
Prestigious grants will fund crucial research into gene regulation and antibiotic resistance.
- Published: 18 November 2025
Adding MRI scanning to bladder cancer diagnostic pathway shown to save lives
Presentation of data at ESMO Congress 2025 shows MRI scanning before usual diagnostic route sped up time to treatment
- Published: 17 October 2025
New way of detecting tumour DNA in urine can identify bladder cancer
Birmingham researchers explored whether long-read whole-genome sequencing could be used to analyse DNA chemistry in urine samples.
- Published: 17 September 2025
First ever measure of boron in individual cancer cells could revolutionise drug understanding
Real-time measurement of boron in live cells explains how drugs travel in and out of tumour cells
- Published: 8 September 2025
West Midlands to pioneer bladder cancer recurrence trials testing novel diagnostic
The test was developed in the University’s bio-incubator, the BioHub Birmingham, and the trials are the culmination of eight years of collaborative research
- Published: 15 August 2025