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Stem cell transplant research breakthrough gives hope to those with blood cancer
Birmingham researchers identified a target to reduce the risk of graft-versus-host-disease post stem cell transplant
- Published: 28 November 2024
Salmonella discovery offers new hope for bowel cancer therapies
A new discovery by Cancer Research UK-funded researchers in Birmingham and Glasgow brings us a step closer to using Salmonella to fight bowel cancer.
- Published: 19 November 2024
New funding to better understand causes of rare cancers and their responses to targeted therapy
A recent Experimental Medicine Award will allow researchers to learn more about the genetic and epigenetic causes of cancer, through an existing trial.
- Published: 23 September 2024
Using vaccine developments accelerated by the pandemic to treat cancer
Dr Shivan Sivakumar explains how mRNA vaccines help us treat cancer, as we open Europe’s first site for pancreatic cancer vaccine trial.
- Published: 12 September 2024
Birmingham opens first pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine trial in Europe
University of Birmingham research is leading the way in pancreatic cancer vaccine trials.
- Published: 12 September 2024
Global health expertise is deployed to support the control of Mpox disease in Africa
Experts in infectious diseases, immune diagnostics and vaccines who have been working in Rwanda for years and will now engage on the needs of disease outbreak.
- Published: 2 September 2024
Predicting and reducing the risk of vulval cancer
New funding will allow Birmingham researchers to better predict which genetic alterations increase the risk of vulval cancer.
- Published: 19 August 2024
How have fungal pathogens evolved immune evasion strategies to aid their survival in the host?
Newly funded research will help identify new drug targets by improving understanding of how the fungal pathogen Candida albicans subverts immune response.
- Published: 9 August 2024