Information and impact

Your support helped Professor Kevin Hiom discover a new gene which was involved in the development of a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia.

Your support helped a drug for type 2 diabetes be tested in over 100 clinical trials for treatment and prevention of cancer. 

You helped fund research that allowed scientists to grow mini tumour organoids in the lab from a patient’s own cancer cells to study the disease and personalise treatment.

A research project you helped fund in 2013 allowed Dr Laura Soucek to develop a new treatment called omomyc, and prove that it was ready for clinical trials.

Our research helped to discover a pioneering new treatment called photodynamic therapy which can cure cancer if it's caught early enough. 

Your support helped Professor Mark Cragg discover how drugs could be used to target and destroy cancer cells and helped develop new blood cancer treatments.

Your support in 2005 has helped launch clinical trials testing a promising new treatment option for people with bowel cancer. 

How do we know that what we are doing works? We explore the average return on investment of our research funding. 

With your support Dr John Maher's impact on cancer research has led to the development of a brand new type of immunotherapy that is now in clinical trials.