Cris Team visited The Institute of Cancer Research (Sutton Branch) and attended an interesting presentation, held by Profesor Chris Jones, followed by a lab tour learning about childhood brain cancer.
One of latest project funded by CRIS Cancer Foundation is this ICR Children Brain Tomours leaded by Profesor Chris Jones who welcomed CRIS team to explained in detail about his new discoveries.
Professor Jones is hugely motivated by the fact that there is an unmet clinical need for children with high-grade gliomas.
Sadly, with no effective treatments, children with these terrible tumours have some of the worst survival rates of cancer. Recently it has become clear that these tumours have completely different biology to tumours in adults. Therefore, we need to create new treatment designed specifically for their unique biology.
Projects in Professor Jones’ Lab are supported by CRIS, other charities and parents who have tragically lost children to high-grade gliomas, and are bringing together scientists and clinicians from across Europe to collect samples from as many rare glioma tumours as possible. At ICR, Professor Jones and his team can study the genetic make-up of these tumours and help to identify new durable targets.
“It is crucial that we collaborate with other groups across the globe so that our collective progress can allow other families to avoid such a tragedy” he said.
“Our understanding of childhood brain cancer is rapidly improving thanks to unique collaborations”, he also added.
CRIS is really proud for helping on support this oncology project and helping on moving forward on the fight against cancer.