Patients, carers, scientists, clinicians and charities from across the UK gathered last week for the launch of a ground-breaking new partnership between the charity Brain Tumour Research and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in collaboration with the UCL Institute of Neurology.
Together they have established a new brain tumour research Centre of Excellence at QMUL, bringing a welcome and timely boost to long-term, sustainable and continuous research into the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40.
The Centre of Excellence is led
by Professor Silvia Marino, a leading brain tumour scientist and
neuropathologist based at QMUL’s Blizard Institute, and will specialise
in identifying how glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) forms and grows within
the brain with the final aim of identifying more efficient drug
treatments.
Professor Denise Sheer, also from QMUL, and Professor
Sebastian Brandner (Professor and Chair of Neuropathology, UCL Institute of Neurology) and Dr Jeremy Rees (consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology
and Neurosurgery) will be additional important research partners in this initiative.
Brain Tumour Research currently helps fund – through corporate and public fundraising – an annual £1 million programme of research at their Centre of Excellence in the University of Portsmouth. This relationship with QMUL, along with additional new partnerships with Plymouth University and Imperial College in London, will pave the way for a £20 million investment in brain tumour research over the next five years.
Further information:
Brain Tumour Research press release