£20m CRUK Grand Challenge Award19 Sep 2018 15:28
Only about 6 weeks until the MULTIPLE winners are announced .
"We are thrilled to be on Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge shortlist: this brings us one step closer to delivering a cancer vaccine template. We believe this approach will facilitate the development of a comprehensive strategy of combinatorial cancer treatment for patients with most types of cancer. Our unique academic-biotech-clinical partnership, facilitating access to reagents and clinical trials, positions us for success in this space."
Professor Lindy Durrant, Principal Investigator
"This research could result in a paradigm shift in the way we treat cancer. If successful, these templates for cancer treatment will allow doctors to easily identify which antigens to target, and then which type of vaccine to use, to create truly bespoke vaccines for each patient. As this type of treatment will be personalised based on each patient’s unique tumour, this could radically improve survival on a global scale."
CRUK 's thoughts :
"The academic-biotech-clinical partnerships in this application are really unique, the different perspectives that each discipline brings makes this team’s proposal comprehensive, innovative and therefore very powerful."