Projects funded from October 2005
Location: University of Torino, Italy
Project Title: Role of the GTPase Rab5 in the maintenance of centrosome cohesion & in spindle assembly
Funds Awarded: £26,500
Location: University College London, England
Project Title: a-fetoprotein specific TGF-B producing regulatory T cells; their role in modulation of immune responses & tumour invasiveness
Funds Awarded: £137,131
Location: University of East Anglia, England
Project Title: Novel roles for deubiquitination in the Smad/TGFB signalling pathway
Funds Awarded: £122,787
Location: University of Glasgow, Scotland
Project Title: Role of syntaxin 6 in cytokinesis
Funds Awarded: £79,275
Location: Tel Aviv University, Israel
Project Title: Replication clamp loaders & genetic instability
Funds Awarded: £95,442
Location: University of Glasgow, Scotland
Project Title: The E5 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus type 16 down - regulates the major histocompatibility class I complex
Funds Awarded: £135,323
Location: Queen Mary University of London, England
Project Title: Targeting CXCR4 & its ligand in ovarian cancer
Funds Awarded: £201,042
Location: University of Dundee, Scotland
Project Title: Regulation of p53 induction through transcription factor TAF1- mediated control of Mdm2
Funds Awarded: £77,420
Location: Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Project Title: Analysis of Bmf, a pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member, in cell death & tumorigenesis
Funds Awarded: £178,375
Location: University of Cambridge, England
Project Title: Elucidation of the oncogenic potential of Fbxo7 in hematopoietic malignancies
Funds Awarded: £165,611
Location: Pennsylvania State University, USA
Project Title: Interaction of MLL (mixed Lineage Leukemia Factor) & related SET-domain proteins with active chromatin structures
Funds Awarded: £131,515
Location: University of Marburg, Germany
Project Title: systematic identification of critical Myc target genes & genes that are synthetic lethal with deregulated Myc
Funds Awarded: £163,748
Location: University of Leeds, England
Project Title: A chromosomal translocation mimic for a Ewing's sarcoma model
Funds Awarded: £163,395
Location: University of Cambridge, England
Project Title: Genes required for Notch-induced over-proliferation
Funds Awarded: £82,555
Location: Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Project Title: Rad17 at the crossroads of cell cycle checkpoints, DNA repair & mutagenesis in mammals?
Funds Awarded: £166,737
Location: Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
Project Title: The carcinogenicity of DNA damage produced by the immunosuppressant Azathioprine combined with UVA
Funds Awarded: £133,174
Location: University of Firenze, Italy
Project Title: Study of the role of hERG K+ channels in tumour progression of colorectal cancer
Funds Awarded: £123,000
Location: University of Torino, Italy
Project Title: Genetic and functional analysis of MLK4 in human cancer
Funds Awarded: £105,277
Location: IFOM, Italy
Project Title: RECQ helicases & genome intergrity: dissecting the function of Sgs1/BLM sumoylation in counteracting genotoxic recombination events during chromosome replication
Funds Awarded: £107,940
Location: IFOM, Italy
Project Title: The role of Ras in the induction of genome instability by aberrant DNA-replication
Funds Awarded: £90,011
Location: University College London, England
Project Title: Regulation of Rho signalling & epithlial proliferation by GEH-H1/Lfc
Funds Awarded: £147,568
Location: University of Nottingham, England
Project Title: Role of MOZ & MOZ-TIF2 in the pathogenesis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Funds Awarded: £152,504
Location: Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
Project Title: Cytoskeletal regulation of cell-cell adhesion in oncogenic transformation
Funds Awarded: £155,320
Location: University of London, England
Project Title: Tagetting telomerase: Design synthesis & evaluation of analogues of the G-quadruplex stabilising natural product-telomestatin
Funds Awarded: £135,743
Location: Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, Scotland
Project Title: Identification of novel FERM domain binding partners & their role in cell motility & invasion
Funds Awarded: £138,388
Location: VIB-Ghent University, Belgium
Project Title: EMT inducers driving malignant tumour progression by regulating angiogenesis & epithelial dedifferentiation
Funds Awarded: £126,428
Location: University of Vienna, Austria
Project Title: Role of B-Raf & Raf-1 in angiogenesis
Funds Awarded: £164,100
Location: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, England
Project Title: Investigating Bcl-2 and PP1 interactions to the ASPP family of proteins & their role in regulating apoptotic response
Funds Awarded: £151,994
Location: University of Cambridge, England
Project Title: The role of protein-DNA interactions in maintenance of imprinting at the Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 locus
Funds Awarded: £141,591
Location: University of Bradford, England
Project Title: Synthesis & evaluation of unnatural carbohydrates as potential anti-metastatic agents
Funds Awarded: £141,277
Location: Cardiff University, Wales
Project Title: In vivo analysis of the therapeutic & prophylactic potential of PARP inhibition
Funds Awarded: £223,313
Location: University of Basel, Switzerland
Project Title: Functional analysis of Tenascin-C & Tenascin-W in breast cancer mouse models
Funds Awarded: £130,269
Location: University of Dundee, Scotland
Project Title: Functional/mechanistic analysis & role in tumour development of the DEAD box protein p68, a novel transcriptional co-activator of the p53 tumour suppressor
Funds Awarded: £167,454
Location: Beatson Institute of Cancer Research, Glasgow, Scotland
Project Title: The role of GSK-3 in intestinal development, differentiation & tumourigenesis
Funds Awarded: £129,272
Location: Institute of Human Genetics, Newastle, England
Project Title: Identification & characterisation of pre-mRNA splicing changes associated with the switch between hormone insensitive & sensitive prostate cancer
Funds Awarded: £118,737
Location: The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Project Title: The putative role of proteolysis-inducing factor in prostate cancer
Funds Awarded: £100,005
Location: University of Parma, Italy
Project Title: A new animal model for prostate cancer: addressing the role of clusterin in tumor progression
Funds Awarded: £90,018
Location: University of Helsinki, Finland
Project Title: Homebox transcription factor PROX1 in colorectal cancer and intestinal epithelial cell renewal
Funds Awarded: £137, 904
Location: Fondazione Centre San Raffaele del Monte Tabour, Italy
Project Title: The role of RACK1-kinase transduction on cancer ribosomes: identification of pharmacological targets
Funds Awarded: £66,800
