October 2007

Projects funded from October 2007

Location:  Indian Institute of Science, India
Project Title:  Structural and functional studies of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins for developing novel IGF-antagonist based cancer therapeutics
Funds Awarded: £54,025

Location:  Flanders Interuniversity, Belgium
Project Title:  Targeting modifiers of the p53 tumor suppressor pathway as a new avenue for cancer therapy
Funds Awarded: £140,789

Location:  University of Southampton, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Enhancing the immunogenicity of apoptotic tumour cells by masking phosphatidylserine recognition
Funds Awarded: £175,781

Location:  University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title:  Gene-Environment Interactions in Melanoma Development
Funds Awarded: £184,138

Location:  The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Project Title:  Centrosome overduplication and HTLV-1 leukemogenesis
Funds Awarded: £145,021

Location: University of Southampton, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Role of transcriptional control of HDMX expression in the regulation of the p53-dependent stress-response
Funds Awarded: £147,187

Location:  Beatson Institute for Cancer  Research, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title:  Invadopodia: degrading and protruding machinery working together to promote cancer metastasis
Funds Awarded: £148,142

Location:  Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Project Title:  Genetic programs associated with enhanced effector function and survival of anti-tumour CTLs
Funds Awarded: £180,700

Location:  University of Durham, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Investigation of the roles of lamin A/C and LAP2alpha in cell cycle progression and checkpoint control
Funds Awarded: £195,551

Location:  University of Dundee, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title:  FKBP25: a novel regulator of the p53 pathway that promotes degradation of MDM2
Funds Awarded: £84,556

Location:  Leeds University, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  IRF4 and BLIMP1: defining a complex transcriptional switch in B-cell differentiation deregulated in lymphomagenesis
Funds Awarded: £158,558

Location:  CNRS, France
Project Title:  Genetic modifiers of cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers: study of the effect of sequence variants in the genes involved in the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway
Funds Awarded: £103,226

Location:  University of Torino, Italy
Project Title:  Role of p130Cas adaptor in estrogen receptor and Her2-Neu-mediated tumorigenesis
Funds Awarded: £112,500

Location:  Fondazione Santa Lucia, Italy
Project Title:  Role of Caspase-8 tyrosine phosphorylation by Src kinases in tumour progression  and in tumor resistance to apotosis
Funds Awarded: £52,818

Location:  Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
Project Title:  Analysis of alternative pathway activated by replication stress in the cancer-prone disease Werner syndrome: implications for a non-toxic therapy of cancer with specific defects in replication fork re
Funds Awarded: £128,526

Location:  CNRS, France
Project Title:  Regulation of the p53 family member, p63, by E4F1: Role in the renewal and transformation of stratified epithelia
Funds Awarded: £111,903

Location:  University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Extending Epstein-Barr virus tropism by transfer infection: mechanism, range and pathogenetic significance of viral transfer from the B cell surface.
Funds Awarded: £171,754

Location:  University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Identification of an inherited Wilms' tumour gene
Funds Awarded: £98,951

Location:  Technical University Munich, Germany
Project Title:  Development of IPMN lesions in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer
Funds Awarded: £128,518

Location:  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Project Title:  Molecular characterization of the tumour suppressive properties of mammalian Scribble
Funds Awarded: £134,640

Location:  BSRC  Alexander Fleming, Greece
Project Title:  The role of the post-transcriptional regulator HuR in  neoplastic transformation and inflammatory modulation of intestinal cancers
Funds Awarded: £89,443

Location:  University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Project Title:  Identification of metastasis genes activated by oncogenic  Kras(G12D)
Funds Awarded: £120,295

Location:  Centre de Regulacio Genomica, Spain
Project Title:  Function of oncogene / tumor suppressor gene products DEK, EWS and LUCA-15 in pre-mRNA splicing regulation
Funds Awarded: £112,103

Location:  ACS Inserm Paris V Sainte Anne, France
Project Title:  The immune response against dying tumour cells. The implication of TLR4
Funds Awarded: £101,939

Location:  University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Project Title:  The impact of human Regulatory T cells on the Graft versus Tumor effect
Funds Awarded: £155,579

Location:  Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Project Title:  Genome-wide insertional mutagenesis screens to identify cancer genes that collaborate with E-cadherin loss in mammary tumourigenesis
Funds Awarded: £176,848

Location:  Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Regulation of Apoptosome Assembly
Funds Awarded: £174,253

Location:  Institut Pasteur, France
Project Title:  Role of the SUMO Pathway in the Maintenance of Genomic Integrity
Funds Awarded: £92,025

Location:  University of Bristol, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Alternative splice forms of VEGF in cancer – possible value in anti-VEGF therapy.
Funds Awarded: £158,904

Location:  The International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
Project Title:  Influence of TP53 gene status on the response of breast cancers to anti-hormone therapy
Funds Awarded: £125,300

Location:  Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Project Title:  Clinical significance of microRNAs in breast cancer
Funds Awarded: £131,428

Location:  Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Project Title:  Inhibition of action of Bag-1L as a measure of preventing prostate cancer development and metastasis
Funds Awarded: £155,509

Location:  Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
Project Title:  Elucidating the importance of cancer cell-derived interleukin-8 in potentiating the bony metastasis of prostate cancer
Funds Awarded: £159,494

Location:  University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  The Role of Histone Methyltransferase and Demethylase Enzymes in Androgen Receptor Regulation and Prostate Cancer.
Funds Awarded: £163,001

Location:  University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title:  Regulation of cancer cell proliferation by the nuclear receptor corepressor Ccr4-Not
Funds Awarded: £147,333

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