October 2008

Projects funded from October 2008

Institution:  Children's Medical Research Institute, Wentworthville, Australia
Project Title: Involvement of the protein dyskerin in telomerase-mediated immortalisation of human cancer cells
Grant Award: £131,955

Institution:  Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Project Title: Development of novel glycosly- and sialyl-nucleosides as inhibitors of cancer cell surface sialylation
Grant Award: £184,646

Institution:  Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Project Title: Cross-talk between cytokine and pathogen recognition receptor networks in the pathogenesis of gastric cancer
Grant Award: £162,950

Institution:  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia
Project Title: Can the immune system and tumour be in a state of equilibrium?
Grant Award: £183,182

Institution:  Turku University, Finland
Project Title: Regulation and function of CIP2A in cancer progression
Grant Award: £113,880

Institution:  University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Project Title: Genetic and molecular analysis of Chk1 functions in the mitotic spindle checkpoint and cytokinesis
Grant Award: £118,000

Institution:  Tel Aviv University, Israel
Project Title: Restoration of wild-type APC in colorectal cancer cells
Grant Award: £172,300

Institution:  Institute for Cancer Research & Treatment, Turin, Italy
Project Title: Identification of a novel Rab5-based signalling pathway in centrosome cohesion
Grant Award: £59,000

Institution:  Institute of Experimental Neuroscience, Fosso di Fiorano, Italy
Project Title: Role of the RNA-binding protein Sam68 in prostate cancer call proliferation and survival
Grant Award: £86,358

Institution:  Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
Project Title: Targeting the Ndc80 kinetochore subcomplex for cancer inhibitors
Grant Award: £82,044

Institution:  Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy
Project Title: Rai/Shc C function in GBM stem cells
Grant Award: £110,412

Institution:  Venetian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
Project Title: Arginase 1 in cancer progression and tumor immune escape
Grant Award: £138,000

Institution:  Institut d'Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Llobregat, Spain
Project Title: Identification of apoptosis-related oncogenes and tumor suppressos through an evolutionary context-based approach
Grant Award: £123,850

Institution:  Imperial College London, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Cooperation between pericellular and intracellular collagen degredation pathways during prostate cancer invasion
Grant Award: £153,745

Institution:  Kings College London, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Development of immunotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN) using ErbB retargeted T-lymphocytes
Grant Award: £168,255

Institution:  Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Investigating myoepithelial cell regulation of angiogenesis trhough avB6 signalling in DCIS
Grant Award: £183,427

Institution:  University of Bristol, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Deleted in breast cancer (DBC2) and chemokine production in squamous cell carcinoma
Grant Award: £157,757

Institution:  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Analysis of the role of Cdc20 in APC/C-dependent proteolysis in mitosis
Grant Award: £141,324

Institution:  University of Leicester, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Investigation of the role of nuclear BRAF in cancer
Grant Award: £173,195

Institution:  University of London, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Design and Synthesis of novel Epigenetic Therapeutic Agents
Grant Award: £107,089

Institution:  University of Oxford, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Molecular mechanisms of Runx mediated tumour formation in C. elegans
Grant Award: £157,366
Institution:  University of Southampton, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Role of the pro-survival molecule A1 in melanoma
Grant Award: £101,528

Institution:  University of Bristol, United Kingdom (England)
Project Title: Integration of the activity and function of the non-canonicial NF-kB pathway with checkpoint kinase signalling
Grant Award: £108,997

Institution:  University of Dundee, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title: Defining the role of PTEN in the regulation of epithelial cell polarity
Grant Award: £156,420

Institution:  University of Dundee, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title: The role of the protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor delta (PTPRD) gene in squamous cell skin cancers
Grant Award: £157,436

Institution:  University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title: Establishing a mouse model to study extragonadal teratomas
Grant Award: £165,032

Institution:  University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title: The role of Runx2 in mammary development and breast cancer
Grant Award: £202,656

Institution:  University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Scotland)
Project Title: Is phosphorylation of the androgen receptor of clincial significance in the development and progression of prostate cancer?
Grant Award: £71,415

 

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