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The following researchers are offering projects for prospective China Fellow candidates:
- Utilising next generation sequencing approaches to study drug resistance and tumour evolution
Alan Ashworth, Institute of Cancer Research
Cancer type - Breast cancer - Integration of the use of circulating biomarkers of response and molecular characterization of tumours to improve patient care
Udai Banerji and Stan Kaye, Institute of Cancer Research
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - Molecular inhibition of androgen signalling in prostate cancer
Charlotte Bevan and Greg Brooke, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Prostate cancer - Genetic modification of T cells to function in tolerogenic tumour environment
Jian-Guo Chai, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - Characterisation of the functionality of dendritic cells in ovarian tumour patients
Sandra Diebold, King's College LondoN
Cancer type - Ovarian cancer - The transcriptional regulation of specific miRNAs and their targets in ovarian and chemo-resistant cancers
Hani Gabra and Justin Stebbing, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Breast cancer - Role of PI3K/FOXO/FOXM signalling axis in mediating sensitivity and resistance to endocrine and chemotherapy in breast cancer
Eric W-F Lam, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Breast cancer - Structural basis of retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein regulation and functioning
Sibylle Mittnacht, Edward Morris and Laurence Pearl, Institute of Cancer Research
Cancer type - Retinoblastoma - Synthesis and chemical biology of novel telomeric quadruplex targeting agents
Stephen Neidle, School of Pharmacy
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - A combined intravital fluorescence lifetime imaging/ mass spectrometry approach to understand the CXCR4 signalosome in cancers
Tony Ng, Qingbo Xu and Lingfan Zeng, King's College London
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - The mechanism of protein kinase activation by the HSP90 molecular chaperone system
Laurence Pearl, Institute of Cancer Research
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - Role of ADCK family members in non-small cell lung cancer cell motility and invasion
Michael J Seckl and Olivier E Pardo, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Lung cancer - Use and development of novel analytical methodologies and chemical probes to investigate tertiary DNA structures
David Thurston, School of Pharmacy
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - Functionalisation and proteomics analysis of cancer chemopreventive agents for molecular target identification
Geoff Wells, School of Pharmacy
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer - Control of drug resistance in breast cancer cells by micro RNAs
Ernesto Yagüe and Charles Coombes, Imperial College London
Cancer type - Relevant to all types of cancer
