|  |  | Research News Archive for July - September 2002 |
 | CAMBRIDGE SCIENTISTS LEAD AMBITIOUS NEW GENE PROJECT |
| |  | | Scientists from Cambridge are embarking on an ambitious new project to create an atlas of the thousands of gene changes involved in blood cell development, thanks to a grant of £500,000 from the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF). This work will provide vital information about cancers of the blood - such as leukaemia and lymphoma. | | Release date: 25th September 2002 |  |
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| BRIGHTON'S BIG CASH BOOST FOR RESEARCH INTO DNA |
| |  | | Scientists from the University of Sussex in Brighton have been awarded £147,000 by the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF) to look at abnormalities in DNA damage and repair that occur in some leukaemias and lymphomas. | | Release date: 12th September 2002 | |
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| £1 MILLION BOOST FOR LEUKAEMIA RESEARCHERS IN DUNDEE |
| |  | | So small it is impossible to see with the naked eye - but so long that if magnified to the thickness of a single strand of cotton it would stretch for 60 miles. | | Release date: 10th September 2002 | |
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| SIR WALTER BODMER TAKES ON KEY ROLE AT LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH |
| |  | | Leukaemia Research Fund announced today that Professor Sir Walter Bodmer will succeed Professor Dame Barbara Clayton as Chairman of its Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel next year. Dame Barbara Clayton will retire in June 2003 after 14 years as Chairman. | | Release date: 9th September 2002 | |
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| MANCHESTER SCIENTISTS PILOT NEW LEUKAEMIA TEST |
| |  | | A new test could help to revolutionise the way leukaemia patients are treated by enabling doctors to fine tune treatment to the needs of each individual patient. The test could help doctors across the country predict whether a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is likely to relapse up to six months before it actually happens. | | Release date: 4th September 2002 | |
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| CARDIFF CANS £30,000 FOR RESEARCH INTO LYMPHOMA |
| |  | | Cardiff scientists have been awarded £30,000 by the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF) for research into a virus linked to the cancer lymphoma. | | Release date: 3rd September 2002 | |
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| CASH BOOST FOR OXFORD RESEARCHERS |
| |  | | Scientists at the University of Oxford will be using special technology to carry out vital cancer research, thanks to a grant of £102,000 from the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF). | | Release date: 3rd September 2002 | |
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| NEW TEST BECKONS FOR CHILDHOON LEUKAEMIA |
| |  | | A new screening test to be piloted at five research centres across the UK could help to revolutionise the way children with leukaemia are treated by enabling doctors to fine tune treatment to the needs of each individual patient. | | Release date: 6th August 2002 | |
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