beatson research and development fund

Beatson Cancer Charity awarded £1.36 million in grants via its Beatson Research and Development Fund for medical equipment, infrastructure and research projects.

£53,280 was awarded to The Beatson for funding a Clinical Fellow in Haematology focusing on multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer.

This post will expand the multiple myeloma clinical trial portfolio at The Beatson which will enable myeloma patients to access much needed novel therapies.

The Beatson’s Haematology Team recently won the Myeloma UK Clinical Service Excellence Programme (CSEP) award for the second time.

Dr James Park

£66,950 was awarded to enable Dr James Park, Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon to develop a new surgery and chemotherapy service at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for patients with advanced colorectal and appendix tumours (set to be the first in the west of Scotland). The funding will be used to buy a machine which heats up chemotherapy drugs and pumps them into the abdomen during surgery.

dr park said: “I would like to thank Beatson Cancer Charity for their financial support. The purchase of a hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy machine for the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital will allow us to offer surgery for a group of patients who, until now, have only been able to undergo such treatment in specialist centres in England. Having the opportunity to undergo treatment closer to home will hopefully make this much less stressful for patients and their families.”

A Ukrainian neurosurgeon secured a £30,000 grant for a PhD research project which aims to make photodynamic therapy more effective as a treatment for glioblastoma braintumours.

Professor Anthony Chalmers, Chair of Clinical Oncology at the University of Glasgow, and Dr Paul Brennan, Reader and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Edinburgh, will be supporting and training PhD student and neurosurgeon Dr Nazar Vasyliv from Ukraine, as part of this project. Professor Chalmers professor chalmers said: “This research project will investigate a new form of treatment for glioblastoma and look at ways to make photodynamic therapy more effective as a treatment for this aggressive brain tumour.

“I’d like to thank Beatson Cancer Charity for the support which will give a very promising Ukrainian neurosurgeon the opportunity to complete a 3-year PhD research project.”