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Making progress through collaboration

We believe that through collaboration we can make this biggest impact for patients.

  • PBCMetNet

    Primary Bone Cancer Metastasis Network (PBCMetNet) is a basic science and pre-clinical…

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In this section Research

  • Research Strategy & Grant Programme
  • For Researchers
  • Association of Medical Research Charities
  • Useful documents for researchers
  • The Independent Scientific Advisory Panel
  • Patient and Public Involvement Panel
  • Research Impact Report 2023
  • 15 Years of Research — Working Towards a Cure
  • Publications
  • How we fund Research
  • Current Research Projects
    • Identifying biomarkers for treatment response in Ewing sarcoma
    • A novel therapeutic strategy for bone sarcoma treatment
    • Investigating individual cells to understand the key genetic changes leading to mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
    • Optimising the treatment of Teenagers and Young Adults with Ewing sarcoma
    • International collaboration to optimise the management of patients with Ewing sarcoma
    • Supporting rEECur – a clinical trial for recurrent and primary refractory Ewing sarcoma
    • Developing novel biomaterials for osteosarcoma and chordoma treatment
    • Evaluating the therapeutic potential of drugs that destroy dormant chordoma cells
    • Novel immunotherapy approach against osteosarcoma
    • Stopping the alpha - a potential new treatment approach for osteosarcoma
    • Mimicking the journey through the bloodstream: exploring how osteosarcoma cells spread and survive elsewhere in the body
    • Towards precision medicine in Osteosarcoma
    • Sensitising osteosarcoma to immunotherapy
    • Developing an effective CAR T cell therapy for osteosarcoma
    • Advancing the ICONIC trial: Improving outcomes through Collaboration in Osteosarcoma
    • In-depth protein analysis to identify tailored treatments for chondrosarcoma patients
    • Kinder drugs to treat osteosarcoma
    • Understanding osteosarcoma chemotherapy resistance
    • Searching for new drugs to treat osteosarcoma
    • Unravelling the diversity of bone tumours: investigating the differences between single cancer cells.
    • The impact of spine sarcoma on psychological wellbeing: an exploratory study
    • Collecting patient samples for research
    • Advancing technology for image guided surgery in bone sarcoma
  • Completed Research Projects
    • A potential new non-invasive biomarker for chordoma
    • Exploring a new drug target to develop novel combination treatments for Chondrosarcoma
  • Ewing Sarcoma Meetings 2025
    • The Euro Ewing Consortium Network Meeting and Advances in Ewing Sarcoma Research 2025
  • Past research events
  • Making progress through collaboration
    • PBCMetNet
  • Pharmaceutical Policy
  • Animal Research Policy

Patient stories

To try and help, a number of families have kindly shared their personal experiences.

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