In a piece to mark Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Diana Martins Carvalho reflects on the vital support of families who generously donate tissue samples and funds that enable her research into childhood brain tumours. Diana is a post-doctoral training fellow in Professor Chris Jones' lab at the Institute for Cancer Research (ICR). M4K Pharma [...]
Our collaborator Dr Chris Jones and his fantastic team at The Institute of Cancer Research were profiled in The Observer for their work on DIPG with support from Abbie's Army. M4K Pharma is proud to be working with them to bring an affordable DIPG cure to patients.
Poster award for CRL and M4K open science collaboration Congratulations to Senior Scientist Stefano Levanto from Charles River Laboratories (CRL) on winning the early career poster prize for his poster describing CRL's open science collaboration with M4K Pharma at the 20th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Cambridge, UK last month. A team of CRL medicinal chemists [...]
SGC-Oxford team comes out in support of Brain Tumour Charity's Twilight Walk On September 29th 2019, the Brain Tumour Charity organized The Twilight Walk in Warwick, UK, to raise funds for research and patient support. M4K Pharma's DIPG project collaborators at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC)- University of Oxford took part in the event by [...]
M4K Pharma's scientific team of collaborators and partners meets online once a month to present the latest progress in the ALK2 project for DIPG. We will be meeting on the following dates from 10am-12pm EST: June 12th, 2019 July 3rd, 2019 August 7th, 2019 September 4th, 2019 October 2nd, 2019 November 6th, 2019 December 4th, [...]
Recording of M4K Pharma's Scientific Update Meeting - December 4th, 2018 Listen to our scientists and collaborators discuss the latest progress in M4K Pharma's quest for a medicine for DIPG- a deadly children's brain cancer. In this meeting, the team provides a comprehensive summary of the project accomplishments at the one year [...]
Recording of M4K Pharma's Scientific Update Meeting - November 6th, 2018. Listen to our scientists and collaborators discuss the latest progress in M4K Pharma's quest for a medicine for DIPG- a deadly children's brain cancer. Everyone is invited to dial-in and join the live meetings. To find out when our next meeting will be, follow [...]
Recording of M4K Pharma's Scientific Update Meeting - July 18th, 2018. Listen to our scientists and collaborators discuss the latest progress in M4K Pharma's quest for a medicine for DIPG- a deadly children's brain cancer. Everyone is invited to dial-in and join the live meetings. To find out when our next meeting will be, follow [...]
M4K Pharma's Lemon Face Challenge for DIPG Watch the M4K team in Toronto complete the #LemonFaceChallenge to spread DIPG awareness, along with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR). Charles River Laboratories met our challenge to them with their own lemon faces in this video here: https://twitter.com/hamblin_nicole/status/989234916872327170 [...]
Video recording of M4K's March Scientific Update meeting! Listen to M4K Pharma's virtual Scientific Update Meeting from March 7th, 2018 where our scientists and collaborators discussed the latest progress in M4K's Medicines4Kids project for diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG). Everyone is invited to see the chemistry first-hand! https://youtu.be/Ip-2QVhmhZc
