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  • A gloved hand using a pipette over a clear cell culture plate in a laboratory, with coloured bottles in the background.

    Lung cancer cells switch identity to resist treatment

    27 May 2026

    Cancer scientists have discovered that lung cancer cells can change their identity to resist treatment.

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  • Salah Mansour and Ali Roghanian standing together in a lab, both are wearinf blue jackets.

    Children and young people’s cancers become focus of pioneering research in Southampton

    10 March 2026

    Children and young people diagnosed with aggressive cancers could benefit from a pioneering project supported by Southampton researchers to create new treatments.

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  • Lara Graham and her mum Nicky stood in their craft room, proudly displaying their terracotta ceramic creations.

    Cancer research saved my mum, now I’m finding breakthroughs to help others

    3 February 2026

    Cancer researcher Lara Graham has a new appreciation of her work on immunotherapy after it dramatically improved her mum’s bone marrow cancer.

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  • Two pairs of hands intertwined, the child is wearing a mint-green sweater with bracelets on the wrist, and the other in a light grey sweater, in a cosy setting.

    Adding antibody treatment to chemo boosts outcomes for children with rare cancer

    15 December 2025

    Children with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma which hasn’t responded to initial treatment, or that has relapsed, may benefit from adding antibody treatment to usual chemotherapy, according to new results from a clinical trial.

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  • A close-up of a hospital patient's arm with an IV line and a light blue gown covering the body in a bed.

    Southampton scientists awarded Blood Cancer UK grant to develop new leukaemia immunotherapy

    11 September 2025

    A team of interdisciplinary researchers at the University of Southampton have been awarded a major new grant from Blood Cancer UK to develop a pioneering T cell therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), one of the most aggressive forms of blood cancer.

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  • Prof Sally Ward doing experiments in the lab.

    Professor Sally Ward wins international prize for breakthroughs in antibody therapies

    16 July 2025

    Professor Sally Ward, Director of Translational Research at the Centre for Cancer Immunology (CCI) within the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded the International Society of Molecular Recognition Award in Affinity Technology

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