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2025
Brain Tumour Research

Closer to a Cure — 15 Years of Impact

£23.2m awarded to research since 2009; £18.2m directly to Centres of Excellence; Centres leveraged additional £23.2m — total £46.4m contribution to national investment
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5 Centres of Excellence funded across UK; 39 PhD students supported; 260 research personnel supported; 167 publications underpinned
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130+ research projects supported through Funded Initiatives; 23 novel therapies reviewed by BTR-NTA; BRAIN UK tissue bank holds 210,000+ cases and has supplied 26,000+ samples to 110+ studies
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Blood test for high-grade brain tumours granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation (2023); Barts Brain Tumour Centre grew from zero clinical trials in 2019 to running the most brain tumour clinical trials of any UK neuro-oncology centre in 2024
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