Some researchers you help to finance

Here are some of the researchers and their projects which have just been awarded grants:

Jonathon Coxon, St George's Hospital, Tooting receives £25,000 to further investigate the finding that biphosphonates slow down the invasion of bone by cancer cells.

Simon Bott, University College, London receives £20,000 to use the database to identify genetic factors which might predict whether the prostatectomy operation has been succesful.

Jonathan Cohen, University College, London receives £6,670 for the maintenance and build up a database at University College of clinical information on over a thousand men who have had prostatectomies.

Dr Eugene Tulchinsky and Professor Killian Mellon, The University of Leicester receive £21,800 to identify genes which are influenced by the loss of a cell-cell adhesion molecule - an event which occurs in the malignant transformation of tumour cells.

Dr Steve Harper and David Gillatt, Bristol Urological Institute receive £24,338 to explore the idea that turning back on an inhibitory factor, that tumours turn off to allow new blood vessels to grow, may form the basis of a future cancer treatment.

Professor Dylan Edwards and colleagues, The University of East Anglia receive £25,000 to study enzymes believed to be involved in tumour growth.  The objective is to identify new markers for prostate cancer and to reveal molecular mechanisms which contribute to malignancy.

Rono Mukerjee and colleagues, Glasgow Royal Infirmary receives £25,000 to investigate factors which stimulate the growth of cancer nourishing blood vessels and the changes which occur when conventional therapies fail.

Dr Rosalind Eeles and colleagues, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton receive £25,000 to study the damage to genetic material in blood cells in men who are at high risk of developing prostate cancer.

Richard Batstone and colleagues, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge receives £25,000 to attempt to prove that chronic prostatitis has an autoimmune cause.

Professor Anthony Flynn, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds receives £25,000 to explore the relationship between the planned and achieved dose distributions in brachytherapy.

Santhir Mehta and colleagues, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield receive a grant of £21,200 to apply 3-dimensional image processing technology to the identification automatically whether prostate cancer has or has not spread outside the gland.

Dr Abbas Khadra, St. George's Hospital Medical School receives £10,000 to investigate new diagnostic and management tools for non bacterial prostatitis.