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The Kanka-Gajendra Foundation's Giving Back Initiative Supports Advanced Research into Lymphoma Cancer

A £125,000 (GB POUNDS) Kanka and Gajendra Verma Endowment Fund has been established with a grant from THE KANKA-GAJENDRA FOUNDATION, UK, for Lymphoma Cancer Research in perpetuity at the University of Manchester, Cancer Research Centre and Christie NHS Trust Hospital, Manchester, UK.

The Kanka-Gajendra Foundation Supports Advanced Research into Lymphoma CancerInterest from the invested fund is helping to support bright Post-Doctoral Researchers and enable targeted research investigations to advance further understanding of the many types of lymphoma.

Of this £125,000 grant, £25,000 has been set aside by Professor John Radford's team at the Manchester Cancer research Centre, UK, to fast track promising new technology for the re-analysis of archival clinical biopsies. This work will be done in partnership with Professor John Chan of University of Nebraska, USA. The investigators at the University of Nebraska are among the world leaders responsible for the genetic mapping (fingerprinting) of DLBCL. We believe that this relatively small investment in international research may lead to a revolutionary discovery of new data on Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma, (DLBCL), which is the commonest type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL).

Slide illustrating DLBCL with acknowledgement to WebPathThe B-cells that turn cancerous in DLBCL become large and look very different from ordinary cells. They affect all parts of the lymph node in a so called diffuse involvement, hence the name "diffuse large B-cell lymphoma." It is hoped that these new data will be recovered from a vast treasure trove of archival preserved samples, which hitherto it has been impossible to access, owing to modification of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules by formaldehyde used in fixing and preserving tissue samples obtained from clinical biopsies.

If you would like to help The Kanka-Gajendra Foundation in supporting this valuable targeted advanced research aimed at improved understanding and treatment of the various types of lymphoma cancer, please use the link to donations on line via JustGiving. Thank you.