Congratulations to Dr Guy Simpson (pictured) from our UniSurrey labs, who has been awarded an Medical Research Council (MRC) Impact Acceleration grant for his project entitled ‘Novel viral Immunotherapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer in BCG non-responding patients’.
As we mentioned in the section on Tyler’s bladder cancer research, Guy’s project will develop an alternative treatment to current BCG therapy and involves using an oncolytic virus to deliver a fragment of a bacterial protein to the bladder in order to instigate an immune reaction to eradicate the bladder tumour