March 2021

Antonella is expecting a baby girl in April!
All the best Antonella and family, we look forward to your return in the fall! 

January 2021

We recently held a virtual event to recognise the amazing contribution that Emily Parsons and family have made to our work. Emily single-handedly raised over £50,000 for research into H3K27M gliomas.

Read more about Emily here. 

Emily's JustGiving page can be found here.

Emily is an inspiring individual, and her story is incredibly moving, motivating us like nothing else can to continue to persist in understanding and picking apart this disease, responsible for a large proportion of cancer-related death in children and young people.

Thank you Emily. 

December 2020

We are happy to have contributed to the seminal work recently published in Cell by the Jabado and Kleinman labs, in which they identify interneuron progenitors as the cell-of-origin in H3.3-G34R paediatric gliomas.

November 2020

We are in lockdown for the second time this year.

This time, essential work in the lab can continue in a limited capacity.

October 2020

Kyle McGeehan is a visiting MPhil student from the US. He is also the recipient of a Cambridge Trust & Professor Robert Edwards Scholarship.

Kyle will be working on mutant G34R and IDH1 driven models of glioma in the lab. ​Welcome Kyle!

September 2020

We have received a grant from Brain Research UK to study the role of ATRX loss and G-quadruplexes in paediatric gliomas. We hope to also test new combination therapies for tumours that harbour ATRX loss. Read more about the project here.

This funding will allow us to make the most of our models and available research infrastructure here at CRUK CBTCE.

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June 2020

We are back in the lab, with appropriate PPE and physical distancing. Our work can begin again! 
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It hasn't been easy, but we will persevere!

March 2020

The UK is under lockdown due to the rapidly escalating COVID pandemic and our research has been halted.

Hopefully, we'll be back in the lab soon to continue our much-needed work tackling childhood and young adult brain cancer.

Please stay safe and well. 

February 2020

We received a grant from Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity! Very happy about this vote of confidence in our approach. With this funding we will be developing models of paediatric glioma subtypes and using these to identify new genetic vulnerabilities and treatment options.


Read more about the work we plan on doing here and here.

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November 2019

We are off to a racing start and are busy establishing a strong foundation for future work!

August 2019

We've moved in to our new location within the Milner Institute in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

Many thanks to the Gilbertson, Franklin and Rowitch labs for accommodating us up to this point!

February 2019

Antonella De Cola joins the lab!

November 2018

Michael McNicholas has joined the lab and is helping us get off the ground!

September 2018

The Pathania Lab is established at the University of Cambridge.