Thanks for visiting our team fundraising page.  Team CIIC members are:

Professor Benjamin Willcox (Professor of Molecular Immunology, School of Cancer Sciences) is researching how immune cells that carry out surveillance of our tissues use special immune receptors on their surface to recognise and destroy tumour cell targets.  With this information, he hopes to exploit these cells for new cancer immunotherapy approaches.

Dr Gavin Bendle (Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research Senior non-clinical Bennett Fellow) is focused on engineering T cells to become more potent killers of cancer cells. He is developing these therapies for treatment of a range of tumours, including blood cancers such as myeloma.

Dr Fiyaz Mohammed (Lecturer in Biomedical Structural Biology, School of Cancer Sciences) researches the structure and function of immune receptors present on the surface of immune cells. These receptors play crucial roles  activating the immune system, and knowing how these receptors work will help us develop new immunotherapies to fight cancer.

Dr Sarah Penny (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Immunity and Infection) is identifying novel immune targets that distinguish cancer cells from normal body cells. She is studying how the immune system recognises these targets, and how this can be exploited in cancer vaccination strategies to bolster immunity to cancer.

Dr Richard Staff - running to support the valuable work of his wonderful wife and colleagues in cancer immunology.

Dr Laura Quinn - Postdoctoral researcher

Mr William Ripley - Laura's Friend

Mr Callum Poyser (Clinical Trial Coordinator within the Birmingham Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit) helps bring exciting new drugs and treatments to cancer patients as quickly and safely as possible by facilitating the development of early phase trials.

Mr Michael Poyser - Callum's Dad.

Mr Stuart Hunter - (PhD student in the School of Cancer Sciences). Stuart's research focusses on understanding the link between the immune response in the liver and the progression of inflammation driven cancer, with the ultimate aim of developing novel immune based treatments.

Miss Olivia Thomas (PhD student in the School of Cancer Sciences).  Running to raise money for CIIC to help fund research into immunotherapies that could allow us to move away from chemotherapy and towards providing personalised treatments for cancer patients in the future.

Miss Vanessa Tubb (PhD student in the School of Cancer Sciences). Vanessa's research is focussed on developing of adoptive T cell therapies for the treatment of blood cancers and also solid cancers.

Mr Calum Forrest - PhD student in the School of Cancer Sciences

Mrs Rachel Hoare (Research Technician, School of Cancer Sciences) is working with Gavin to develop new methods for engineering immune cells to become more potent killers of cancer cells.

Mr John Hoare (Mechanical engineer) - reluctant volunteer!

Mr Anthony Timbrell - John's Friend

Mr James Price - John's Friend

Mr Chris Mills - John's Friend

We have joined together to raise funds for research that will help harness the immune system to fight cancer.

New immunotherapies are starting to turn the tide against cancer. Immunotherapy approaches are potentially very powerful, can be made highly specific to the tumour, and can be applied to a wide range of cancers.

Help us raise money for the Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre, part of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity.

You'll see our team fundraising target on the right. Your donation is massively appreciated and can really help us smash this goal.

Every penny you donate will help research into new immunotherapies for cancer. So please dig deep and donate now. Thanks.

Check out our website www.ciic.org.uk for more information about the Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Centre.

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