Dundee University was one of 16 institutions from across the globe to benefit from new funding on World Cancer Day.
Worldwide Cancer Research awarded the campus £190,514 towards research into how sarcoma, a rare tissue cancer, develops.
The funding was announced on World Cancer Day, which took place on Thursday 4 February, and it is hoped it will help identify new treatments.
Dundee University’s Professor Kevin Hiom and his team are studying how certain genetic mutation in DNA lead to sarcoma.
He said: “Worldwide Cancer Research has always taken new ideas seriously, no matter who or where they were from. They focus on the most innovative research ideas, enabling scientists to challenge what is understood about cancer in search of important breakthroughs that will hopefully change the course of cancer research towards more effective treatments.
“The inability to properly repair DNA damage is common to all of the 200 different diseases that make up cancer and therefore it is an obvious and successful target for treating the disease.
“By better understanding DNA repair in cancer, we hope to identify ways of killing cancer cancer cells using potential new therapies which are more effective and much less toxic for the patients.”
A total of 16 institutes from 15 cities across the world have received a share of £3.2 million of funding to assist their research.
In the UK, projects in Birmingham and London were also awarded cash.
Those projects are exploring how to track immune cells to improve immunotherapy and how to reactivate anti-cancer genes to develop new treatments for Non-Hodkin’s lymphoma.
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