Small Research Grants

Throughout the year, we consider applications and allocate small amounts of funding for innovative research into neuroblastoma.

Our Small Grants programme helps researchers develop projects that aim to improve our understanding of how neuroblastomas develop. This funding may then lead to form larger grant applications for novel, more effective approaches to treatment.

With these grants (of up to £5,000), we can enable researchers to increase the impact of their work, help them to explore synergies between separate research efforts and to take forward new projects.

Small Grant Application Form 2024

Please complete our Grant Application Form using the structure requested and attach all appendices listed.

Guidance Notes

Please read these Guidance Notes as you complete the form and supply information in the format requested.

Reports of recent Small Research Grants

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Can a keto diet enhance therapy for neuroblastoma?
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Can a keto diet enhance therapy for neuroblastoma?
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In 2019, we awarded nearly £5,000 to Prof Robert Falconer and Xiaoxiao Guo at the University of Bradford.

This research grant enabled them to explore the potential for a ketogenic diet to enhance neuroblastoma therapy. Let’s find out more.

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Dr Zoë Walters’ research into combination therapies
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In 2019, as part of our Small Grants programme, we awarded £5,000 to Dr Zoë Walters at the University of Southampton.

Dr Walters tells us more about her research into the treatment of neuroblastoma, why she is passionate about cancer research and how she hopes to make a difference to children with neuroblastoma.

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Using 3D printing to study neuroblastoma 
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Using 3D printing to study neuroblastoma 
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We are providing funding of over £116,000 to Dr Olga Piskareva and her team at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). 

In this project, Dr Piskareva aims to use 3D printing technology to engineer a novel experimental model and study the biology, and subsequent treatment of, neuroblastoma. “Thanks to funding from Neuroblastoma UK and its dedicated supporters...we hope to develop more effective treatments for children with neuroblastoma, with more tolerable side-effects.”

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