Advancing the cure and treatment of blood cancers
Leukaemia Fund
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GRANTS
Each year ELF awards a number of grants to help advance the treatment and cure of blood cancers across the whole age spectrum. The emphasis of ELF’s charitable giving is to support work that is patient centred and which is likely to have an immediate or near future benefit to patients.
Grants to Advance the Treatment and Support of Patients
Each year ELF awards a number of small valued grants to help wards and units procure items that directly improves the care, support and treatment of patients. These grants are only awarded for items that have a specific haematological purpose.
Professional Support Grants
ELF provides a number of grants to organisations to help support conferences, workshops and similar activities and to fund equipment purchases and to develop or expand treatment facilities. These grants are also awarded to individuals to help support work which falls outside the terms of our Educational Fellowships.
Patient Support Grants
ELF awards small valued grants to patients and their families and carers who, as a result of their illness, experience financial hardship.
EXISTING GRANTS
The following are the grants that have either been made in the last 12 months or are current.
King’s College Hospital, London
A grant of £56,200 was awarded in April 2008 to help establish a new Post Transplant Clinical Nurse Specialist post. Funding comes to an end in March 2010.
King’s College Hospital, London
A grant of £27,000 was awarded in January 2009 to help with the expansion and refurbishment of the Haematology Department’s Apheresis Unit.
Guy’s Hospital, London
A grant was awarded to Dr Robert Carr of £78,000 to help establish a Clinical Nurses Specialist haematology post for their new Teenage & Young Adult Unit.
King’s College London
A grant of £350,000 was awarded in May 2005 to Prof Ghulam Mufti and Prof Farzin Farzaneh to help fund translational research and a clinical trial in support of their Gene Therapy work. The current grant comes to an end in December 2009.
Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, London
A grant of £98,600 was awarded in January 2007 to Dr Owen Williams for translational research into Childhood Leukaemia. The grant comes to an end in January 2010.
University of East Anglia
A grant of £64,800 was awarded in October 2007 to Dr Andrew Chantry for translational research into a dual therapy approach for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia.
University of Cambridge
A grant of £82,500 was awarded in November 2007 to Prof Ming-
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
In January 2009 a grant of £121,763 was awarded to Dr Tim Chevassut to undertake translational research into treatment strategies for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Funding was given to Lowen Ward to allow them to purchase a new blood monitor.
Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre, Glasgow
A £6,000 grant was made to fund the purchase of equipment.
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