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£1.7 million for the world’s first vaccine to prevent lung cancer

Researchers at the University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London have been granted £1.7 million of funding from Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation to develop a lung cancer vaccine.. The team are seeking to create ‘LungVax’, the world’s first vaccine to prevent lung cancer in people with a high risk of the disease.

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URL: https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/03/22/1-7-million-for-the-worlds-first-vaccine-to-prevent-lung-cancer/

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