Funding boost for Africa
A Northwick Park doctor who secured global funding to help tackle liver cancer in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is to receive further funding for the initiative from the Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Society.
Dr Behnam Shaygi successfully bid for the grant through a collaborative international research network and has been working with his counterparts in Tanzania as well as US clinicians from Yale, Harvard and Emory universities through non-charitable organisations.
SSA has one of the highest rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the world but is poorly funded and researched with the one-year survival rate as low as 7%.