Scots institutions to work together on brain cancer cure

The five years of research comes with a funding price-tag of around £2.3m.

More than 1,000 Scots are diagnosed with a brain tumour every year – but a new campaign hopes to help find a cure for the most aggressive form of the cancer.

Brain Tumour Research and the Beatson Cancer Charity are working together to fund a new Research Centre of Excellence in Scotland, where world-leading brain cancer experts will work in labs at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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