A team of eight chemists at Newcastle Uni are keeping their labcoats on after-hours as they plan to take on the Great North Run to fundraise for the top charity which funds their own cutting-edge research.
The team are medicinal chemists at the Newcastle Uni Centre for Cancer and work as part of the Newcastle Cancer Research UK Drug Discovery Group. Their work focuses on coming up with treatments for kinds of cancer which are resistant to existing drugs.
At the moment, the team are working on four new medicines which are currently part of clinical trials testing their effectiveness at treating cancer patients. Prof Mike Waring is the team's head of chemistry and one of those taking on the 13-mile route through Tyneside next month.
