The Marian Aldred Award is a grant that currently supports young researchers working on a project at the Luxembourg Institute of Health aimed at blocking breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis. . Read more about Invadoblock here

The Marian Aldred award was instigated in 2012 following the untimely death due to ovarian cancer, of one of the committee’s founding members, Marian Aldred. The Marian Aldred Award has been designed to fund education or research into cancers which affect women and/or to provide support to women and their families whose lives have been touched by cancer.

Previously funded project:

IDENTIFICATION DES CIBLES MOLÉCULAIRES DES COMPOSÉS DE LA FAMILLE DES GLYCOSIDES CARDIAQUES

Amount donated: 63,000 € over 3 years (2012-2014)

Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer (LBMCC), PhD student Florian Mullerunder Dr. Marc Diederich. 
http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/DDOC_T_2014_0231_MULLER.pdf