“During the course of our 50 year long career in cancer research one thing has become very clear and it is this. Bright young minds are needed to steer future research to make continual improvements to the treatments that already exist and to discover new ones that haven’t been invented yet. We at Leukaemia Busters have supported and trained many young scientists and doctors in the charity’s Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Laboratories at Southampton General Hospital, understanding that they are the means by which successful research will continue into the future. Over the years Leukaemia Busters has provided the support for this and some of our past students have made important research contributions and they themselves have become leaders in the fields of paediatric and adult oncology. It is for this reason that we are now steering Leukaemia Busters towards providing prestigious three year Simon Flavell Leukaemia Research Fellowships, designed for young scientists who have recently completed their PhD qualification. The research fellow will carry out laboratory based work on the immunotherapy of leukaemia in the expectation that this will provide a springboard for them to become lead researchers in the future to continue the all important quest of a safe and effective cure for each and every patient with leukaemia”.