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Lykiri

10/22/25 7:08 PM

#794012 RE: norisknorewards #793927

Thanks norisknorewards.

Briefing to Parliamentarians – October 2025

Meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group
on Brain Tumours (APPGBT)

Committee Room 17 HoC
18:00 – 19:15 Tuesday 21st October 2025

Agenda (following AGM which commences at 18:00)

• Welcome from Chair, Dame Siobhain McDonagh
• Apologies received
• Approval minutes from last meeting
• Matters arising from 9th September meeting
• Dan Knowles, CEO, Brain Tumour Research
• Sharon Kane, CEO, Neurochase
Professor Keyoumars Ashkan MBE, Professor of Neurosurgery
and Lead Clinician for Neuro-Oncology at King’s College Hospital,
and Chair of King’s Neurosciences Clinical Trial Unit

• Dr Nicky Huskens, CEO, Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
• AOB and next meeting

Professor Ashkan will present on DCVax, a precision personalised immune
therapy for brain tumours. He will address the exceptionally comprehensive
review by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
(MRHA) ahead of market authorisation that has been ongoing for over a year.
“The review process is expected to conclude in the next couple of months,
and the brain tumour community anxiously looks forward to the outcome given
the extremely poor patient prognosis and the lack of meaningful progress in the
field for the past 20 years.