Miranda Filmer died aged 30 of neuroendocrine cancer. In 2022, Miranda’s family set up a fund for research into neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) and have been actively fundraising since.
So far, the Miranda Filmer Fund has raised almost £500,000, supporting a groundbreaking research study exploring why some cancer cells within a patient are more aggressive, why they change their structure, and how they respond to treatment. The aim is to increase understanding of which treatments work better on which patients.
The neuroendocrine cancer study is led by the Royal Free London’s Professor Martyn Caplin, a global expert on NETs and Professor Krista Rombouts, an internationally-renowned scientist and interim head of department at UCL’s Institute for Liver and Digestive Health.
As the Filmer family marks the second anniversary of Miranda’s death in June, Prof Caplin has announced that a new spatial biology research hub is to be established in her name.