{"id":1760,"date":"2026-03-10T07:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fund.southampton.ac.uk\/innovation\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:44:16","slug":"children-and-young-peoples-cancers-become-focus-of-pioneering-research-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fund.southampton.ac.uk\/innovation\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/children-and-young-peoples-cancers-become-focus-of-pioneering-research-in-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and young people\u2019s cancers become focus of pioneering research in Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<main class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-custom-mif-dark-green-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-719178b4 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-2-color 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