Research projects
Active Israel
General cancer research
Researchers hope to find new ways predict and stop cancers becoming life-threatening by understanding how a very common cancer mutation helps cancers spread.
Researcher: Dr Tomer Cooks
Exploring how the p53 mutation helps cancers spread
Active United Kingdom
Pancreatic cancer
This project hopes to find vital new treatments for pancreatic cancer patients with no current options by better understanding how pancreatic cancers spreads.
Researcher: Professor Seth Coffelt
Understanding how immune cells participate in the spread of pancreatic cancer
Complete Switzerland
General cancer research
This project hopes to discover new ways to prevent the development of resistance to cancer treatments which is crucial to stop people dying from cancer.
Researcher: Professor Lorenza Penengo
Understanding why treatment resistance develops
Active Finland
Kidney cancer
By studying the mechanisms that drive the growth of kidney cancer researchers are hoping to discover vital new ways to prevent it progressing and spreading.
Researcher: Dr Sakari Vanharanta
Improving our understanding of how to treat kidney cancer
Active Spain
Breast cancer
The team hope that by understanding how different mutations contribute to breast cancer, they can reveal new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
Researcher: Dr Aura Carreira
Uncovering how a faulty BRCA2 gene causes breast cancer to develop
Active Italy
General cancer research
This project hopes to discover clues about new ways to provide personalised immunotherapy treatments for patients with many different cancer types.
Researcher: Professor Stefano Biffo
Developing a new model of the immune response to tumours
Active Italy
Bowel cancer
By studying the microbes living in the guts bowel cancer patients researchers hope to reveal new ways to make immunotherapies more effective.
Researcher: Dr Luigi Nezi
Targeting the gut microbiome to make immunotherapies more effective
Active Italy
General cancer research
Researchers hope to discover whole new ways to prevent and treat cancer in the future by using a powerful new technique to study how cancer grows.
Researcher: Dr Davide Mazza
Visualising the earliest stages of cancer
Complete United Kingdom
Melanoma
Cancers is easier to treat when caught early so this project hopes to reveal new treatments that could stop melanoma spreading, helping survival rates.
Researcher: Professor Victoria Sanz-Moreno
Understanding how melanoma adapts to spread and seed new tumoursWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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