Research projects
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General cancer research
Researchers hope to better understand the communication inside cancer cells to make discoveries that can pave the way for new cures in a variety of cancer types.
Researcher: Dr Sara Sigismund
Touching membranes – understanding how different parts of the cell communicateActive Italy
Leukaemia
Researchers hope to discover how to treat leukaemia that has returned after therapy by better understanding the mechanism that causes cancer to come back.
Researcher: Dr Vincenzo Giambra
Exploring how stem cells help cancer evade chemotherapyComplete Spain
Breast cancer
Researchers believe that trying different combinations of treatments has potential to greatly improve the outcome for patients with a wide variety of cancers.
Researcher: Professor Marcos Malumbres
Working together – combining opposing therapies for the greater goodComplete France
General cancer research
By discovering more about how and why cancer develops this research team hope to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer in the future.
Researcher: Dr Allison Bardin
Using fruit flies to unravel how cancer startsComplete Belgium
Liver cancer
Liver cancer is very hard to treat but this team hope to better understand whether an exciting new potential treatment could help or patients in the future.
Researcher: Professor Georg Halder
A new ground-breaking approach to bile duct cancer and liver cancerComplete Germany
Oesophageal cancer
By comparing oesophageal cancer cells to healthy cells researchers hope to find clues towards much needed new treatments and improve the poor survival rates.
Researcher: Dr Denes Hnisz
Unravelling the genetic background of oesophageal cancerComplete Israel
Breast cancer
This project hopes to discover clues towards new cures that would stop breast cancer spreading, which could dramatically improve outcomes for patients.
Researcher: Dr Neta Erez
Understanding how breast cancer spreads to the bones – and how to stop itComplete Spain
Leukaemia
This team are aiming to find the very first stages of cancer development so they can identify new targets for cures to help patients with recurring leukaemia.
Researcher: Dr José Luis Sardina
Uncovering the cellular decisions that lead to blood cancerComplete Spain
Liver cancer
This project hopes to address the steep rise in liver cancer cases and the poor survival rates by finding a new target that would kickstart new cures.
Researcher: Professor Raul Mendez
Exploring liver cancer's weak spot as a new target for therapy