Research projects

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General cancer research

Will disrupting a cellular communication network work as a new cure?

By discovering how cells communicate with each other and how this goes wrong in cancer, this project hopes to pave the way to cures for a variety of cancer types.

Researcher: Dr Thomas Vaccari

Disrupting a cellular communication network

Complete Netherlands

Leukaemia

Can we ‘reverse’ the leukaemia promoting environment?

This team are working out how blood cancers develop in the bone marrow so that they can find new ways to treat the disease and help more patients in the future.

Researcher: Dr Marc Raaijmaker

Understanding stem cells in leukaemia

Complete Ireland

Brain cancer

Can we stop childhood brain cancer becoming resistant to treatment?

This project hopes to provide clues towards much needed alternative treatments for when current treatments stop working on childhood brain cancers.

Researcher: Professor Adrian Bracken

Beating treatment resistance in childhood brain cancers

Complete Spain

General cancer research

Can genetic engineering help improve bowel cancer treatment?

This project hopes to find a way for a current bowel cancer treatment to work on more patients by exploring if it can be combined with a clever new technology.

Researcher: Dr Pierre Guermonpre

Gene-editing stem cells to improve immunotherapies

Complete France

Adrenal cancer

Why are women more at risk of adrenal cancer than men?

Researchers hope to kickstart new ways of preventing and treating this rare but aggressive disease in women specifically since they are at higher risk.

Researcher: Dr Andreas Schedl

Why are women more at risk of adrenal cancer?

Complete Spain

General cancer research

What is the role of molecules called ‘sirtuins’ in cancer growth?

This project hopes to reveal new knowledge about how tumours develop to lead the way to potential new drugs and treatments with fewer side effects in patients.

Researcher: Dr Alejandro Vaquero

Unpicking the role enzymes called sirtuins play in cancer

Complete Spain

Breast cancer

Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?

This project aims to reveal how parts of our diet could help cancer to spread and how to target this process to create future cures for a range of different cancers.

Researcher: Professor Salvador Aznar-Benitah

Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?

Complete Australia

Breast cancer

Can we attract more immune system cells to defeat breast cancer?

Researchers are aiming to find out how to kick-start the immune system in aggressive breast cancer patients so that survival rates improve in the future.

Researcher: Professor Tony Tiganis

Kick-starting the immune system in an aggressive type of breast cancer

Complete Australia

Lymphoma

Can we attract more immune system cells to defeat breast cancer?

This team are exploring how the immune system is activated to find a way for blood cancer patients’ own immune systems to be equipped to attack the disease.

Researcher: Professor Philip Hodgkin

Like molecular clockwork – how biological timers control the immune system