Research projects

Our project in Spain is exploring how to make pancreatic cancer treatments work better. Dr Vincent and his team are searching for a way to boost the effectiveness of a new treatment called KRAS inhibitors, so they can help more people.

This exciting research funded by Curestarters is looking boosting cancer treatments so they can help more patients. Dr Teijeira is developing a new kind of treatment to work alongside immunotherapies.

Dr Ip in Australia is hoping to find new treatment targets for an aggressive form of childhood brain cancer. Thanks to our Curestarters this will help the quest for vital new cures. 

This exciting Curestarter-funded research in Belgium is looking for new breast cancer cures. Dr Scheele and Dr Halberg are investigating how obesity can cause cancer to start - and how to stop it. 

Immunotherapy doesn't work for all cancer patients so with your support Dr Eduardo Bonavita is exploring a new way to boost our immune system to help therapy work for more people around the world. 

By finding out how cancer cells acquire the survival skills needed to thrive in other parts of the by body, Curestarter researcher Professor Zippo hopes to discover new ways to stop cancer spreading, making it easier to cure. 

Dr Maite Huarte in Spain is using Curestarter support to look for new cures for fast growing bowel cancer that can be difficult to treat. 

Thanks to your support, Dr Daniel Hodson is using innovative technologies to look for new ways to stop lymphoma, by better understanding how it starts. 

Curestarter researcher Dr Rhys Morgan is investigating clues towards a new, better way to treat a particularly fast-growing type of leukaemia.