Research projects

Active Italy

Lymphoma

How do aggressive lymphomas grow and can we stop them?

Lymphomas can sometimes come back even after successful treatment so this project is exploring a possible new way to target this disease and improve patient outcomes. 

Researcher: Professor Bruno Amati

Seeking a possible new target for lymphoma treatment

Active Ireland

Lymphoma

Can we stop treatment resistance in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients?

This project hopes to lead to a way to stop cancer cells from becoming resistant to a type of targeted treatment, so that the therapy works for more people.

Researcher: Professor Adrian Bracken

Maximising the effectiveness of a targeted therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Active Australia

Multiple cancers

Can we make our immune systems better at stopping cancer?

This project aims to progress the development of powerful new immunotherapy treatments by uncovering vital new information about how our immune system works. 

Researcher: Dr Mireille Lahoud

Boosting the ability of our immune system to better detect and more effectively destroy cancer

Active Portugal

Leukaemia

What is the difference between leukaemia cells and healthy cells?

Children with leukaemia are often treated with chemotherapy which has distressing and harsh side so this project hopes to discover better, gentler treatments.

Researcher: Dr João Barata

Spot the difference: revealing differences between leukaemia cells and healthy cells

Active Ireland

Ovarian cancer

How can we find new targets for potential ovarian cancer treatments?

Researchers hope to find much needed new ways to treat ovarian cancer by better understanding the biology of how this common cancer develops.

Researcher: Dr Eric Conway

Discovering new targets to treat ovarian cancer

Active Spain

Lung cancer

How do cancer cells modify white blood cells to help tumours grow?

Researchers want to help immunotherapy work for more cancer patients by understanding how cancers hijack our immune system and preventing this happening 

Researcher: Dr Andrés Hidalgo

Understanding how cancer cells modify white blood cells to help tumours grow

Active Netherlands

Melanoma

Do cancer cells work collectively to survive, spread and resist treatment?

This project hopes to find new ways to stop cancer spreading and stop it resisting treatments by understanding better how cancer cells collaborate.

Researcher: Professor Peter Friedl

Do cancer cells work “collectively” to survive?

Active United Kingdom

Breast cancer

Is there a better way to kill breast cancer cells?

This project is hoping to find smarter and kinder ways to treat breast cancer by destroying cancer cells in a  different way from other cancer treatments.

Researcher: Professor Pascal Meier

Life, Death and Afterlife: Using cell death to boost our immune system

Active France

Brain cancer

Why are glioblastoma brain tumour cells so good at spreading?

This project hopes to better understand the mechanisms that help glioblastoma spread so commonly and so hard to treat, to discover vital new cures. 

Researcher: Dr Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

Spotting the most aggressive glioblastoma cells