Real life impact

Curestarter Alice and Dr Jamie team smile for a photo with the rest of the University College London lab team after a tour of the Worldwide Cancer Research project
General cancer research
Finding cures for cancer is my dream

13-year-old Alice has always wanted to help others and dreams of helping to find cancer cures to give people more time with their loved ones.

Leukaemia
Helping to diagnose rare genetic diseases

Your support helped Professor Kevin Hiom discover a new gene which was involved in the development of a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia.

Dario Alessi in the lab
Multiple cancers
Repurposing a diabetes drug for cancer treatment

Your support helped a drug for type 2 diabetes be tested in over 100 clinical trials for treatment and prevention of cancer. 

Professor Hans Clevers
Multiple cancers
Mini tumour organoids to help personalise cancer treatment

You helped fund research that allowed scientists to grow mini tumour organoids in the lab from a patient’s own cancer cells to study the disease and personalise treatment.

Laura Soucek And Team
Lung cancer
Drugging the 'undruggable' target in cancer

A research project you helped fund in 2013 allowed Dr Laura Soucek to develop a new treatment called omomyc, and prove that it was ready for clinical trials.

Multiple cancers
Pioneering a new laser therapy for cancer

Our research helped to discover a pioneering new treatment called photodynamic therapy which can cure cancer if it's caught early enough. 

Blood cancer
Helping to develop new blood cancer drugs

Your support helped Professor Mark Cragg discover how drugs could be used to target and destroy cancer cells and helped develop new blood cancer treatments.

Bowel cancer
Clinical trials to stop bowel cancer coming back

Your support in 2005 has helped launch clinical trials testing a promising new treatment option for people with bowel cancer.