Research projects
Active United Kingdom
Bowel cancer
With your support, Professor Lesley Stark and her team in Edinburgh hope to find new ways to prevent cancer linked to ageing.
Researcher: Professor Lesley Stark
Journey to the centre of a cell: why does age matter in cancer?
Active Spain
General cancer research
Our project in Spain is exploring an innovative new 'dual-action' cancer cure
Researcher: Dr Edurne Rujas
Can ‘2 in 1’ therapy improve how we treat cancer?
Active Spain
Brain cancer
Our project in Spain is looking for cures for the childhood tumour diffuse midline glioma
Researcher: Dr Maria Alieva
How can we stop childhood brain tumours being so aggressive?
Active Spain
Lung cancer
This project hopes to find a way for immunotherapies to work better, for more cancer patients. Using cutting-edge technologies they will test out a potential new way to treat cancer and explore how to advance it towards the clinic.
Researcher: Dr Alfonso Calvo
Can we stop cancers hiding from immunotherapy?
Active USA
Breast cancer
This project hopes to develop a new way to identify and target prostate and breast cancer cells in the body using tiny molecular ‘flags’, called minibodies.
Researcher: Dr Tanya Stoyanova
Mini but mighty: Using ‘minibodies’ to detect and treat breast and prostate cancer
Active United Kingdom
Prostate cancer
This project aims to find vital new treatments for advanced prostate cancer that stops responding to other treatments or comes back after treatment.
Researcher: Dr Claire Fletcher
Developing a brand-new treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Active Italy
Bowel cancer
Werner Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that increases the risk of bowel cancer. Discovering more about this link could lead to new treatments.
Researcher: Dr Pietro Pichierri
How can we detect new targets to treat bowel cancer?
Active Italy
General cancer research
Most cancer deaths are caused by cancer spreading to different organs so this project hopes to find a new way to detect and even stop cancer spreading.
Researcher: Professor Stefano Santaguida
The role of the self-eating receptor p62 in stopping cancer spreading