Research projects
Active United Kingdom
Breast cancer
Curestarter researcher Dr Klaus Pors is hoping to find a new cure for treat triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive and hard to treat form of the disease.
Researcher: Dr Klaus Pors
Can a new treatment target triple-negative breast cancer?
Active Belgium
Breast cancer
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.
Active Italy
Breast cancer
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.
Researcher: Professor Alessio Zippo
How do breast cancers evolve to survive in other parts of your body?
Active Australia
Breast cancer
Dr Papa in Australia wants to find a new way to treat breast cancer, that could work in combination with current treatments. This will help tackle treatment resistance.
Researcher: Dr Antonella Papa
Is a particular mutation driving treatment resistance?
Active Portugal
Breast cancer
Patients often respond well to chemotherapy only to later develop treatment resistance – meaning the cancer comes back and the chemotherapy has stopped working. Professor Maiato wants to find ways to prevent this treatment resistance.
Researcher: Professor Helder Maiato
Can we tackle drug resistance by de-coding the structure of cells?
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 Italy
General cancer research
Once cancer has spread, or metastasised, it often becomes incurable. This project is investigating new ways to deliver drugs specifically to metastatic tumours.
Researcher: Professor Roberta Tasso
Developing natural nanoparticle “smart bombs” to target hard-to-treat tumours
Active Spain
Breast cancer
Obesity makes it easier for breast cancer to spread but this project will try to find out why to hopefully reveal new ways to stop breast cancer spreading.
Researcher: Dr Hector Peinado Selgas
Shining a light on the link between obesity and breast cancer’s ability to spreadWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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