Research projects

Curestarter researcher Dr Klaus Pors is hoping to find a new cure for treating triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive and hard to treat form of the disease. 

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. 

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 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. 

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.

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.