Research projects

Sirio Dupont wearing lab coat

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Breast cancer

How can breast cancer be stopped from coming back?

Even if treatment is successful cancer can come back so researchers hope to find new ways to kill even the hidden cancer cells and improve patient outcomes.

Researcher: Dr Sirio Dupont

How can breast cancer be stopped from coming back

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Breast cancer

Can we design better treatments for triple-negative breast cancer?

Researchers are developing a highly innovative way to deliver treatments directly to tumours to improve survival rates of aggressive breast cancer.

Researcher: Dr Greta Varchi

Developing a delivery system to improve treatment for aggressive breast cancer
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Breast cancer

How can we start new cures for invasive lobular breast cancer?

This project hopes to pave the way towards more treatment options for patients with a type of breast cancer which often becomes resistant to current therapies.

Researcher: Professor Darran O'Connor

Finding a new treatment for invasive lobular breast cancer
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Complete Spain

Breast cancer

Could opposing cancer treatments actually work well together?

Researchers believe that trying different combinations of treatments has potential to greatly improve the outcome for patients with a wide variety of cancers.

Researcher: Professor Marcos Malumbres

Working together – combining opposing therapies for the greater good

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Breast cancer

How does breast cancer spreads to the bones and can we stop it?

This project hopes to discover clues towards new cures that would stop breast cancer spreading, which could dramatically improve outcomes for patients.

Researcher: Dr Neta Erez

Understanding how breast cancer spreads to the bones – and how to stop it

Complete Spain

Breast cancer

Can radiotherapy work better against cancers that spread to the brain?

The location of brain cancer makes it particularly hard to treat so this team hope to find ways to improve radiotherapy so it can benefit more patients.

Researcher: Dr Manuel Valiente

Making radiotherapy more effective against cancers that have spread to the brain

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Breast cancer

Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?

This project aims to reveal how parts of our diet could help cancer to spread and how to target this process to create future cures for a range of different cancers.

Researcher: Professor Salvador Aznar-Benitah

Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?

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Breast cancer

Can we attract more immune system cells to defeat breast cancer?

Researchers are aiming to find out how to kick-start the immune system in aggressive breast cancer patients so that survival rates improve in the future.

Researcher: Professor Tony Tiganis

Kick-starting the immune system in an aggressive type of breast cancer