Research projects

Complete Italy
Breast cancer
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
Complete Italy
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
Complete Ireland
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
Complete Spain
Breast cancer
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
Complete Israel
Breast cancer
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
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
Complete Spain
Breast cancer
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?
Complete Australia
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