Research projects
Active Germany
Breast cancer
Researchers are trying to improve ways of spotting cancer that has spread to the lungs to help patients sooner and give them better treatment options.
Researcher: Dr Leif Schröder
Developing ultra-sensitive MRI that spots cancer sooner
Complete France
Breast cancer
Researchers hope to find better, more personalised treatments for breast cancer patients by identifying characteristics that predict how a tumour will behave.
Researcher: Dr Anne Vincent-Salomon
Using AI to predict drug resistance mutations in breast cancer
Complete Australia
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is much harder to treat once it spreads so the team hope to better understand the processes through which tumours spread and find new ways to stop it.
Researcher: Dr Michael Samuel
Uncovering how breast cancer recruits healthy cells to grow and spread
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
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