Research projects

Complete Australia
Melanoma
Immunotherapy has helped improve melanoma survival rates but it doesn’t work for everyone so this project hopes to find ways for more patients to benefit.
Researcher: Professor Ruth Ganss
Improving the effect of immunotherapies for melanoma skin cancer
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
Researchers hope to discover which cancers are likely to respond best to different treatment options, to improve patient outcomes in the future.
Researcher: Dr Peter Sarkies
Epigenetics – exploring one of cancer’s weak spots
Active Spain
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer can be very hard to treat when found at a later stage so this project hopes to pave the way towards future cures for these more aggressive cancers.
Researcher: Dr Mariona Graupera
How can healthy cells contribute to aggressive prostate cancer?
Active United Kingdom
General cancer research
This project hopes to open up exciting possibilities for personalised cancer treatment by finding how to predict which patients will respond best to treatment.
Researcher: Professor Tim Elliott
Finding ways to predict which patients will respond to immunotherapy
Active United Kingdom
Lymphoma
This project will explore a cancer mutation which could be key to finding new way stop cancer progressing, opening the door to future new treatments.
Researcher: Professor Richard Jenner
A new way to switch anti-cancer genes back on
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 Italy
Kidney cancer
This project hopes to kickstart a new way to prevent kidney cancer developing by better understanding the process that puts some families at a higher risk.
Researcher: Dr Chiara Di Malta
Trying to stop the development of kidney cancer in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
Complete France
Ovarian cancer
By better understanding how cancer progresses and responds to treatment this research team hope to improve outcomes for ovarian cancer patients.
Researcher: Dr Renata Basto
Understanding ovarian cancer progression and response to chemotherapy
Complete Australia
General cancer research
This project is trying to better understand certain cancer mutations in the hope of discovering clues towards new treatments for a range of cancer types.
Researcher: Dr Lee Wong
Finding new treatment targets by tackling cancer’s immortality