Research projects
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Kidney cancer
By studying the mechanisms that drive the growth of kidney cancer researchers are hoping to discover vital new ways to prevent it progressing and spreading.
Researcher: Dr Sakari Vanharanta
Improving our understanding of how to treat kidney cancer
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Breast cancer
The team hope that by understanding how different mutations contribute to breast cancer, they can reveal new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
Researcher: Dr Aura Carreira
Uncovering how a faulty BRCA2 gene causes breast cancer to develop
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General cancer research
This project hopes to discover clues about new ways to provide personalised immunotherapy treatments for patients with many different cancer types.
Researcher: Professor Stefano Biffo
Developing a new model of the immune response to tumours
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Bowel cancer
By studying the microbes living in the guts bowel cancer patients researchers hope to reveal new ways to make immunotherapies more effective.
Researcher: Dr Luigi Nezi
Targeting the gut microbiome to make immunotherapies more effective
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General cancer research
Researchers hope to discover whole new ways to prevent and treat cancer in the future by using a powerful new technique to study how cancer grows.
Researcher: Dr Davide Mazza
Visualising the earliest stages of cancer
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Melanoma
Cancers is easier to treat when caught early so this project hopes to reveal new treatments that could stop melanoma spreading, helping survival rates.
Researcher: Professor Victoria Sanz-Moreno
Understanding how melanoma adapts to spread and seed new tumours
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General cancer research
Mutations to a certain gene lead to several types of cancer, so this project hopes to find new future cures by better understanding the role of this mutation.
Researcher: Dr Diego Pasini
Tipping the scales: How a genetic mutation makes cells unstable
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Brain cancer
Unfortunately most brain tumours return despite treatment so researchers are hope to find clues towards future cures which could improve outcomes for patients.
Researcher: Professor Christos Delidakis
Model brains: Using fruit flies to understand how brain tumours spread
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Breast cancer
Researchers hope to reveal whether groundbreaking new drugs could stop breast cancer spreading which would make this common cancer much easier to treat.
Researcher: Professor Edward Tate
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