Research projects

Complete Belgium

Liver cancer

Can ‘regenerative cancer therapy’ be a new cure for liver cancer?

Liver cancer is very hard to treat but this team hope to better understand whether an exciting new potential treatment could help or patients in the future.

Researcher: Professor Georg Halder

A new ground-breaking approach to bile duct cancer and liver cancer

Complete Germany

Oesophageal cancer

Can we unravel the genetic background of oesophageal cancer?

By comparing oesophageal cancer cells to healthy cells researchers hope to find clues towards much needed new treatments and improve the poor survival rates.

Researcher: Dr Denes Hnisz

Unravelling the genetic background of oesophageal cancer

Complete Israel

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
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Complete Spain

Leukaemia

What cellular decisions can lead to leukaemia developing?

This team are aiming to find the very first stages of cancer development so they can identify new targets for cures to help patients with recurring leukaemia.

Researcher: Dr José Luis Sardina

Uncovering the cellular decisions that lead to blood cancer

Complete Spain

Liver cancer

Does liver cancer have a weak spot which could be a new drug target?

This project hopes to address the steep rise in liver cancer cases and the poor survival rates by finding a new target that would kickstart new cures.

Researcher: Professor Raul Mendez

Exploring liver cancer's weak spot as a new target for therapy

Complete USA

Pancreatic cancer

How does pancreatic cancer’s environment help it to grow?

This research team hope to discover clues towards much needed new treatments for pancreatic cancer so that survival rates for patients improve.

Researcher: Dr Edna Cukierman

Getting on cancer's nerves: exploring how the tumour's environment helps it grow
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Active Italy

Pancreatic cancer

Can we find and target pancreatic cancer’s Achilles' heel?

Pancreatic cancer is very difficult to treat but this project hopes more patients in the future will be helped by discovering more personalised treatments.  

Researcher: Dr Miriam Martini

Understanding how we could target pancreatic cancer's Achilles' heel
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Active Australia

Melanoma

How could our ‘guard cells’ help attack cancer cells?

Researchers hope to find ways for immunotherapy to help more patients by understanding how particular cells in our immune system could give treatments a boost.

Researcher: Dr Meredith O'Keeffe

Investigating the effect of immune therapy on certain immune cells

Complete Israel

General cancer research

Can we find a way to affect an elusive cancer target?

This project hopes to kickstart a new cancer cure that could help patients in the future whilst reducing the side effects that come with current treatments.

Researcher: Professor Niv Papo

Developing a therapy for a challenging but promising target in cancer