Research projects
Complete Greece
Bowel cancer
This project hopes to reveal vital new ways to stop bowel cancer developing by better understanding how cancer cells and healthy cells interact.
Researcher: Dr Vasiliki Koliaraki
Understanding how colorectal tumours hijack healthy cells
Complete Australia
Endometrial cancer
This project hopes to reveal how obesity and other factors increase the risk of endometrial cancer and to prevent people at risk from developing this disease.
Researcher: Dr Tracy O'Mara
What’s the risk? Predicting endometrial cancer using genetics and measures of obesity
Complete 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 United Kingdom
Melanoma
Researchers hope to find new drug targets that could make immunotherapies more effective, making them a better option for more people with advanced melanoma.
Researcher: Dr Adam Hurlstone
Reversing resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors
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 Italy
Lung cancer
In this project researchers are exploring a potentially groundbreaking new way to treat to lung cancer through a non-invasive, inhalable treatment.
Researcher: Dr Carla Lucia Esposito
Developing a new targeted treatment for lung cancer
Complete Germany
Lung cancer
Researchers hope that exploring the effect of specific mutations on the development of lung cancer will pave the way for personalised treatments for patients.
Researcher: Professor Rocio Sotillo
Understanding why treatments don’t work for some non-smoking lung cancer patients
Complete Belgium
Melanoma
A big issue when treating cancer is when cells become resistant to therapy so this project hopes to reveal ways to target melanoma before resistance kicks-in.
Researcher: Professor Jean-Christophe Marine
Resisting resistance: How melanoma cells survive targeted therapy
Complete Italy
Pancreatic cancer
Researchers hope to find a vital new treatment for pancreatic caner that can get past scar tissue that blocks other therapies reaching this devastating disease.
Researcher: Professor Ildiko Szabo
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