Research projects

Complete Switzerland
General cancer research
This project aims to find a new way to boost the immune system’s fight against cancer so that in the future treatments work better for more patients.
Researcher: Professor Maries van den Broek
A new way to boost the immune system’s fight against cancer
Complete Netherlands
General cancer research
This project hopes to find a way for DNA damage to build up in cancer cells that would ultimately cause more of these cells to die and treatments work better.
Researcher: Dr Maria Tresini
Switching off DNA repair in cancer cells
Complete Finland
General cancer research
Stopping these mechanisms could ultimately lead to a treatment that stops a variety of cancer types from spreading, making them much easier to treat.
Researcher: Dr Pipsa Saharinen
Patching up tumour blood vessels
Complete United Kingdom
Pancreatic cancer
By understanding how healthy cells are involved in pancreatic cancer growth this project hopes to find urgent new treatments for one of the deadliest cancers.
Researcher: Dr Angus Cameron
Cutting communication between normal and tumour cells in pancreatic cancer
Complete Italy
General cancer research
By discovering how cells communicate with each other and how this goes wrong in cancer, this project hopes to pave the way to cures for a variety of cancer types.
Researcher: Dr Thomas Vaccari
Disrupting a cellular communication network
Complete Netherlands
Leukaemia
This team are working out how blood cancers develop in the bone marrow so that they can find new ways to treat the disease and help more patients in the future.
Researcher: Dr Marc Raaijmaker
Understanding stem cells in leukaemia
Complete Ireland
Brain cancer
This project hopes to provide clues towards much needed alternative treatments for when current treatments stop working on childhood brain cancers.
Researcher: Professor Adrian Bracken
Beating treatment resistance in childhood brain cancers
Complete Spain
General cancer research
This project hopes to find a way for a current bowel cancer treatment to work on more patients by exploring if it can be combined with a clever new technology.
Researcher: Dr Pierre Guermonpre
Gene-editing stem cells to improve immunotherapies
Complete France
Adrenal cancer
Researchers hope to kickstart new ways of preventing and treating this rare but aggressive disease in women specifically since they are at higher risk.
Researcher: Dr Andreas Schedl
Why are women more at risk of adrenal cancer?