Research projects

Complete Switzerland

General cancer research

Can we “switch on" immune cells in a tumour or nearby?

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

Can we stop cancer cells fixing their damaged DNA?

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
Pipsa Saharinen Headshot

Complete Finland

General cancer research

How do cancer’s access the body’s blood system to help them spread?

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

Can we stop pancreatic cancer cells communicating with healthy cells?

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

Will disrupting a cellular communication network work as a new cure?

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

Can we ‘reverse’ the leukaemia promoting environment?

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
Adrian Bracken Headshot

Complete Ireland

Brain cancer

Can we stop childhood brain cancer becoming resistant to treatment?

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

Can genetic engineering help improve bowel cancer treatment?

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

Why are women more at risk of adrenal cancer than men?

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?