Research projects

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General cancer research
This project hopes to reveal new knowledge about how tumours develop to lead the way to potential new drugs and treatments with fewer side effects in patients.
Researcher: Dr Alejandro Vaquero
Unpicking the role enzymes called sirtuins play in cancer
Complete Spain
Breast cancer
This project aims to reveal how parts of our diet could help cancer to spread and how to target this process to create future cures for a range of different cancers.
Researcher: Professor Salvador Aznar-Benitah
Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?
Complete Australia
Breast cancer
Researchers are aiming to find out how to kick-start the immune system in aggressive breast cancer patients so that survival rates improve in the future.
Researcher: Professor Tony Tiganis
Kick-starting the immune system in an aggressive type of breast cancer
Complete Australia
Lymphoma
This team are exploring how the immune system is activated to find a way for blood cancer patients’ own immune systems to be equipped to attack the disease.
Researcher: Professor Philip Hodgkin
Like molecular clockwork – how biological timers control the immune system
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General cancer research
The team are hoping to find out how cancer cells get their energy so that we can shut this process down, leading the way to improved treatments for patients in the future.
Researcher: Dr Angel Nebreda
Shutting off cancer's energy supply
Complete Argentina
Prostate cancer
This project hopes to kickstart game-changing new treatments for patients with advanced prostate cancer and maybe even other types of cancer too.
Researcher: Dr Diego Laderach
Turning “sweet” on cancer – developing an entirely new way to fight cancer
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
Cancer cells sometimes repair the damage caused by drugs so this project hopes to disrupt this repair system and make treatments work better for patients.
Researcher: Professor Anton Gartner
Using worms to improve the use of chemotherapy
Complete United Kingdom
Kaposi's sarcoma
This project hopes to find new ways to stop the virus which causes a rare form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma which is becoming more common in some countries.
Researcher: Professor Adrian Whitehouse
Stopping Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) in its tracks
Complete Spain
General cancer research
These researchers aim to understand how tumour and fat cells communicate to kickstart new ways to stop cancer spreading and make it easier to treat.
Researcher: Dr Hector Peinado Selgas
How does obesity increase the risk of cancer spread?