Research projects
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General cancer research
Researchers hope to better understand the communication inside cancer cells to make discoveries that can pave the way for new cures in a variety of cancer types.
Researcher: Dr Sara Sigismund
Touching membranes – understanding how different parts of the cell communicate
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Leukaemia
Researchers hope to discover how to treat leukaemia that has returned after therapy by better understanding the mechanism that causes cancer to come back.
Researcher: Dr Vincenzo Giambra
Exploring how stem cells help cancer evade chemotherapy
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Breast cancer
Researchers believe that trying different combinations of treatments has potential to greatly improve the outcome for patients with a wide variety of cancers.
Researcher: Professor Marcos Malumbres
Working together – combining opposing therapies for the greater good
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General cancer research
By discovering more about how and why cancer develops this research team hope to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer in the future.
Researcher: Dr Allison Bardin
Using fruit flies to unravel how cancer starts
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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
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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
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Breast cancer
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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Leukaemia
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
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Liver cancer
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 therapyWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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