Research projects

Thanks to our Curestarters, Dr Rouschop is exploring a particular cancer cell vulnerability - their inability to recycle. He hopes to create tailored cancer therapies with fewer side effects. 

Our project in Spain is exploring an innovative new 'dual-action' cancer cure. Immunotherapy and chemotherapy are two cancer treatments - Dr Rujas has the bright idea of combining both therapies to create a new, better treatment for patients. 

Patients often respond well to chemotherapy only to later develop treatment resistance – meaning the cancer comes back and the chemotherapy has stopped working. Professor Maiato wants to find ways to prevent this treatment resistance.

Dr Karpowicz believes one of the causes of bowel cancer could be that changes to our lifestyle disturb the circadian rhythm of our guts – and with the support of our Curestarters he will be able to test this idea. 

Our project in Spain co-funded with AECC is hoping to stop bowel cancer spreading. If we can understand more about how bowel cancer spreads, we can develop new and better ways to treat this type of disease.

Our project in Spain is looking for cures for the childhood tumour diffuse midline glioma (DMG). Dr Alieva hopes to find out more about how DMGs begin to grow, so that new treatments can be developed for this devastating disease. 

This project hopes to find a way for immunotherapies to work better, for more cancer patients. Using cutting-edge technologies they will test out a potential new way to treat cancer and explore how to advance it towards the clinic. 

This project hopes to develop a new way to identify and target prostate and breast cancer cells in the body using tiny molecular ‘flags’, called minibodies. 

This project aims to find vital new treatments for advanced prostate cancer that stops responding to other treatments or comes back after treatment.