Research projects

For some patients, cancer can return after successful radiotherapy treatment. This project aims to discover new information about how we could reduce this chance.

This project studies how certain mutations drive the development of neuroblastoma and aims to identify new cures - providing hope for families affected.

Once cancer has spread, or metastasised, it often becomes incurable. This project is investigating new ways to deliver drugs specifically to metastatic tumours.

By understanding the link between structures in our cells called 'centromeres' and cancer development, this team aim to find possible new ways to target cancer.

Chemotherapy is one of the most common cancer treatments but it doesn't work for everyone so this team want to understand why so they can make it more successful. 

Adrenocortical cancer is rare and aggressive, with limited treatments. These researchers have found exciting signs that testosterone could help slow its growth. 

This project hopes to new ways to target cancer without affecting healthy tissue, leading to kinder and groundbreaking cures for lung cancer and mesothelioma.

Obesity makes it easier for breast cancer to spread but this project will try to find out why to hopefully reveal new ways to stop breast cancer spreading.

This project explores if ‘niches’ in our bone marrow might help to support leukaemia cells to grow, and if this could be a new target for leukaemia treatments.