Research projects
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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?
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Leukaemia
By better understanding what makes leukaemia more destructive in some patients this project hopes to lead to the development of new, better treatments.
Researcher: Professor Pieter Van Vlierberghe
Investigating the role of stem cells in leukaemia in order to develop more effective treatments
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Lymphoma
This team hope to reveal new ways to treat blood cancer patients and their discoveries could potentially also benefit patients with many other types of cancer.
Researcher: Dr Arianna Sabò
Unravelling the interplay between two proteins in B-cell lymphomaWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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