Research projects

Werner Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that increases the risk of bowel cancer. Discovering more about this link could lead to new treatments.

Most cancer deaths are caused by cancer spreading to different organs so this project hopes to find a new way to detect and even stop cancer spreading.

Using fruit flies to discover how glioblastoma ‘hijacks’ blood vessels and takes nutrients from healthy cells, so possible new treatment targets can be found.

Researchers are exploring how liver cells respond to stress causes by liver disease,  how this links to cancer development and if it can be stopped. 

Discovering why cancer rarely develops in the heart will hopefully lead to an exciting new wearable device to stop cancer spreading in other organs. 

JMML (Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia) affects very young children and is hard to treat, so this project is looking at what causes it to try to find new cures.

Discovering more about how mesothelioma cells behave could reveal clues about how to better diagnose or prevent this aggressive type of cancer.

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

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