Research projects

This innovative Curestarter-funded research in Italy is exploring ways to make chemotherapy work better for people with bowel cancer, so fewer lives are cut short. 

This exciting project in Italy, funded by you, is studying how cancer cells communicate to look for new ways to treat lung cancer. 

Curestarter researcher Dr Sancho in Spain is hoping to improve immunotherapy so it can be used to treat cancer more effectively for more patients. 

This pioneering research in Spain, co-funded with AECC, will use exciting AI technology to look for new cancer cures. Dr Lietha hopes this will lead to a whole new way to treat cancer. 

Thanks to our Curestarters, Professor Delwel and his team in the Netherlands hope to find a much-needed new leukaemia cure. Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) can sometimes be caused by a specific gene, so by better understanding this gene we can look for new cures. 

Dr Schuijers and his team in the Netherlands are using Curestarter funding to look for new bowel cancer cures. The team think that disrupting certain 'droplets' could be a powerful new way to stop cancer. 

Our project in Spain is exploring how to make pancreatic cancer treatments work better. Dr Vincent and his team are searching for a way to boost the effectiveness of a new treatment called KRAS inhibitors, so they can help more people.

This exciting research funded by Curestarters is looking boosting cancer treatments so they can help more patients. Dr Teijeira is developing a new kind of treatment to work alongside immunotherapies.

Dr Ip in Australia is hoping to find new treatment targets for an aggressive form of childhood brain cancer. Thanks to our Curestarters this will help the quest for vital new cures.