Research projects

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. 

Researchers are exploring the role cancer stem cells play in cancers coming back after treatment, to try to stop this happening so often in patients. 

Exploring if stopping glioblastoma cells taking in new ‘batteries’ from healthy cells could be a new way to treat this particularly aggressive cancer. 

Immunotherapy currently does not work for half of all melanoma patients. This project hopes that understanding allergic reactions could lead to new solutions.