Research projects

This exciting Curestarter-funded research in Belgium is looking for new breast cancer cures. Dr Scheele and Dr Halberg are investigating how obesity can cause cancer to start - and how to stop it. 

Immunotherapy doesn't work for all cancer patients so with your support Dr Eduardo Bonavita is exploring a new way to boost our immune system to help therapy work for more people around the world. 

By finding out how cancer cells acquire the survival skills needed to thrive in other parts of the by body, Curestarter researcher Professor Zippo hopes to discover new ways to stop cancer spreading, making it easier to cure. 

Dr Maite Huarte in Spain is using Curestarter support to look for new cures for fast growing bowel cancer that can be difficult to treat. 

Thanks to your support, Dr Daniel Hodson is using innovative technologies to look for new ways to stop lymphoma, by better understanding how it starts. 

Curestarter researcher Dr Rhys Morgan is investigating clues towards a new, better way to treat a particularly fast-growing type of leukaemia. 

Our pancreatic cancer research project in Qatar is investigating a possible new way to improve treatment success for patients. Dr Khan and his team are hoping to make cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

Dr Papa in Australia wants to find a new way to treat breast cancer, that could work in combination with current treatments. This will help tackle treatment resistance. 

Our innovative project in Greece is investigating a whole new way to stop cancer. Dr George Zachos is doing vital discovery work to understand how DNA changes in cells are linked to cancer to find clues to new cures.