Research projects

Dr Sdelci in Spain is using Curestarter funding to explore a cancer-causing gene and look for clues towards new ways to treat cancer. 

This project hopes to find a way for immunotherapies to work better, for more cancer patients. Using cutting-edge technologies they will test out a potential new way to treat cancer and explore how to advance it towards the clinic. 

This project hopes to develop a new way to identify and target prostate and breast cancer cells in the body using tiny molecular ‘flags’, called minibodies. 

This project aims to find vital new treatments for advanced prostate cancer that stops responding to other treatments or comes back after treatment.

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. 

Researchers want to discover why cancer rarely develops in the heart, hopefully leading to a new wearable device that can stop cancer spreading in other organs.