Research projects

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.

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.