Research projects

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.

Discovering how cancer cells generate the energy they need and whether we can stop this process, to find possible new targets for cancer treatments.

This project is finding out more about a key molecule in the growth of acute myeloid leukaemia to hopefully reveal clues to better, more effective treatments.

Researchers are hoping to pave the way towards much needed new lung cancer therapies using helpful microbes to boost therapies and improve survival rates.

By furthering our knowledge about the thousands of genes that are contained in each cancer cell, this project aims to find brand new combinations of cancer drugs. 

This project could uncover new ways to help predict who would benefit from an existing breast cancer treatment, and improve its effectiveness for more patients.