Research projects
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
This team hope to make discoveries about the immune system that will kickstart new treatments, making them successful for more patients in the future.
Researcher: Professor David Withers
Tracking immune cells to improve immunotherapy
Complete United Kingdom
Sarcoma
Late stage sarcomas remain very hard to treat and not enough is understood about them, so this project hopes to be the starting point for vital new sarcoma cures.
Researcher: Professor Kevin Hiom
Understanding the development of sarcoma – a rare tissue cancer
Complete Italy
General cancer research
Researchers hope to find ways for immunotherapy to help more patients by learning how cancer cells hide from the immune system and stopping them hiding.
Researcher: Dr Vincenzo Costanzo
What can the placenta teach us about cancer?
Complete Italy
Breast cancer
Even if treatment is successful cancer can come back so researchers hope to find new ways to kill even the hidden cancer cells and improve patient outcomes.
Researcher: Dr Sirio Dupont
How can breast cancer be stopped from coming back
Active United Kingdom
Sarcoma
Many synovial sarcoma tumour patients don’t respond well to treatments so this project wants to find new cures by better understanding what causes it.
Researcher: Dr Gerard Brien
Understanding the cause of synovial sarcoma to improve survival
Complete Australia
Neuroblastoma
This project studies how certain mutations drive the development of neuroblastoma and aims to identify new cures - providing hope for families affected.
Researcher: Dr Grant Dewson
Finding new ways to treat neuroblastoma – a common childhood cancer
Complete Italy
Breast cancer
Researchers are developing a highly innovative way to deliver treatments directly to tumours to improve survival rates of aggressive breast cancer.
Researcher: Dr Greta Varchi
Developing a delivery system to improve treatment for aggressive breast cancer
Complete Australia
Melanoma
Immunotherapy has helped improve melanoma survival rates but it doesn’t work for everyone so this project hopes to find ways for more patients to benefit.
Researcher: Professor Ruth Ganss
Improving the effect of immunotherapies for melanoma skin cancer
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
Researchers hope to discover which cancers are likely to respond best to different treatment options, to improve patient outcomes in the future.
Researcher: Dr Peter Sarkies
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