Research projects
Complete Italy
Pancreatic cancer
This project hopes to find vital clues towards much needed new cures for pancreatic cancer by finding out more about the communication within cancer cells.
Researcher: Dr Alessandro Carrer
Studying communication between the powerhouse and the brain of the cell to stop cancer growth
Complete Spain
Bowel cancer
Sometimes cancer treatment stops working if cancers become resistant to therapy so this team hope to improve survival rates by exploring potential new drugs.
Researcher: Dr Maite Huarte
Identifying new therapeutic approaches for treatment-resistant bowel cancer
Complete Spain
General cancer research
Stopping cancer spreading makes it easier to treat, so this project hopes to discover the processes involved in cancer spreading and find clues for new cures.
Researcher: Dr Toni Celià-Terrassa
Peer pressure: how cancer cells spread and how to stop them
Complete Italy
General cancer research
Researchers hope to better understand the communication inside cancer cells to make discoveries that can pave the way for new cures in a variety of cancer types.
Researcher: Dr Sara Sigismund
Touching membranes – understanding how different parts of the cell communicate
Active Italy
Leukaemia
Researchers hope to discover how to treat leukaemia that has returned after therapy by better understanding the mechanism that causes cancer to come back.
Researcher: Dr Vincenzo Giambra
Exploring how stem cells help cancer evade chemotherapy
Complete Spain
Breast cancer
Researchers believe that trying different combinations of treatments has potential to greatly improve the outcome for patients with a wide variety of cancers.
Researcher: Professor Marcos Malumbres
Working together – combining opposing therapies for the greater good
Complete France
General cancer research
By discovering more about how and why cancer develops this research team hope to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer in the future.
Researcher: Dr Allison Bardin
Using fruit flies to unravel how cancer starts
Complete Belgium
Liver cancer
Liver cancer is very hard to treat but this team hope to better understand whether an exciting new potential treatment could help or patients in the future.
Researcher: Professor Georg Halder
A new ground-breaking approach to bile duct cancer and liver cancer
Complete Germany
Oesophageal cancer
By comparing oesophageal cancer cells to healthy cells researchers hope to find clues towards much needed new treatments and improve the poor survival rates.
Researcher: Dr Denes Hnisz
Unravelling the genetic background of oesophageal cancerWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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