Research projects
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
Complete 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
Epigenetics – exploring one of cancer’s weak spots
Complete Spain
Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer can be very hard to treat when found at a later stage so this project hopes to pave the way towards future cures for these more aggressive cancers.
Researcher: Dr Mariona Graupera
How can healthy cells contribute to aggressive prostate cancer?
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
This project hopes to open up exciting possibilities for personalised cancer treatment by finding how to predict which patients will respond best to treatment.
Researcher: Professor Tim Elliott
Finding ways to predict which patients will respond to immunotherapy
Complete United Kingdom
Lymphoma
This project will explore a cancer mutation which could be key to finding new way stop cancer progressing, opening the door to future new treatments.
Researcher: Professor Richard Jenner
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