Research projects
Complete USA
Pancreatic cancer
This research team hope to discover clues towards much needed new treatments for pancreatic cancer so that survival rates for patients improve.
Researcher: Dr Edna Cukierman
Getting on cancer's nerves: exploring how the tumour's environment helps it grow
Complete Italy
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is very difficult to treat but this project hopes more patients in the future will be helped by discovering more personalised treatments.
Researcher: Dr Miriam Martini
Understanding how we could target pancreatic cancer's Achilles' heel
Complete Australia
Melanoma
Researchers hope to find ways for immunotherapy to help more patients by understanding how particular cells in our immune system could give treatments a boost.
Researcher: Dr Meredith O'Keeffe
Investigating the effect of immune therapy on certain immune cells
Complete Israel
General cancer research
This project hopes to kickstart a new cancer cure that could help patients in the future whilst reducing the side effects that come with current treatments.
Researcher: Professor Niv Papo
Developing a therapy for a challenging but promising target in cancer
Complete Spain
General cancer research
Researchers hope to find out how the time of day influences how well cancer patients respond to therapy so that treatments can improve and work for more people.
Researcher: Professor Cristina Lopez-Rodriguez
Off the clock: understanding immune cell’s circadian rhythm to improve anti-tumour therapies
Complete United Kingdom
General cancer research
This team hope to kickstart a way to more accurately diagnose patients and find clues towards new treatments by finding a new marker to detect cancer.
Researcher: Professor Edward Tate
Probing a group of proteins to develop novel ways to detect and treat cancer
Complete Spain
Pancreatic cancer
Survival rates for pancreatic cancer are worryingly poor so this project hopes to find new drug targets that could be used to develop much needed new therapies.
Researcher: Dr Patricia Sancho
The importance of fat in the aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer
Complete Singapore
Ovarian cancer
Researchers hope to help patients with aggressive ovarian cancer by investigating if a different existing drug could be effective at attacking cancer cells
Researcher: Dr Chit Fang Cheok
Using a tapeworm killer to treat ovarian cancer
Complete United Kingdom
Oesophageal cancer
Oesophageal cancer is very tricky to diagnose making it hard to treat, so researchers want to find new markers to detect it earlier and improve survival rates.
Researcher: Dr Maria Alcolea
Finding ways to detect oesophageal cancer soonerWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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