Research projects

These Curestarters in Spain are looking into why people with asthma have lower rates of pancreatic cancer and hope this could lead to new ways to prevent pancreatic cancer.

This exciting project is hoping to uncover new cures for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), and fundamentally change how we treat patients with other blood cancers too. 

Dr Gary Clifford and his team want to design a new test that can detect anal cancer early, so that more people with the disease can receive treatment while it is still curable and before their disease has advanced.

Thanks to Curestarter support, Professor Brian Huntly hopes to discover a new way to treat acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) by exploring how a genetic mutation causes the cancer to grow. His team in Cambridge hope by better understanding how the leukaemia starts they can find clues towards a vital new cure.

Thanks to Curestarters, this research is looking at how to strengthen healthy cells to stop bowel cancer developing. 

Dr Olle Sangfelt and his team in Sweden are developing an exciting new way to treat neuroblastoma, a-devastating childhood cancer.

Thanks to your support, this team in Switzerland are exploring how breast cancer develops and how to stop it. 

Curestarter researcher Dr Klaus Pors is hoping to find a new cure for treating triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive and hard to treat form of the disease. 

With your support, Professor Lesley Stark and her team in Edinburgh hope to find new ways to prevent cancer linked to ageing. This has huge potential to reveal new approaches to cancer treatment or to prevent it developing in older people.