Research projects

Our project in Spain co-funded with AECC is hoping to stop bowel cancer spreading. If we can understand more about how bowel cancer spreads, we can develop new and better ways to treat this type of disease.

Our project in Spain is looking for cures for the childhood tumour diffuse midline glioma (DMG). Dr Alieva hopes to find out more about how DMGs begin to grow, so that new treatments can be developed for this devastating disease. 

Curestarter researcher Professor Ghigo is finding new ways to prevent long-term side effects of chemotherapy, and improve the lives of people who have been through cancer

Dr Sdelci in Spain is using Curestarter funding to explore a cancer-causing gene and look for clues towards new ways to treat cancer. 

This project hopes to find a way for immunotherapies to work better, for more cancer patients. Using cutting-edge technologies they will test out a potential new way to treat cancer and explore how to advance it towards the clinic. 

This project hopes to develop a new way to identify and target prostate and breast cancer cells in the body using tiny molecular ‘flags’, called minibodies. 

This project aims to find vital new treatments for advanced prostate cancer that stops responding to other treatments or comes back after treatment.

Werner Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that increases the risk of bowel cancer. Discovering more about this link could lead to new treatments.

Most cancer deaths are caused by cancer spreading to different organs so this project hopes to find a new way to detect and even stop cancer spreading.