Research projects
Active Netherlands
Melanoma
This project hopes to find new ways to stop cancer spreading and stop it resisting treatments by understanding better how cancer cells collaborate.
Researcher: Professor Peter Friedl
Do cancer cells work “collectively” to survive?
Active United Kingdom
Breast cancer
This project is hoping to find smarter and kinder ways to treat breast cancer by destroying cancer cells in a different way from other cancer treatments.
Researcher: Professor Pascal Meier
Life, Death and Afterlife: Using cell death to boost our immune system
Active France
Brain cancer
This project hopes to better understand the mechanisms that help glioblastoma spread so commonly and so hard to treat, to discover vital new cures.
Researcher: Dr Sandrine Etienne-Manneville
Spotting the most aggressive glioblastoma cells
Active United Kingdom
General cancer research
Chemotherapy can sometimes stop working, so this project is hoping to better understand why and find ways to give more, better options to cancer patients.
Researcher: Dr Andrew Beekman
Stopping cancer becoming resistant to chemotherapy
Active Spain
Breast cancer
Since breast cancer is one of the most common cancers, researchers are hoping to find vital treatments by targeting a type of cell involved in cancer growth.
Researcher: Dr Joaquín Arribas
Seeking kinder treatments for breast cancer
Active Australia
Melanoma
Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer which can be hard to treat so this project is looking to kick-start a game-changing vaccine which could be a new type of cure.
Researcher: Dr Joanna Groom
Precision vaccines and the potential for better immunotherapies
Active United Kingdom
Oesophageal cancer
Researchers hope to reveal ways to diagnose oesophageal cancer sooner and help treatments work better by better understanding the earliest stages of the disease.
Researcher: Dr Diana Blaydon
Revealing the earliest signs of oesophageal cancer
Active United Kingdom
Leukaemia
Infant leukaemia is very difficult to treat so researchers are hoping to better understand its unique biology to reveal vital better and kinder treatments.
Researcher: Professor Katrin Ottersbach
Identifying new treatments for infant leukaemia
Active Australia
Leukaemia
This project hopes to reveal new, better, immunotherapy treatments for leukaemia by boosting a different cell in our immune system from other treatments.
Researcher: Professor Jamie Rossjohn
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