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Uncovering how a faulty BRCA2 gene causes breast cancer to develop
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
How cancer develops
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How genetic mutations in healthy blood cells can help drive lymphoma development
Cancer type
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Research goal
How cancer works
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Understanding why treatments don’t work for some non-smoking lung cancer patients
Cancer type
Lung cancer
Research goal
Overcoming treatment resistance
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Using AI to predict drug resistance mutations in breast cancer
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
Improving diagnosis
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Targeting the gut microbiome to make immunotherapies more effective
Cancer type
Bowel cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Project
Model brains: Using fruit flies to understand how brain tumours spread
Cancer type
Brain
Research goal
How cancer works
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Understanding why treatment resistance develops
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
Overcoming treatment resistance
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Targeting nuclear rupture: a new weakness to exploit in cancer
Cancer type
Breast
Ovarian
General cancer research
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Improving our understanding of how to treat kidney cancer
Cancer type
Kidney
Research goal
How cancer works
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What’s the risk? Predicting endometrial cancer using genetics and measures of obesity
Cancer type
Endometrial cancer
Research goal
Cancer prevention
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Understanding how melanoma adapts to spread and seed new tumours
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
How cancer works
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A new approach to eradicate pancreatic tumours
Cancer type
Pancreatic cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Understanding how immune cells participate in the spread of pancreatic cancer
Cancer type
Pancreatic cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Developing a new targeted treatment for lung cancer
Cancer type
Lung cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Blocking bio-parcels to stop breast cancer spreading
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Project
Tipping the scales: How a genetic mutation makes cells unstable
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Understanding the causes of lymphoma in children
Cancer type
Childhood lymphoma
Research goal
How cancer develops
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Visualising the earliest stages of cancer
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer develops
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Understanding how inherited genetic risks are triggered to become leukaemia
Cancer type
Leukaemia
Research goal
How cancer develops
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Understanding how colorectal tumours hijack healthy cells
Cancer type
Bowel cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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How immune cells are activated to attack melanoma
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
Improving current treatments
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Developing a new model of the immune response to tumours
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Uncovering how breast cancer recruits healthy cells to grow and spread
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Reversing resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
Overcoming treatment resistance
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Project
Developing ultra-sensitive MRI that spots cancer sooner
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
Improving cancer diagnosis
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Resisting resistance: How melanoma cells survive targeted therapy
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
Overcoming treatment resistance
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Improving the effect of immunotherapies for melanoma skin cancer
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
Improving current treatment
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Unravelling the genetic background of oesophageal cancer
Cancer type
Oesophageal cancer
Research goal
How cancer develops
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Epigenetics – exploring one of cancer’s weak spots
Cancer type
General cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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A new ground-breaking approach to bile duct cancer and liver cancer
Cancer type
Liver cancer
Research goal
New targeted therapies
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