Research projects
Active United Kingdom
Breast cancer
Curestarter researcher Dr Klaus Pors is hoping to find a new cure for treat triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive and hard to treat form of the disease.
Researcher: Dr Klaus Pors
Can a new treatment target triple-negative breast cancer?
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Bowel cancer
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.
Researcher: Professor Lesley Stark
Journey to the centre of a cell: why does age matter in cancer?
Active Italy
Bowel cancer
This innovative Curestarter-funded research in Italy is exploring ways to make chemotherapy work better for people with bowel cancer, so fewer lives are cut short.
Researcher: Dr Eros Di Giorgio
Could ‘reprogramming’ bowel cancer cells make chemotherapy more effective?
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Lung cancer
This exciting project in Italy, funded by you, is studying how cancer cells communicate to look for new ways to treat lung cancer.
Researcher: Dr Federica Benvenuti
Can studying the earliest stages of lung cancer lead to better treatments?
Active Spain
General cancer research
Curestarter researcher Dr Sancho in Spain is hoping to improve immunotherapy so it can be used to treat cancer more effectively for more patients.
Researcher: Dr David Sancho
Scouts and Soldiers – can we foster an immune interaction to kill cancer cells?
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General cancer research
This pioneering research in Spain, co-funded with AECC, will use exciting AI technology to look for new cancer cures. Dr Lietha hopes this will lead to a whole new way to treat cancer.
Researcher: Dr Daniel Lietha
Could innovative AI technology revolutionise cancer treatment?
Active Netherlands
Leukaemia
Thanks to our Curestarters, Professor Delwel and his team in the Netherlands hope to find a much-needed new leukaemia cure. Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) can sometimes be caused by a specific gene, so by better understanding this gene we can look for new cures.
Researcher: Professor Ruud Delwel
Mission impossible: how can we target “Evi1” leukaemias?
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Bowel cancer
Dr Schuijers and his team in the Netherlands are using Curestarter funding to look for new bowel cancer cures. The team think that disrupting certain 'droplets' could be a powerful new way to stop cancer.
Researcher: Dr Jurian Schuijers
Could targeting tiny droplets inside cells help to treat bowel cancer?