Research projects

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Active Germany

Breast cancer

Can we create ultra-sensitive MRI that spots cancer sooner?

Researchers are trying to improve ways of spotting cancer that has spread to the lungs to help patients sooner and give them better treatment options.

Researcher: Dr Leif Schröder

Developing ultra-sensitive MRI that spots cancer sooner
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Complete France

Breast cancer

Can AI predict which patients will become resistant to treatment?

Researchers hope to find better, more personalised treatments for breast cancer patients by identifying characteristics that predict how a tumour will behave.

Researcher: Dr Anne Vincent-Salomon

Using AI to predict drug resistance mutations in breast cancer
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Complete Australia

Breast cancer

How do breast cancers recruit healthy cells to grow and spread?

Breast cancer is much harder to treat once it spreads so the team hope to better understand the processes through which tumours spread and find new ways to stop it.

Researcher: Dr Michael Samuel

Uncovering how breast cancer recruits healthy cells to grow and spread
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Complete Italy

Breast cancer

How can breast cancer be stopped from coming back?

Even if treatment is successful cancer can come back so researchers hope to find new ways to kill even the hidden cancer cells and improve patient outcomes.

Researcher: Dr Sirio Dupont

How can breast cancer be stopped from coming back

Complete Italy

Breast cancer

Can we design better treatments for triple-negative breast cancer?

Researchers are developing a highly innovative way to deliver treatments directly to tumours to improve survival rates of aggressive breast cancer.

Researcher: Dr Greta Varchi

Developing a delivery system to improve treatment for aggressive breast cancer
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Complete Ireland

Breast cancer

How can we start new cures for invasive lobular breast cancer?

This project hopes to pave the way towards more treatment options for patients with a type of breast cancer which often becomes resistant to current therapies.

Researcher: Professor Darran O'Connor

Finding a new treatment for invasive lobular breast cancer
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Complete Spain

Breast cancer

Could opposing cancer treatments actually work well together?

Researchers believe that trying different combinations of treatments has potential to greatly improve the outcome for patients with a wide variety of cancers.

Researcher: Professor Marcos Malumbres

Working together – combining opposing therapies for the greater good

Complete Israel

Breast cancer

How does breast cancer spreads to the bones and can we stop it?

This project hopes to discover clues towards new cures that would stop breast cancer spreading, which could dramatically improve outcomes for patients.

Researcher: Dr Neta Erez

Understanding how breast cancer spreads to the bones – and how to stop it

Complete Spain

Breast cancer

Can radiotherapy work better against cancers that spread to the brain?

The location of brain cancer makes it particularly hard to treat so this team hope to find ways to improve radiotherapy so it can benefit more patients.

Researcher: Dr Manuel Valiente

Making radiotherapy more effective against cancers that have spread to the brain

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