Research project A

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. 

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. 

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.