Research projects

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. 

Researchers hope to reveal ways to diagnose oesophageal cancer sooner and help treatments work better by better understanding the earliest stages of the disease.

Infant leukaemia is very difficult to treat so researchers are hoping to better understand its unique biology to reveal vital better and kinder treatments.

This project hopes to reveal new, better, immunotherapy treatments for leukaemia by boosting a different cell in our immune system from other treatments. 

Exploring how ‘messages’ sent from cancer cells to other parts of the body might help cancers to spread and whether new cures could stop this process.

Researchers hope to improve outcomes for brain cancer patients by explore whether tumours with particular mutations can be treated using a targeted therapy 

Lots of cancer drugs cause nasty side effects by affecting healthy cells, so this project is looking for ways to turn on drugs only when they are in the tumour. 

Immunotherapy doesn’t always work but researchers hope to find ways to re-wire some of our cells so that these treatments can help more patients in the future.

Stopping breast cancer spreading would make it much easier to treat so this project is exploring a molecule that appears to stop tumours spreading.