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Individual research projects

Right now, we’re funding around 100 cutting-edge projects worth almost £32 million. All to discover how we can prevent and diagnose breast cancer earlier, find better treatments, and improve people's quality of life.

Our research projects

Nick, a man with short brown hair, brown eyes and black framed glasses wearing a white shirt, posing for portraits in the ICR corridors with BCN branded colours in the background.

The Catalyst Programme: Testing a combination of CDK4/6 inhibitor and immunotherapy to treat triple negative breast cancer

Professor Nicholas Turner

Amy and Montse in front of the Institute of Cancer Research building

The Generations Study

Professor Montserrat Garcia-Closas and Professor Amy Berrington

Professor Leonie Young

The Catalyst Programme: Testing if PARP inhibitors could be used to treat secondary breast cancer in the brain

Professor Leonie Young

Professor Matthew Smalley and Giusy Tornillo posing for photos in a laboratory.

The Catalyst Programme: Finding new ways to make immunotherapies more effective

Dr Anne Armstrong

Professor Greg Hannon and his team of researchers. They are all sat in a brightly lit room in front of a window.

The Catalyst Programme: Understanding how breast cancer becomes resistant to treatments

Professor Greg Hannon

Rachael, a woman with shoulder length hair and brown eyes, Alejandro, with short dark hair, and dark framed glasses, a white BCN lab coat, smiling for portraits in a white lab coat, with the laboratory in the background.

The Catalyst Programme: Understanding the role of SF3B1 in breast cancer

Dr Rachael Natrajan

Dr Helfrid Hochegger

The Catalyst Programme: Understanding whether the combination of a new kinase inhibitor and palbociclib could be used to treat triple negative breast cancer

Dr Helfrid Hochegger

Pascal and his team, Alberto, Angel, Carmo, Crescens, Stathios, Jarama, Jonathan, Natalia, Rebecca, Sidonie, Tencho and Winnie, posing for a portrait together, all in white lab coats with the laboratory in the background.

Cell Death and Immunity team

Professor Pascal Meier

Dr Robert Falconer

Designing new potent chemotherapy drugs that exclusively kill cancer cells

Dr Robert Falconer

Professor Sophia Karagiannis, posing for portraits at the KCL ICR. (Wearing a brown silk top and grey scarf)

Antibody therapy and biomarker discovery team

Professor Sophia Karagiannis

Anita, with light hair and a turquoise top, posing for photos in her office. Behind her is a large plant, and window with a skyscraper view of London.

Cancer Bioinformatics Team

Professor Anita Grigoriadis

Andrew Tutt wearing glasses, a blue shirt, black sweater, and dark blazer, posing for photo in the ICR corridor, with the BCN colours in the background.

Target validation and DNA damage response team

Professor Andrew Tutt

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