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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

Targeting immune cells to stop hibernating breast cancer cells from reawakening

Dr Frances Turrell

Investigating a new approach to prevent breast cancer recurrence

Professor Penelope Ottewell

Nick, Eugene, Ros, Istvan, Ruth, Heena, Aya, Elena, Maria, Issac, Niamh, Andrian, Emma, Callum, Sarah, Uzma, Alex, Lixhan and Laura, posing for a team photo in the ICR BCN branded corridor.

Molecular oncology team

Professor Nicholas Turner

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

Professor Manuela Barreto, Dr Char Goodwin and Professor Ginny Russell

Understanding and improving autistic adults’ experiences of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment

Professor Manuela Barreto, Dr Char Goodwin and Professor Ginny Russell

Professor Elinor Sawyer and her team standing in a lab

Personalised therapies for relapsed lobular breast cancer patients

Professor Elinor Sawyer

A researcher at the ICR using a pipette.

A dietary intervention in combination with targeted drugs for triple negative breast cancer

Professor Karen Vousden

Understanding how some triple negative breast cancers spread to other parts of the body

Dr Sankari Nagarajan

Seth, a man with no hair and blue eyes in a lab coat, posing for portraits.

Killer immune cells in secondary triple negative breast cancer

Professor Seth Coffelt

Rebecca Vince sitting in a chair smiling at the camera. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a blue sweater.

Improving the quality of life of women returning to the Workplace after Breast Cancer

Dr Rebecca Vince

David French and his research team stood outside of a building with brown bricks. There are 8 people, all smiling and wearing casual clothes.

Investigating the psychological impact of personalised breast cancer screening

Janet Brown smiling in front of a blue background. Janet has short grey hair, glasses and is wearing a black shirt.

Developing a blood test to predict someone’s risk of secondary breast cancer

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