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
Using artificial intelligence to help women with DCIS safely skip unnecessary treatment
Dr Kastytis Sidlauskas
The Male Breast Cancer Study
Professor Montserrat Garcia-Closas and Professor Amy Berrington
Investigating how the bacteria in our gut could help us against breast cancer
Dr Stephen Robinson
Understanding the experiences of black women taking hormone therapy
Dr Lyndsay Hughes
Improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer
Professor Greg Hannon and Dr Kirsty Sawicka
Understanding how breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer
Dr James Flanagan
Investigating how to improve immunotherapy for triple negative breast cancer
Professor Awen Gallimore
Understanding and improving autistic adults’ experiences of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
Professor Manuela Barreto, Dr Char Goodwin and Professor Ginny Russell
Finding new ways to predict if hormone treatment is working
Mrs Jane Macaskill (originally submitted by Professor Andrew Evans)
Finding new weaknesses in triple negative breast cancer
Professor Tyson Valentine Sharp
Investigating how a protein called Tspan6 affects immune cells in breast cancer
Professor Fedor Berditchevski