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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

Dr Kastytis Sidlauskas

Using artificial intelligence to help women with DCIS safely skip unnecessary treatment

Dr Kastytis Sidlauskas

A side view of a researcher wearing gloves holding small petri dishes.

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

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

Improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer

Professor Greg Hannon and Dr Kirsty Sawicka

Dr James Flanagan in the lab, smiling

Understanding how breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer

Dr James Flanagan

Awen Gallimore, posing for portraits.

Investigating how to improve immunotherapy for triple negative breast cancer

Professor Awen Gallimore

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

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

Dr Sankari Nagarajan

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

The Male Breast Cancer Study

Professor Montserrat Garcia-Closas and Professor Amy Berrington

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

Meng Lab Breast Cancer Team wearing white lab coats

Exploring the role of the internal clock in breast cancer

Professor Qing-Jun Meng