Professor Clare Isacke is the Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre and heads the Molecular Cell Biology Team. The main focus of her laboratory is the spread of cancer from the breast to other sites in the body (the process known as metastasis). Her team work to achieve a much better understanding of how cancers acquire the ability to grow into surrounding healthy tissue and to then spread around the body. They then use this data to identify possible ways to prevent cancers from doing this. And finally they hope to translate this information to develop new treatment options for breast cancer patients.
She joined the Centre in 2001 and quickly realised that Breakthrough Breast Cancer had generated an amazing environment with a Centre in which scientists and clinicians with different expertises could work together for the common goal of creating a future free from the fear of breast cancer.
Clare says: "I have witnessed the huge progress that has been made by the Centre in understanding the causes of breast cancer, improving diagnosis and bring new treatments into the clinic. None of this work could have been possible without the fantastic generosity of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer supporters. I am proud to be a scientist in the Centre and to have met so many supporters who give up their valuable time to support Breakthrough Breast Cancer."
Clare also took part in the 2010 Breakthrough Booby Birds, where she jumped out of a plane to raise £20,000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
"I have witnessed the huge progress that has been made by the Centre in understanding the causes of breast cancer, improving diagnosis and bring new treatments into the clinic"
