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👏 Great work by the Institute's #GreenTeam today who put on a fantastic 'Zero to Landfill' event to showcase some of the green initiatives we've implemented, alongside the Cambridge University Estates Division and The Environmental Sustainability Team, to reduce the environmental impact of our research ♻️
What can a career in cancer research look like? 🧪
Join Prof Sarah Bohndiek, Dr Fazlur Rahman Talukdar, PhD and Dr Katherine Davidson who will be joining Form the Future's virtual Guide to Careers in Healthcare and Life Sciences!
🗓️ Tues 23 April
⏲️ 7 pm
💻 Sign up here:
events.zoom.us/ev/AmfFQQpWZF2…
🎉 Congratulations to Prof Sir Shankar Balasubramanian who, together with co-inventor Prof Sir David KlenermanLab, receives the 2024 Canada Gairdner Foundation.
Cambridge Chemistry | Trinity College | Cambridge University | Illumina | Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK
Read more here ⤵️
shorturl.at/gv289
🎙️ LISTEN IN!
PhD student Sigourney Bonner in The Gilbertson Lab is the latest guest on the #InsideCancerCareers podcast by National Cancer Institute.
Discussion includes detail of BlackinCancer's upcoming conference, organised by Sigourney who is CEO of the organisation.
➡️ shorturl.at/dguOZ
What IS cancer❓
Over the last few weeks, the Cambridge Festival has been a wonderful opportunity to have our own research mirrored back to us by the local community.
At the Big Cambridge Biomedical Campus Day, we asked visitors what they understand cancer to be.
Check out the word cloud! ☁️
Have you checked out Dr Ania Piskorz's Behind the Lab Coat yet?!
Since she joined the CRUK Cambridge Institute in 2010 she has progressed from research assistant to Head of Genomics, gaining confidence along the way 🧬
Watch here 👉 shorturl.at/kmnv2
Read here 👉 shorturl.at/gjsBW
A tremendous example of work by CRUK Cambridge Institute researchers making its way from the lab bench towards the patient beside 👏
Mission Therapeutics was co-founded by Steve Jackson Lab in 2011 with a focus on translating DNA repair research into potential therapeutics.
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Enormous congratulations to Dr Maike de la Roche Lab CRUK who wins Entrepreneurial Group Leader of the Year!! 🏆
We had a FANTASTIC time at Cambridge Festival Big Biomedical Campus day!🌟🔬
Our staff volunteers loved meeting young scientists in the #CamFestCancerZone 🧪
We'll also be at the Family Weekend with lots of fun activities, including our pipetting challenge, this Sat 25 & Sun 26th!
🌟👏🏆 Congratulations are in order!!
Our Senior Group Leader Prof Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, together with his co-inventor Prof Sir David KlenermanLab, have been awarded the Novo Nordisk Prize 2024!
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Novo Nordisk Foundation | Cambridge University | Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK
PhD student Catarina Pelicano was among early career researchers who presented their work to Parliament at STEM for Britain '24.
The event enabled her to speak to MPs, including Daniel Zeichner, about her research, which seeks to identify future therapies for pancreatic cancer.
To all #WomenInSTEM , your resilience, curiosity and creativity are shaping the future of #CancerResearch , helping the life sciences community to be more diverse and inclusive.
Join us in celebrating #IWD24 with inspiring stories: bit.ly/3uQIdnC
#DiversityinSTEM
Wahoo! 🌟 Dr Maike de la Roche Lab CRUK is shortlisted in two categories of the Cancer Research Horizons Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards🎊
Recognising her commitment to translational research, she's nominated for:
🏆Entrepreneurial Group Leader of the Year
🏆Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Our third & final new Career Development Fellow is @GianlucaMuccio1 from @CRUK_CI who will be investigating the role that cells called fibroblasts play in #PancreaticCancer . 🔬
He hopes this will lead to the development of new treatments for advanced disease.
👋 Hello March! Hello #CamFest 2024!
We'll be at the Big Cambridge Biomedical Campus Day at Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology on Sat 16 March
and at Cambridge Festival Family Weekend on 23-24 March!
Find us for children's science activities, introducing you to what we do!
More info 👉shorturl.at/lKNO7