Exciting to see SCRC Creative Community Engagement project led by Deborah Humphrey, and Karina Patfield, highlighted on BBC news. "Words from the Waiting Room offers cancer patients, survivors, and supporters a safe environment to express themselves" sussexcancer.org/news/bbc-news-…

Today is the final session of ‘Words from the Waiting Room’ – a powerful creative project supporting those affected by cancer. Led by Brighton students, the project has helped participants express their journeys through writing & collage. Read on BBC News (UK) bit.ly/4cdXyj1

A huge congratulations to Dr Benjamin Towler who has recently been awarded a 3 year research grant from the The Leverhulme Trust to investigate molecular mechanisms regulating stress-induced RNA dynamics. Sussex Life Sciences University of Sussex Sussex RNA Network Sussex Cancer Research Centre profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p247980-benjam…

Our creative writing workshops for those affected by cancer are now complete – and a real success. With a waiting list already in place and plans for an anthology, the impact continues. Read more 👉 [[Link]] #CancerSupport #CreativeHealth #SussexCancerFund bit.ly/4m83aAa

Presenting our latest work out now in Oncogene Journal driven by Megan Wagstaff in Sussex Life Sciences University of Sussex Sussex Cancer Research Centre Sussex Blood Cancer Research Wnt UK. We show the oncogene β-catenin interacts with a Wnt mRNA network in myeloid leukaemia cells Quick tour🧵👇 1/ nature.com/articles/s4138…

Excited to announce that thanks to securing a UKRI FLF follow-on award (mitchell.science/talk/566k-foll…) ✨We are hiring✨ 3-year systems biology (wet/dry) postdoc, to pioneer new approaches to personalised medicine. Learn more + apply (before 29 June) mitchell.science/talk/recruitin… Plz RT

Multiple positions currently open for applications but with imminent dealines: - PhD studentship with Sally Wheelwright on cancer-related fatigue. - PhD studentship with Chris Pepper on multiple myeloma. - Postdoc with Simon Mitchell on cancer systems biology sussexcancer.org/jobs

Join me and Dr David Palmer, Haematology Clinician at University Hospitals Sussex BSMS, for a 3.5 year Sussex Life Sciences funded PhD (UK home fees only) studying RUNX1 mutations in myeloid leukaemia here at University of Sussex Sussex Blood Cancer Research Sussex Cancer Research Centre Details and apply👇👇 sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…

Artist’s blood cancer treatment inspires powerful new exhibition University of Brighton, BSMS brighton.ac.uk/news/2025/arti…

Great to see a packed Audrey Emerton lecture hall for the 2025 Sussex Cancer Research Centre symposium today. Fantastic network bringing together patients, scientists, clinicians, nurses, charities, advocates and fundraisers from University of Sussex BSMS University of Brighton University Hospitals Sussex Sussex Cancer Fund

Today we’re marking one year of the Sussex Cancer Research Centre! If you’re not in the audience for our anniversary symposium today UHSussexResearch. Then check out our progress: sussexcancer.org/oneyear BSMS University of Brighton University of Sussex Sussex Life Sciences

Huge congrats to our John Goldman Fellow, Dr Simon Mitchell Simon Mitchell, on the one-year anniversary of the Sussex Cancer Research Centre (SCRC) - an ambitious, collaborative hub supporting new PhD students, pioneering research projects and driving interdisciplinary collaborations. 🎉

The Sussex Cancer Fund are incredible partners in supporting the SCRC. Please support them so we can support more of your research.

Following on from our recent paper showing novel post-transcriptional roles for B-catenin in leukaemia cells, a very well done to Okan Sevim and Hyun Park for writing a superb review in Oncogene Journal summarising our current understanding of this field. nature.com/articles/s4138…

We are excited to announce a new round of funding available thanks to the Sussex Cancer Fund. The 2025 SCF:SCRC Pump-Priming Awards scheme is now open! Dealine: 4th August 2025 sussexcancer.org/news/new-scfsc… University of Brighton Sussex Life Sciences BSMS UHSussexResearch East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

We’ve contributed £25,679 to vital research on how stress affects endometrial cancer. Led by Prof Melanie Flint University of Brighton, the study could lead to better treatments & improved outcomes. Proud to support Sussex-led science. 🔗 bit.ly/45MoC83

🧠💪 Could stress make cancer harder to treat? New research led by the University of Brighton’s Professor Melanie Flint & backed by Sussex Cancer Fund, is investigating the link between stress & endometrial cancer – aiming to improve patient outcomes. 👉 brighton.ac.uk/news/2025/link…

Nearing the end/completed your PhD? Interested in leukaemia research? Want to join a new and exciting PI as they establish their group at Sussex Life Sciences Then this 3y post doc post with newly minted MRC CDA Fellow & Blood Cancer UK Research funded Dr Jasmeen Oberoi could be for you 👇

Join us for the next Science Café hosted by Sussex Cancer Fund in partnership with the Macmillan Horizon Centre. To find out more information and to secure your space follow this link: sussexcancer.org/events We are looking forward to seeing you there 😊

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