Yesterday Jamie Blundell gave a talk to sixth form students at Chesterton Sixth Form on How cancers are born: combining genomics, evolution and maths to understand the origins of blood cancers. The feedback from the students was tremendous! #Inspiringthenextgeneration

📢Tomorrow!📢 Join us for our next #ECISeminar. Professor Sadaf Farooqi on "Mechanisms driving obesity and its complications". Tuesday 25th June, 12:30-14:00 Register at👉…eminar-sadaf-farooqi.eventbrite.co.uk

Many thanks to Prof Sadaf Farooqi Farooqi Lab for giving such an interesting talk today on the 'Mechanisms driving obesity and its complications,' showing how obesity is linked to cancer. A lively q&a followed, chaired by Matt Hoare

Well done to our 'Early Cancer Detectives' team who took part in the Cambridge Race for Life on Sunday. It was a great event to be a part of, raising funds for groundbreaking research. There's still time to donate at: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/early-can…

Registrations for the Cambridge Symposium on Oesophageal Cancer are live! Hear from experts and discuss the latest in research and treatment. 📅 Thurs 7 November | Li Ka Shing Centre Cambridge Biomedical Campus  Sign up - zurl.co/TYrf CRUK Cambridge Centre: Thoracic Cancer Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge #CamSOC2024

Dr Matt Hoare is looking for a Postdoc to join his research group to invstigate epigenetics in chronic liver disease and #HCC development. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47117/ 📅 Closing Date: 26th July

Huge congratulations to Elspeth on her fascinating paper in J. of Medical Ethics explaining some of the findings of the 4 years of her PhD research focused on patients’ experience of the capsule sponge test from social scientific perspectives 👉tinyurl.com/5ypp2yyt #ACEDearlydetection

🥳Huge congratulations to Andreas Hadjinicolaou, Rebecca Fitzgerald Lab who has been named BSG Young Gastroenterologist of the Year. This prestigious award is given to the most talented trainee clinical scientist nationally. 👇earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/news/andreas-h…

In the Crispin Lab, we use AI to tackle ovarian and kidney cancer. Mireia Crispin and I spoke to @cambridge_uni about our efforts in a short article. "Scientists are developing AI tools.. speeding up diagnosis, personalising therapy, and reducing costs. " cam.ac.uk/stories/cambri…

🏆👏Congratulations to Rebecca Fitzgerald Lab PhD student and Gates Cambridge scholar, Aisha Yusuf, who was awarded the 'best oral presentation' at the Asia-Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress in July 2024.

Today Rebecca Wray and bill presented posters on their work on kidney cancer at the CRUK Cambridge Centre Postgraduate Symposium 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 Well done to Rebecca Wray for co-organising the event!

Monumental time for #HPV self-sampling for #cervical screening as the YouScreen trial is published in eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science! Self-sampling could encourage ~400k more 👭a year to be screened⚠️ 📘bit.ly/4cPho3U 📰bit.ly/3W2S4Qs Peter Sasieni Anita Lim Jo Waller

Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge researchers feature in Cambridge University cancer focus campaign #ChangingTheStoryOfCancer Inside the institute looking at early cancer youtu.be/G0ZsrAYJg_Q?si… via YouTube

Find out how our groundbreaking cancer research is #ChangingTheStoryOfCancer by detecting cancer earlier, developing precision treatments and involving patients at every stage. Cambridge University Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK zurl.co/4Wyq

Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Walker Smith Rebecca Fitzgerald Lab. One of the inaugural cohort of Academy of Medical Sciences Cross-Sector Experience awardees. Becky will be partnering with Cyted 👉shorturl.at/egYEB

Muñoz-Espín Lab at Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge is hiring a highly motivated Postdoc to study Senescence and Immunity in Lung Cancer: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46805/ Apply by 10th September 2024. Come join us!! 😃

🥳Huge congratulations to Serena Nik-Zainal, winner of the 2024 ESMO - Eur. Oncology award for translational research. Very well deserved. 👏👏 👉shorturl.at/6vAF3

Congratulations Elspeth on the publication of this fascinating piece of research into attitudes among people who have been identified as being 'at risk' of becoming ill in the future. #ACEDearlydetection earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/news/elspeth-d…

Read how Harveer Dev and Dr Simon Pacey are collaborating on #ChangingTheStoryOfCancer for #prostatecancer 👇

📢Reminder: Submit your abstracts for the #ECISymposium2024 by Sunday 25th August to be considered for a short talk and/or poster at our Symposium on 1st October. 👇 Abstract submission guidelines and Symposium information earlycancer.cam.ac.uk/events/early-c…