Are you ready Cambridge!? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Scientists from our Carroll Lab are urging people to back life-saving research and sign up for Race for Life.

Dr Shalini.Rao and her colleagues are among the Institute staff who'll be lacing up their trainers on 30 June!

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Next week is Dying Matters Week, and we are hosting a free Death Cafe for people to drink tea, discuss death, and ask questions without feeling uncomfortable or judged. Please register your place now.

In partnership with CRUK Cambridge Institute and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS.

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The Creixell Group has received a HFSP Grant for a project titled 'Resurrecting the Multiple Origins of Tyrosine Kinsase Activity & Phosphotyrosine Recognition'.

PhD student Luis Bermúdez-Guzmán, Dr Creixell & others will collaborate with Prof Brian Metzger's lab at Purdue Biological Sciences🎉

Congratulations to Shankar and David who have been inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame for the role they played in inventing Next Generation sequencing.

👏 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:

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Have you applied yet?🤔

Follow this link to find out more and get your application started!

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🎉 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

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🎙️ 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.

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🚨 Applications for our Undergraduate Summer Research Programme are open now! 🚨

Gain immersive, hands-on research experience by working on your own research project in one of our world-leading research groups.

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Apply by 30 April.

👏👏 Dr Tim Halim has been awarded £3.3 million through the Wellcome Discovery scheme to explore how immune cells called ‘type-2 lymphocytes’ influence the behaviour of fibroblasts, particularly during health and disease states.

Learn more ⤵️
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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 🧬

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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.

See you on Saturday! 🔬