Congratulations to Dr Xiao Wan from Professor Eric O\u2019Neill\u2019s group for her success in obtaining an NC3Rs Training Fellowship for \u2018Developing human organotypic perfused bioreactors for physiologically reproducible therapeutic compound screening of a tumour microenvironment\u2019.
Congratulations to Dr Bart Cornelissen of the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology who has secured a \u00a3200k grant from UK medical research charity, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (PCRF).
Dr James Larkin, a postdoctoral researcher from Nicola Sibson\u2019s lab in the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Biology, has won a silver medal in 2018 STEM for Britain, a Parliamentary poster competition that gives researchers the chance to present their work to policymakers and politicians and discuss their work with local MPs.
The 5-year programme award will support research on the DNA repair mechanisms that protect cancer cells from therapy, informing the development of future therapies.
Many congratulations to Robert Watson, a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in the laboratory of Benjamin Fairfax in the Department of Oncology. Robert was successful in his application for a CRUK pre-doctoral research bursary.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Francesca Buffa who has been awarded a five-year \u20ac2M grant by the European Research Council (ERC) to develop computer simulations of cancer cell behaviour, to help us personalise cancer treatment and prevent drug resistance.
Congratulations to Professor Eric O'Neill who has been awarded honorary membership of the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR). The award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to radiation biology, in particular teaching and training.
This month the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) hosted the annual Regional Breast Cancer Academic Day, an event that brings together breast cancer teams from across the Thames Valley region. This year\u2019s symposium involved the participation of over 70 attendees, including nurses, clinical trial managers, researchers and doctors.
Professor Nicola Sibson of the Department of Oncology has been awarded a grant worth almost \u00a3200,000 by research charity Breast Cancer Now to fund cutting-edge research to uncover novel treatment combinations to control breast cancer that has spread to the brain.
The 5th Annual Oncology Student Symposium held at St Anne\u2019s College on Thursday, 13 July was a great success with a full day of talks in the Mary Ogilvie lecture theatre and a poster session in the marquee within the beautiful surroundings of the St Anne\u2019s Quad.
On Monday, 24 July the Department of Oncology will welcome 27 students from across the UK who will gather in Oxford to find out what it would be like to study here.
Today a new drug will become available for patients with bowel cancer as part of a national clinical trial; based on a scientific discovery made only two years ago at the University of Oxford.
Members of the Department of Oncology will be out and about in the community over the next week or so explaining how your tax money is used to fund ground breaking medical research in Oxford.
Congratulations to everyone in Old Road Campus Research Building\u2019s Green Impact team, which includes various members of staff from Departments within the Building including Oncology, and also to everyone in the building who has helped achieve a silver award for environmental sustainability projects.
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