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.
Five members of Professor Len Seymour's laboratory (Arthur Dyer, Sally Frost, Sophie Owen, Tzveta Pokrovska and Ellie Scott) are limbering up to walk 100km non-stop in 24 hours over the August bank holiday to raise money for Cancer Research UK, Martlet's Hospice and the Red Cross.
Joshua Bugajski (Stroke 4), an MSc Oncology student in Katherine Vallis\u2019 group was part of Oxford\u2019s winning team on Sunday, 2 April when they cruised to victory in the 2017 Cancer Research UK boat race against Cambridge.
The development of new treatments for pancreatic cancer is set to be transformed by a network of pancreatic clinical trials, aiming to find the right trial for the right patient, after a \u00a310 million investment from Cancer Research UK announced today.
In late February the Department of Physics hosted a Greenlight for Girls event to encourage young women to think about studying physics and to challenge the perception that physics is for boys.
Using funding from CRUK and Psioxus Therapeutics, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford led by Professor Len Seymour, have recently published a paper in Molecular Therapy Oncolytics.
If you pay tax in the UK then you help fund our research. Inspired by this the Department of Oncology set out on a road trip across the Thames Valley area in support of the Medical Research Council\u2019s (MRC) \u201cFestival of Medical Research\u201d. MRC is a leading funder of research into human disease and obtain their funds from the Treasury.
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