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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Department of Oncology is pleased to announce that Professor Amato J Giaccia has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology (OIRO).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers in the Department of Oncology have secured funding to characterise an insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signature for early detection and risk reduction of cancer.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nScientists from the Department of Oncology have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent cells that are tricked into shielding the cancer from the immune system.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Department of Oncology has been awarded a Bronze Employer Award from Science Oxford for our contributions to STEM week in 2018.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nGreg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will confirm today (Tuesday 6 November) that UK Research and Innovation will invest \u00a310million in the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI), to be led from Oxford University as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDepartment of Oncology researchers Dr Andrew Blackford and Dr Simon Lord have been appointed as Fellows of Oriel College.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Serena Lucotti, who has been awarded 'Italy Made Me' prize for her DPhil project.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn July, the Department of Oncology was involved in the UNIQ Summer school, which is run as part of the University of Oxford\u2019s programme to increase diversity amongst students and is a committed supporter of making Oxford accessible to everyone.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 6th Annual Oncology Student Symposium was held at St Anne\u2019s College, for the second time, on Monday, 9 July.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor Peter McHugh of the Department of Oncology has been awarded a 4 year grant from the Medical Research Council.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 5-year programme award will support research on the DNA repair mechanisms that protect cancer cells from therapy, informing the development of future therapies.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMany 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
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