NEWS: First trial of vaccine to prevent Lynch syndrome-associated cancers approved to start in Oxford Read about the Phase 1 of the INTERCEPT-Lynch trial 👇

First trial of vaccine to prevent Lynch syndrome-associated cancers approved to start in Oxford

Phase 1 of the INTERCEPT-Lynch trial, which is funded by Moderna, sponsored by the University of Oxford and run by the University's Oncology Clinical Trials Office with support from Oxford Cancer, has received authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and is expected to begin recruiting participants this summer.

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A change of scene for today! @oxfordcancer.bsky.social has taken over the cinema for a day to talk about preventing cancer with vaccines with our brilliant public and patient contributors. Looking forward to an interesting day of discussions! #PPIE

Our second annual Oxford Liver Cancer Centre of Excellence Symposium will focus on advancing scientific collaboration and ultimately improving outcomes for liver cancer! 🥼When: 14th May 🧪Where: Richard Doll Building @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oncology.ox.ac.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-liv...

Oxford Liver Cancer Centre of Excellence 2026 Symposium

An event focused on advancing scientific collaboration and improving outcomes for liver cancer.

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The NHS cancer strategy depends on diagnosing more cancers earlier, but that’s hardest when patients present with non-specific symptoms. The new ARMADILO study will test how well innovative multi-cancer tests can support GP decision-making in real-world primary care. @oxfordcancer.bsky.social

New Oxford-led study set to evaluate multi-cancer blood tests in GP practices for earlier diagnosis

In an advance for early cancer detection, a new Oxford-led study has received £3.6 million from the National Institute of Health and Care Research to evaluate breakthrough multi-cancer tests in NHS ge...

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It’s @oxfordcancer.bsky.social symposium day 🎉 Looking forward to the talks today, especially the ‘New to Oxford’ session to learn about what our recently arrived colleagues are researching #OxSymp26

FUNDING: Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention funding scheme To develop proof-of-concept projects, technologies, platforms and analytical data models to a stage at which more long-term external funding can be sought. Closes Fri 27 Feb. www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/...

Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community

UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

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Apply now! 📢 The Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Travel Awards are now accepting applications! 🥼Open to @ox.ac.uk early career researchers 💷Funds to attend major cancer prevention and early detection conferences Deadline: Fri 27 Feb ⬇️ www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/about/oxcode...

The Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention (OxCODE) Funding Scheme is open! 🔎Pump-priming cancer early detection and prevention research 🧪Open to @ox.ac.uk researchers 💷£20K 1-year awards 📆Deadline: Fri 27 Feb More on the OxCODE website 👇 www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/about/oxcode....

Excited to be at the OxCODE symposium, especially as I’m not organising it this year so I can relax and enjoy the science! Delighted that we have Ros Eeles as our 1st keynote speaker on the very topical subject of opportunities for prostate cancer screening #OxCODE25 @oxfordcancer.bsky.social

Oxford Professor Sarah Blagden, @oncology.ox.ac.uk appears in the first episode of Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures on @Channel4 tonight! 📺 Watch at 9pm, Thurs 20 Nov, or stream on Channel 4. Brought to you by @CR_UK. #CancerDetectives #CancerPrevention www.channel4.com/programmes/c...

Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures

Three trailblazing scientists take on cancer, changing peoples’ lives, right now

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What if we could stop #Cancer before it even starts? Prof. Sarah Blagden @oncology.ox.ac.uk & PPI contributor Anna Fry discuss novel cancer prevention research on the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social podcast. 🎧 www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/cou... @sarahblagden.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

🚨Government ministers are visiting Oxford this morning to announce £120m funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers. New stations will be built at Cowley and Littlemore, with a journey time of just 7 minutes into Oxford. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...

Full steam ahead for Cowley Branch Line

Direct trains will run from Cowley and Littlemore to Oxford and London Marylebone, as the Government today announces £120m of funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers. The funds will pa...

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New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

t.co/wF4ql4c3V8 We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social

Join our healthy volunteer blood donation campaign! We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank. By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford! Find out more ⬇️ www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽 📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci... 🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM 🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19

Thrilled that our paper is in print @science.org!! *Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA* Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight

By sucking up DNA, clot-producing platelets could help diagnose cancer

The cells could be a new source of tumor DNA for liquid biopsies

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Lauren Murphy@l-cmurphy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽 📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci... 🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM 🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19

Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway! The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms. Find out more on our website. 👇 www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...

Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway

The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.

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Great to see our work on preventive cancer vaccines, including LungVax, featured in this issue! @oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social

The Economist@economist.com · last yr.

Progress in the fight against the disease has been slow, steady—and remarkable. Long may that continue

The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc! Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. LMS...

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Congrats to our 2025 OxCODE travel awardees, who are attending this week's Cancer Prevention Research Conference! @cancerresearchuk.org Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️ www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...

OxCODE travel awards 2025

Congratulations to Zinaida Dedeic, Joshua Fieggen, Ella Mi, Shizhe Xu, Yuhan Zheng and Noushin Zibandeh who have been awarded OxCODE funds to attend this year’s major cancer prevention and early detec...

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I’m here at the 2025 Cancer Prevention conference in London! 🎉 I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93! @oxfordcancer.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Looking for support between a doctorate and applying for post-doctoral funding? Our post-doctoral awards are now open for applications! oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/training-hub... Closing date: 2 July. @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Post-Doctoral Awards | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

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We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming event, 'Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine', taking place @stannescollege.bsky.social on Monday 30th June at 4pm. Further details and registration can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/thinki...

A new travel planning website for journeys in and around Oxford has launched. Oxford Travel Options www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk is created by Low Carbon Oxford North and the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership (ZCOP). It shows transport options and tools for transport beyond the private car.

Oxford Travel Options | Smarter Ways to Travel Around Oxford

Discover alternative travel solutions for Oxford and the surrounding area, from bus routes and bike paths to lift shares and route planning.

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Another postdoc position working ongside the wider #MuSpAn community is currently open - this time working with Prof Jens Rittscher and others at the intersection of colorectal cancer, machine learning, spatial statistics, and mathematical modelling. Apply before 30th June! tinyurl.com/3ht3rh3h

It's our Health Research Showcase in two days! Come along to the Westgate in Oxford to find out about the latest in healthcare research oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/he... @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxahpartners.bsky.social @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social

Join us next week to hear Sarah Blagden and team discuss the possibilities and potential barriers associated with recruiting to vaccine trials and eventually rolling out new preventive cancer vaccines! Full details below ⬇️

Centre for Personalised Medicine@cpmoxford.bsky.social · last yr.

We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer... Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.

We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer... Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.