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Emma Parsons@emmacparsons.bsky.social · last yr.

@labedwards.bsky.social are back at #Explorathon25 this year with our new Mighty Microbes activity 🦠🔬 Come and learn about microbes in your gut! Save the date 20th and 21st September at @uofgarc.bsky.social Thanks to @glasgowscience.bsky.social for helping us design our activity

Great talk from @drpipdunne.bsky.social at BACR 65th Anniversary meeting

The @thebacr.bsky.social 65th Anniversary was such a wonderful time! 🤩 In the breathtaking Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh was an incredible speakers line up! And of course we shared our latest work!

Amna presenting on EMT

INCISE poster and talk

Poster presentations on inflammatory signalling from Edwards lab

GTRF and SPARC

Had a great time at BACR 65th Anniversary meeting

Last week, the 1st Annual IMPACT conference took place on the shores of Loch Lomond 📍🤩

Last week, the 1st Annual IMPACT conference took place on the shores of Loch Lomond 📍🤩

Emma had a great time presenting at the #PublicInvolvement event that was held by @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk last week! Its amazing how medical research is evolving to include patients and the public in the conversation! 🤩

Our latest paper, published today in FEBS Letters is a chemical biology study on development of drugs selectively targeting HDAC6 with demonstration of efficacy in a human model of liver fibrosis. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FEBS Press

Chronic liver injury can lead to severe conditions such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Unfortunately, there are no effective treatments to halt or reverse liver fibrosis, which makes new therapeutic ....

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Congratulations Kathy and Jo

Joanna Birch@jbirchj.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introducing Dr. Kathy McLay 🎉🎉🎉 Couldn’t be prouder @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

We are delighted and proud that our final year PhD student Sara was named Runner-up for best final year oral presentation at the Medical Research Scotland Researcher Development Event 🎉 🥳 @joedwardswwcrc.bsky.social @sarasuperior.bsky.social @incise-research.bsky.social

Massive congratulations to Dr Emma Parsons on being awarded best scientific PhD student in the School of Cancer Sciences. 🎉🎉🎉 Was a pleasure to be her supervisor, so well deserved as recognised her not only her thesis but also her contribution to teaching and PPI work

Emma Parsons@emmacparsons.bsky.social · 2y ago

Shocked and so so happy to have won the best PGR prize for @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social - thank you to the panel for choosing me and to everyone who supported me through my PhD! ⭐

Remember @emmacparsons.bsky.social passing her viva? 🥹 Today we are SO PROUD to announce she has 🎊 WON 🎊 the 2023/2024 School of Cancer Sciences Accomplishment in Academic Post-Graduate Research Training Prize! This is awarded to the best science PhD student. 🥳🏅 @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social

We are incredibly proud to announce that the School of Cancer Sciences has been awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award ⭐

Today would not have been possible without the Theme Lead from Glasgow, @joedwardswwcrc.bsky.social and our wonderful organizers Dr. Gerard Lymch and Ms Mayuri Hendricks! 😊😊 #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

Richard Wilson of @uofglasgow.bsky.social delivered closing remarks summarizing the wonderful science presented today! 🤓 #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025 @cruk-si.bsky.social

🎵 We are walking on sunshine ☀️ Today’s last talk by Peter Vaughan-Shaw from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and @nhslothian.bsky.social was on whether Vitamin D’s ability to reduce colorectal cancer risk is a cold fact or a wishful fantasy! #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

Why are cancer patients getting younger❓ 🤔 Malcolm Dunlop from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and @nhslothian.bsky.social’s talk was about all the fascinating new genes linked to early onset colorectal cancer! #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

The third and final theme of the day, Advances in the Clinic, skillfully chaired by Susan Farrington of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has begun. #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social

3...2...1... We have lift off! ⏱️🚀 Alistair McLaren from @uofglasgow.bsky.social just finished his fascinating talk on phenotypic characterization of neutrophils through space and time! #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

Change = only constant. Ask the immune system post-radiotherapy!🦉 Great talk from Lily Hillson from @uofglasgow.bsky.social on dynamic rectal tissue and immune response to radiotherapy. Lily’s PhD Viva is coming up, wish her luck! 🤞 #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

The Problem with Plasticity...💁‍♂️ Kevin Myant of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social kicked off the second theme of the day with an excellent talk on colonic lineage fidelity loss and its effects on plasticity & metastasis #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

2️⃣Back from break and ready for Theme 2: Improving Management of CRC Metastases & Advanced Disease, with Prof. Campbell Roxburgh from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and NHSGGC chairing! #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

🚨Subgroups left us speechless 🤯 Natalie Fisher of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social gave a fascinating talk on distinct transcriptional and phenotypic states within colorectal polyps. #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025 @cruk-si.bsky.social

Inspecting the immune infiltrate 🕵️🔍 @mcsorleystephen.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social & NHSGGC spoke about the immune infiltrate in colonic adenomas & their relation to future polyp risk as part of @incise-research.bsky.social #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

Solving hypomethylation puzzles 🍭🧬😌 @sproullab.bsky.social of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social delivered an interesting talk on the role of epigenetic dysfunction in colorectal carcinogenesis. #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025

1️⃣Let's kick off the first theme of the day: Improving CRC Prevention and Early Detection, chaired by @drpipdunne.bsky.social of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @cruk-si.bsky.social #BowelCancer #ColorectalCancer #Research #CRCThemeDay2025