Congratulations to our PhD students Ahmed Alsayadi, Phoebe Snow and Emma Barlow on receiving FMS Postgraduate Outstanding Contribution Awards, recognising their outstanding contributions to the NUCancer PGR community. A brilliant achievement and very well deserved 👏

Members of the REACH team recently took part in Pint of Science Newcastle, sharing how patient voices can help shape cancer research. The session explored PPIE, qualitative research and creative ways to improve cancer communication. #PintOfScience #CancerResearch #PPIE

🏆 Ryan Lab success at London Calling 2026! Huge congratulations to Eleanor and Steven, whose telomere-to-telomere chromosome assembly work using nanopore sequencing was recognised with a Spotlight talk win and a Highly Commended Poster award. #NanoporeSequencing #Genomics #ChildhoodCancerResearch

Ever wondered how your support helps shape the future of childhood cancer research? 🧡 Join our Research Open Evening at Newcastle University for talks, interactive activities, lab tours and a Young Scientist Zone. 📅 Wed 24 June, 4–8pm 📍 Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre 🔗 Link in comments

See how your support makes a difference! 🧡 Join us at our Research Open Evening on 24 June and explore the progress and discoveries that are leading the way in childhood cancer research @nucancer.bsky.social Find out more & sign up here: https://loom.ly/_OCASG8

Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Hill, Dr Melanie Beckett, Dr Louisa Taylor, Dr Saimir Luli & Prof Steve Clifford on a £310k @littleprincesses.bsky.social Project Grant to advance medulloblastoma research combining MYC-targeting therapies with radiotherapy. #Medulloblastoma #ChildhoodCancer

Congratulations to Dr Luke Gaughan, who has received a £212,089 award from @worldwidecancer.bsky.social to investigate whether targeting DNA repair can improve radiotherapy response in prostate cancer. #ProstateCancer #CancerResearch #Radiotherapy

Advancing childhood lymphoma research 🧬🏆 Congratulations to Helen Griffin, whose study on exome sequencing in children with non-Hodgkin lymphoma won the Best Experimental & Translational Science Abstract award at #CCLG2026 in Manchester. Well done, Helen! 👏

Huge congratulations to Richard Gallon, awarded Best Oral Presentation at the InSiGHT Conference in Singapore earlier this March. A brilliant and well-deserved achievement. Well done Richard! 👏🏆 #Congratulations #ResearchExcellence #CancerResearch

Fantastic to see our institute on the programme at the Precision Medicine, Genomics and Informatics Theme Symposium. Huge credit to our speakers driving meaningful progress in cancer research 👏🔬

Last week was an exciting one for the LEGEND Group! We attended NUBI Live, where Lisa and Phoebe gave talks, and Ahmed and Leti presented posters. Nick also presented in the @nucancer.bsky.social PMGI Symposium. Excellent science with plenty of engaging discussions!

I am deeply honoured to have received two awards from Newcastle University! My sincere thanks to the committee for organising these awards, which recognise the work of technicians. I would also like to thank everyone who nominated me, as well as my team and my PI Lisa Russell for their support.

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Two awards, one incredible achievement! Huge congratulations to NU Cancer’s Camille Drai on winning Outstanding Technician of the Year and Early Career Achievement at the Newcastle University Technician Awards 👏 #NUCancer #NewcastleUniversity #TechnicianAwards

Two awards, one incredible achievement! Huge congratulations to NU Cancer’s Camille Drai on winning Outstanding Technician of the Year and Early Career Achievement at the Newcastle University Technician Awards 👏 #NUCancer #NewcastleUniversity #TechnicianAwards

🔬 Thank you to Professor Jonathan Higgins for an excellent #NUCancer Seminar on “Dicentric Chromosomes, Genome Instability, and Cancer.” Great discussions and insights into chromosome rearrangements and cancer biology. #CancerResearch #NewcastleUniversity #OncologyResearch

🎉 Great results for the Newcastle Cancer Centre Pharmacology Group at the BPS annual meeting. 🏆 Emma Barlow won Best Clinical Pharmacology Poster and Best Overall Poster 🎤 Daniel Whitaker won Best Oral Presentation (Pharmacogenomics & Toxicology) Huge congrats to both! 👏🔬

Cancer Research is changing fast, increasingly driven by research innovations. Hear from our Director of @nucancer.bsky.social, Prof Steve Clifford about how the Centre is advancing cancer research and tackling today's challenges for better diagnosis and treatment tomorrow. tinyurl.com/wzu6e7uf

🎉 Congrats to Dr Abdullah Malik on securing £21,549 from BASO_ACS & Rosetrees Trust to research radiotherapy in liver cancer, focusing on the immune microenvironment. The only trainee invited to present at BASO Congress, outstanding work! 👏 #CancerResearch #LiverCancer

Funded PhD opportunity for anyone interested in using cutting-edge chemistry to look at glycan profiles in prostate cancer samples 🙌🏻 The successful student will be based at the University of York with Prof Alison Parkin with the opportunity to carry out a placement at the @nucancer.bsky.social

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Rapid and sensitive diagnostic ‘fingerprinting’ of prostate cancer O-glycans using Fourier-Transform alternative current voltammetry (FTACV) at University of Y...

PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Rapid and sensitive diagnostic ‘fingerprinting’ of prostate cancer O-glycans using Fourier-Transform alternative current voltammetry ...

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Today’s seminar: the “diabolical duo” in liver cancer; neutrophils + platelets!🩸 Targeting their crosstalk could re-wire the tumour microenvironment + make HCC more responsive to immunotherapy. 🗣️Prof. Derek Mann / Erik Ramon Gil (PhD student) #LiverCancer #Immunotherapy #Cancer #Research

Fantastic news 🎉 Dr Frederik van Delft & Dr Alistair Poll have been awarded a £353k Children with Cancer UK Research Project Grant (2026–29) to tackle drug-resistant T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in children. (1/2) #ChildhoodCancer #TALL #CancerResearch

The Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre at the Herschel Building has earned the Silver LEAF Award for sustainable lab practices! 🥈 Reducing waste, saving energy & going greener every day. 💚 #Sustainability #GreenLabs #LEAFAward #ScienceForGood #NetZero #EcoInnovation

🎓 Great turnout for the first #NUCancer seminar! Thank you to everyone who joined Prof Christina Halsey for an inspiring talk on improving CNS leukaemia treatmentand reducing neurotoxicity in children. 🧠 Smarter, safer therapies ahead. #CancerResearch #Leukaemia #Oncology

🏆 Huge congratulations to Professor Sir John Burn and his team! They’ve won the CRUK Research Horizons “Translational Project of the Year” Award, recognising their efforts toward turning cancer research into real-world patient impact. 💙 #CancerResearch #InnovationInOncology

💙 1 in 8 UK men will develop prostate cancer — but the risk is twice as high for men of African ancestry. Yet, research in this group is still limited. That needs to change. #MensHealth #ProstateCancer

Last week on #WorldCancerResearchDay the whole lab and other colleagues from @nucancer.bsky.social turned into bakers to help fundraising for @cancerresearchuk.org, a charity close to us for their commitment to fund groundbreaking projects in cancer research. Lovely seeing the public engaged!

Research is not a solo effort. ​ It takes teamwork. It takes belief. It takes collaboration. We know what it takes to beat blood cancer and so does @dr-ahlamq.bsky.social whose work is funded by @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social grant co-led by Lisa & @letimarchetti.bsky.social​ #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth​

🚨New work from the #NUCancer Paediatric Brain Tumour Group shows not all MYC/MYCN-amplified medulloblastomas are the same. 🔹 Some patients face near-incurable disease & need new therapies 🔹 Others can survive long-term with current treatment #ChildhoodCancer #Medulloblastoma

🧬 Engineered nanobodies binding and stabilizing cancer-mutant p16INK4a—without blocking its CDK6 interaction or cell-cycle arrest function, in press at Structure from Endicott @nucancer.bsky.social and @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social groups! 📖 www.cell.com/structure/fu...

Nanobodies restore stability to cancer-associated mutants of tumor suppressor protein p16INK4a

Burbidge et al. characterize nanobodies against the tumor suppressor and CDK4/6 inhibitor p16INK4a in vitro and in cells. They show the nanobodies restore mutant p16INK4a stability. Nanobody binding t...

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Celebrating Excellence: NU Cancer Conference 2025 Prize winner spotlight 🏆 Congrats to Dr. Eleanor Hackney on winning a poster award! Eleanor shined a light on her research around the utility of multiple FIT testing in symptomatic colorectal cancer patients. 🧪 #CancerResearch

🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof. Linda Sharp, Dr. Laura Woods & Dr. Christina Dobson on receiving a £40,000 grant from @HDR_UK North for their 9-month project: “Epidemiology of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer in England” 👏 #ColorectalCancer #EarlyDiagnosis #PublicHealth