Today at the OCION Symposium: Jie Yang @oxcio.bsky.social presents: "Aspirin enhances T cell immunity to cancer metastasis” & Om H. Gandhi, also @oxcio.bsky.social, covers: “Peptide and enzyme-level dissection of a TAP–cytosolic aminopeptidase axis of tumour immune escape”

We had a great time at the first CIO Fun Run last month! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏾‍♂️‍➡️ Whether you did the 5K or 10K Run or the 5K walk, everybody did a great job resisting the heat! 🌡️ (Thanks Emery, Bas & Sashini with yummy refreshments afterwards) We are happy to announce that we raised £1,428 for @cruk-mi.bsky.social

This Friday, we are carrying out the first CIO Fun Run™️, a non-competitive 5-10K for everyone in our department, with a social drinks and snacks get-together afterwards. We are raising money for #CancerResearchUK @cruk-mi.bsky.social 🏃‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♂️ Donate here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cio-run...

CIO Run Fun 2026 CRUK Fundraiser

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This Friday, we are carrying out the first CIO Fun Run™️, a non-competitive 5-10K for everyone in our department, with a social drinks and snacks get-together afterwards. We are raising money for #CancerResearchUK @cruk-mi.bsky.social 🏃‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♂️ Donate here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cio-run...

CIO Run Fun 2026 CRUK Fundraiser

Thanks for taking the time to visit my fundraising page. Cancer is happening right now, which is why I’m fundraising right now for Cancer Research UK. There’s no time to lose! Donate to my page today...

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org

Calling all members of the Oxford Cancer Network! The next @oxcio.bsky.social seminar will take place on Monday, January 12th, at 2 pm. Dr Amit Sud will present 'Spatial colocalisation of neoantigen-expressing tumour cells and cognate T-cells in cancer'.

This project has been a fantastic collaboration between members of the @oxcio.bsky.social and @oncology.ox.ac.uk (Oxford), AstraZeneca and others, and a huge dose of perseverance and resilience from @mtjackson101.bsky.social ! Huge thanks also to our funders. 10/10

Parkes lab pre-print alert! ‘TMEM33 deletion potentiates anti-tumor CD8⁺ T cell immunity.’ Led by mtjackson101.bsky.social. Full bluetutorial follows! 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our #CIO DPhil student Lisha Jeena is about to give her pre-viva talk on the effects of HIV-associated inflammation on musculoskeletal health🦴. Come support Lisha in the NDMRB seminar room! Best of luck, Lisha 🍀 you’ve got this! 💪🎓

🎓 Best of luck to Max Quastel, who’s defending his DPhil thesis today! He’ll be giving a pre-viva talk open to everyone, come along and cheer him on. Break a leg, Max! ✨ #CIODphil

Our #CIO DPhil student Lisha Jeena is about to give her pre-viva talk on the effects of HIV-associated inflammation on musculoskeletal health🦴. Come support Lisha in the NDMRB seminar room! Best of luck, Lisha 🍀 you’ve got this! 💪🎓

There was something different about patients receiving treatment for cancer in the pandemic. Less treatment was given, so it may have been restricted the fittest/ those who would most benefit. This may explain the Covid vaccine enhancement of ICB recently reported. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deconvolving SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine impact on immunotherapy-related survival in a pandemic

Real-world data suggest that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines, administered within 100 days of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment (“peri-ICI vaccination”), may improve ICI effectiveness, potentially ...

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Great to see that @oxcio.bsky.social Max is thinking big before his DPhil viva this morning! #croissantasaurusrex

🎓 Best of luck to Max Quastel, who’s defending his DPhil thesis today! He’ll be giving a pre-viva talk open to everyone, come along and cheer him on. Break a leg, Max! ✨ #CIODphil

We’re happy to be in Liverpool for this years @britsocimm.bsky.social congress: In today’s “What’s hot in cancer immunology?” session, Prof David Withers presented our new data on an orthotopic colorectal cancer model for the first time! 🐭💪

CIO is at @britsocimm.bsky.social BSI congress in Liverpool. Look out for presentations, posters and session chairs from CIO members @witherslab.bsky.social @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social

The Sim lab is at BSI Congress with two posters @britsocimm.bsky.social Come see what we’ve been up to! Numbers 400 and 403.

Tomorrow we welcome Jonathon Worboys from the University of Manchester to our CIO seminar series. Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’

Today, our PostDoc @lisav17.bsky.social has presented her progress on alternative experimental approaches to our current Kaede system in the @oxcio.bsky.social weekly seminar! 🧬🔦

UK NK 2026 in Cardiff. January 9th. Be there. eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-nk-confer… Hosted by Rich Stanton, Ceri Fielding & Eddie Wang

Welcome DPhil class of 2025! Great to have you in CIO.

🤩CIO Cake Alert!! Anjum made this amazing lemon blueberry sponge cake for Felipe’s @galvez-cancino.bsky.social birthday from a TikTok recipe 🍰💙 But she promised to add it to our recipe collection making it truly generational-friendly!We’re so excited that homebaked cakes are back to CIO again 🎉

In this weeks @oxcio.bsky.social seminar, our PostDoc Pascale presented her current progress on setting up #SingleCellSequencing experiments and their analysis for the @witherslab.bsky.social in Oxford! 🖥️💡🐭 Exciting!!!

A big part of the CIO team will be at the @britsocimm.bsky.social Conference in Liverpool! You might spot our DPhil student (soon-to-be Dr) Max, featured in this year’s poster.

British Society for Immunology@britsocimm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There’s still time to submit a late breaking abstract for #BSI25! Poster presentations help you share your research, connect with experts and peers, and strengthen your professional profile. Deadline: Wednesday 22 Oct ➡️ https://bit.ly/467fObc

Scientists at NDM's @oxcio.bsky.social and the @dunnschool.bsky.social are joining together to develop an #mRNAVaccine for children with a rare type of #cancer. Using funding from Alice's Arc, their aim is to improve #rhabdomyosarcoma treatment 💉 Learn more 👉 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/ndm-sci...

Today we welcome Associate Prof. Amir Horowitz from the Tish Cancer Institute at Mt Sinai to the CIO Seminar Series. Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'

Hugo, a DPhil student in our department, created a brain teaser about #immunopeptidomics. Can you help us solve it? #AntigenPresentation #Immunology #OxfordOpenDoors

Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors

Today we kicked off the @oxcio.bsky.social weekly seminar presenting our most recent achievements🔬 Our PostDoc @nabinapun.bsky.social gave insight into her research on myeloid cells in the TME our RA @ioannisguida.bsky.social presented a conclusion of his work in the #WithersLab before he leaves us!

The early bird deadline for ‪@thebacr.bsky.social‬ Cancer Immunology conference has been extended to the 18th of August! Talks will include discussions on: • Antibody Immunotherapy • Technological Advances in Cancer Immunology • Cellular Therapies Sign up here ⬇️ www.bacr.org.uk/event/cancer...

Yesterday we finished with prize-giving and drinks in the garden🥂🌱! 🏆 Posters for Bas, Cindy & Charlotte📃; postdoc talk for Qian 👩‍🏫 & best embossing artwork for Group8 🧑‍🎨 Shoutout to Lisha for the Rhodes House tours, acknowledging its history, the good and the uncomfortable ⚖️. What a day! #CIOawayday