UCL-led international research team wins $25m Cancer Grand Challenges funding

Team REWIRE-CAN, led by Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck of the UCL Cancer Institute, will receive up to $25m over approximately five years to take on the rewiring cancer cells challenge.

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Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge.

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Basal cell of origin resolves neuroendocrine–tuft lineage plasticity in cancer - Nature

Basal cells, rather than neuroendocrine cells, have been identified as the probable origin of small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine–tuft cancers, explaining neuroendocrine–tuft heterogeneity and offering new perspectives for targeting lineage plasticity.

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Recovery of human upper airway epithelium after smoking cessation is driven by a slow-cycling stem cell population and immune surveillance

The upper airway epithelium in humans is maintained in homeostasis by a resident population of basal stem cells. In the presence of tobacco smoke these gain mutations that significantly increase their...

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Pre-Cancer Immunology

The Pre-Cancer Immunology Lab (James Reading Lab) is mapping pre-invasive T cell dynamics during carcinogenesis to detect and intercept cancer development.

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Origins of common lung cancer that affects smokers discovered

The ‘cell of origin’ of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant in the lung have been discovered, in a new study in mice and humans from researchers at UCL, the Wellcom...

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