News
The latest science and news from the Institute.
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Pioneering new ways to diagnose childhood brain tumours trialled by researchers in Cambridge
20th March 2023
Dr Jessica Taylor has been awarded a Future Leaders Award to develop novel techniques to distinguish different types of medulloblastoma.
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Tracking resistant cancer cells may lead to new breast cancer treatments
20th December 2022
Scientists from the IMAXT team have managed to identify and kill those breast cancer cells that evade standard treatments in a study in mice.
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CI scientists shortlisted for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards
29th November 2022
Institute researchers and spin-out companies have been shortlisted for the Cancer Research Horizons Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards.
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Raza Ali awarded €1.5 million European Research Council Starting Grant
22nd November 2022
The award will further his research on immunotherapy and the tumour microenvironment in breast cancer.
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Lina Hacker awarded Postgraduate Student Thesis Prize
19th October 2022
The Prize is awarded each year to an exceptional postgraduate student who has completed an outstanding piece of work during their studies.
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Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
29th September 2022
The Gilbertson Group have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body.
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Can epigenetics prime evolution? – Dr Sito Torres-Garcia receives prestigious fellowship
21st September 2022
Dr. Sito Torres-Garcia from our Hannon Group has been selected for The Branco Weiss Fellowship.
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Professor Steve Jackson to join the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
26th August 2022
One of the world’s leading experts in DNA repair, Professor Steve Jackson, has accepted an appointment as a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
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Ancient signalling pathway could provide treatment hope for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
22nd July 2022
An ancient signalling pathway, known as the Hedgehog pathway, plays a vital role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and may be a druggable target for treatment, according to new research from the de la Roche group.
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