News
The latest science and news from the Institute.
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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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Richard Gilbertson elected to EMBO membership
6th July 2022
Senior Group Leader, Professor Richard Gilbertson, has been elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in recognition of his high-quality life science research.
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Joachim Hanna awarded Guts UK/ Dr Falk Prize
1st July 2022
Joachim Hanna was awarded the Medical Student Prize for an essay describing his research project, which investigated the intestinal inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
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Cambridge cancer specialist to Race for Life
21st June 2022
Institute researcher and oncologist, Dr Sara Lightowlers, is combining PhD study, looking after her two young children, and fitness as she prepares to take part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
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Cambridge researchers receive £4m from Cancer Grand Challenges to take on some of cancer’s toughest challenges
16th June 2022
The team will investigate cancer cachexia – a debilitating wasting condition people often experience in the later stages of their cancer that imparts a poor prognosis and quality of life – seeking to develop novel therapies.
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