Cancer Grand Challenges
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Paul Buckley King's College London sharing sobering data on disparities in breast cancer with black women 40% more likely to die from breast cancer. He & Team SAMBAI Cancer Grand Challenges tackling these cancer inequities #EACR2024 Cancer Research UK National Cancer Institute More details: cancergrandchallenges.org/teams/sambai
Great to hear talks from members of #CancerGrandChallenges teams SPECIFICANCER and NexTGen at #EACR2024 yesterday!
Thank you The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research for your support of these teams - an incredible example of the power of collaboration 🤝
Do not miss it! Today at 15.00h! Dr Lorenzo de la Rica Lorenzo de la Rica (he/him), a Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program #PEBC Alumni, ann now a Cancer Grand Challenges Cancer Grand Challenges Officer will present these grants funded by Cancer Research UK and National Cancer Institute
Pleased to share our study: Restoring adiponectin via rosiglitazone ameliorates tissue wasting in mice with lung cancer Henning Langer Shakti R. @ActaPhysiologica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap…
So important this is addressed, and we understand differences in biology to tackle inequalities! We will do so with project #SAMBAI Cancer Grand Challenges Melissa B Davis, PhD Nicolas Robine Sheeba Irshad Isidro Cortes-Ciriano Prof David K. Chang Pancreatic Cancer UK
Next Monday we’ll learn more about the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative (Cancer Grand Challenges) together with Lorenzo de la Rica (he/him). Join us:
🗣️ “Team Science at scale: the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative”
🗓️ Monday, 10 June
🕒 15:00 CEST
📍 IJC Auditorium + Online
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Congratulations Howard Chang!
Dr. Chang (@StanfordMed, #CancerGrandChallenges team eDyNAmiC) has just been awarded the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 2024 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Science 🌟
Fantastic start to the conference organized by Cancer Grand Challenges PROMINENT teal leaders Nuria Lopez-Bigas (@IRBBarcelona) Paul Brennan (@IARCWHO) & Allan Balmain (@UCSFCancer) on 'Cancer Promotion to inform prevention'. What a beautiful venue too 🏫! Sant Pau - Campus Salut Barcelona
irbbarcelona.org/en/events/canc…
Cancer rates among under-50s in UK have risen 24% since 1995, figures show
Aparna Raj Parikh shares how Cancer Grand Challenges team PROSPECT aims to tackle the rise: 'we want to gain a deep mechanistic understanding of biological processes & environmental causes [...]'🔽
theguardian.com/society/articl…
🎉 We're thrilled to kick off our #BarcelonaBiomed #conference 'Cancer Promotion: Understanding Cancer Promotion to Inform Prevention'!
🤝With the support of Fundación BBVA.
👥🔬Join us to explore the latest research and strategies to fight #cancer . Let's make a difference
📢 New Q&A with Allan Balmain and Mark Taylor ( #CancerGrandChallenges team PROMINENT and authors of today's paper published in Science Magazine) 📢
We spoke with them about their findings - including the context, controversies and what’s next.
Read 👇 cancergrandchallenges.org/news/network-a…
Congratulations #CancerGrandChallenges team PROMINENT on their paper published today in Science Magazine 🌟
Using a network approach, they reveal roles for cancer stem cells in cancer promotion.
Read 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Congratulations #CancerGrandChallenges team PRECISION on their recent paper in Journal Of Pathology!
Find out more 👇
Jelle Wesseling Jos Jonkers Van Rheenen Lab Colinda Scheele
#ICYMI : Today's print issue of nature features a landmark paper by #CancerGrandChallenges team Mutographs, first released online on 1 May.
In this blog, learn more about the findings, team members who drove the work and what's yet to be discovered 👇
cancergrandchallenges.org/news/global-te…
Thank you Pancreatic Cancer UK for inviting me to discuss how we can tackle #cancer inequalities and how we will do so with team #SAMBAI Cancer Grand Challenges Melissa B Davis, PhD Pancreatic Cancer Action Breast Cancer Now Prostate Cancer UK Sheeba Irshad PrecisionPanc Prof David K. Chang
➡️ cancergrandchallenges.org/teams/sambai
Thankful to serve as LUNGevity Foundation's representative on Cancer Grand Challenges Team CANCAN and looking forward to hearing updates from other advocates on today's Advocacy Cafe meetup
In this recent BioTechniques article, our Head of Research, Gemma Balmer-Kemp, discusses:
✔️ Our new teams tackling the T-cell receptors and Solid tumours in children challenges 🧪
✔️ How she sees Cancer Grand Challenges impacting the cancer research space
And more. Read 👇
In The Lancet, Jelle Wesseling ( #CancerGrandChallenges team PRECISION) & others discuss how the field is moving away from considering DCIS as a precursor to invasive breast cancer, and finding the crucial balance between its over and undertreatment. Read 👇
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Congratulations Professor René Bernards (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, #CancerGrandChallenges Scientific Committee member), who has just been elected to the Fellowship of the The Royal Society!
He's one of 22 new Foreign Members - such an incredible achievement 🌟
Congratulations to #CancerGrandChallenges team eDyNAmiC on this paper, which was just published in the May issue of Cancer Discovery 👏
Read about the findings in Ben Drapkin's thread below 👇