@francoiseshowe.bsky.social
Coordinating research into cancer precision prevention and early detection at the University of Oxford. #oxcode Former yeast molecular geneticist. Views my own.
🚨Government ministers are visiting Oxford this morning to announce £120m funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers. New stations will be built at Cowley and Littlemore, with a journey time of just 7 minutes into Oxford. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...
23.10.2025 05:13 — 👍 50 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 7New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer.
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We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
Join our healthy volunteer blood donation campaign!
We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford!
Find out more ⬇️
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽
📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci...
🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM
🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
Thrilled that our paper is in print @science.org!!
*Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA*
Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight
Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway!
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
Find out more on our website. 👇
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...
Great to see our work on preventive cancer vaccines, including LungVax, featured in this issue!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social
The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc!
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Congrats to our 2025 OxCODE travel awardees, who are attending this week's Cancer Prevention Research Conference! @cancerresearchuk.org
Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...
I’m here at the 2025 Cancer Prevention conference in London! 🎉
I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social
@cancerresearchuk.org
Looking for support between a doctorate and applying for post-doctoral funding? Our post-doctoral awards are now open for applications! oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/training-hub... Closing date: 2 July. @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
12.06.2025 09:24 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming event, 'Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine', taking place @stannescollege.bsky.social on Monday 30th June at 4pm. Further details and registration can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/thinki...
12.06.2025 14:47 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A new travel planning website for journeys in and around Oxford has launched. Oxford Travel Options www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk is created by Low Carbon Oxford North and the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership (ZCOP). It shows transport options and tools for transport beyond the private car.
01.06.2025 13:04 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Another postdoc position working ongside the wider #MuSpAn community is currently open - this time working with Prof Jens Rittscher and others at the intersection of colorectal cancer, machine learning, spatial statistics, and mathematical modelling.
Apply before 30th June!
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promotional flyer for Health Research Showcase - Thursday 29 May, Leiden Square, Westgate Centre, Oxford
It's our Health Research Showcase in two days! Come along to the Westgate in Oxford to find out about the latest in healthcare research oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/he... @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxahpartners.bsky.social @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social
27.05.2025 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2Join us next week to hear Sarah Blagden and team discuss the possibilities and potential barriers associated with recruiting to vaccine trials and eventually rolling out new preventive cancer vaccines!
Full details below ⬇️
We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
🚨 New transatlantic research funding! 🚨
We've partnered with the American Cancer Society to co-fund our Biology to Prevention Award, doubling the funding pot for collaborative UK and US prevention research teams.
Join us for a webinar on 21 May to find out how to apply: bit.ly/445v4pO
Join our Prevention Primer to grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org and the American Cancer Society's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social and @wtklab.bsky.social plus lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists. bit.ly/3EKgzNN
29.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc position now open for applications! Want to come to Oxford and work on epigenetics of myeloid leukaemia? Interested in liquid biopsy for cancer early detection? Apply here: cutt.cx/bskaml1
Please RT!
#job #academia
Calling all Medical Undergraduates! 📢
Don't forget: applications for our DPhil in Cancer Science Scheme will close this Friday 25th April. 🥼
We also have 3 2025 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available. 📚
Apply via our study pages ⬇️. @medsci.ox.ac.uk
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...
Join our Prevention Primer on 24 June and grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social, @wtklab.bsky.social and others, inc lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists.
14.04.2025 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0We are recruiting!! Ads now live for a Data Coordinator and 2 Research Assistants/biobankers to join a new @ludwigcancer.bsky.social - @imm.ox.ac.uk joint initiative to prevent progression from early- to advanced blood cancer. Joint posts with Adam Mead+others in Oxford Ludwig. Links below
27.03.2025 07:59 — 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to Dr David Church (@ndm.ox.ac.uk), who has been awarded a Senior Cancer Research Fellowship from @cancerresearchuk.org! 👏
Read what David had to say on the OxCODE website ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-davi...
Beth Paula presenting “circulating blood platelets as cancer sentinels”
Starting with early detection, @bethpsaila.bsky.social described her amazing work on platelets as carriers of DNA that could be co-opted for cancer detection
Nice shout out for her #OxCODE-funded project also!
Tim Elliott presenting Oxford Cancer’s recent successes
Delighted to be at the @oxfordcancer.bsky.social annual symposium today!
Hearing about the recent successes from @timmunologist.bsky.social and looking forward to the great programme ahead
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cancer Research Programmes Manager to join #OxfordCancer !
The post-holder will provide day-to-day oversight and technical management of a portfolio of translational cancer research projects and programmes.
Apply here ⬇️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're looking for an Information Governance Officer to support the governance, risk management, and compliance elements of activities across the GSK-Oxford Pre-Cancer & Immuno-Prevention Alliance (GO-PRECIsE) and related Oxford Cancer projects.
Interested? See the JD ⬇️
https://buff.ly/40WwuQe
