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Happy Halloween from these two!

Lab group

Melanoma UK today visited the Smiths Melanoma hub today learning about the amazing work all of these lovely people are doing! Thanks for funding us! @mcrcnews.bsky.social

Attending #ESMO25
Join us to learn about sustainability integration into cancer care and the environmental impacts of AI 👇
@myesmo.bsky.social @robchuter.bsky.social @beckilee.bsky.social @pawelsobczuk.bsky.social @ouchinternational.bsky.social @irishdocsenv.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social

Amazing work throughout the UK to smash our recruitment target!

Screenshot of the front page of the carers in STEMM survey report

We are pleased to announce the publication of our STEMM sector-wide survey

The report highlights our findings & suggests recommendations. Now available to download here carersinstemm.co.uk

Please share especially w/ institutions, funders & allies

@laurawolz.bsky.social @carterlj.bsky.social

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history.

"The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
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Very pleased to say DETECTION2 has just randomised it's 50th patient! Awesome work by patient groups @melanomafocus.bsky.social , UK clinical teams @christieinstitute.bsky.social R+I and SCTU funded by @cancerresearchuk.org

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Research Technician:Oxford Road

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Research Technician:Oxford Road

The Lee lab is expanding! We are really interested in mechanisms of local and systemic immune tolerance particularly in liver metastases - X2 research technicians
💡 Creative fun environment
🌱 Opportunities to grow
🫂 Highly collaborative with clinical+basic research
📢 Please spread word!

Calling all ECRs in cancer and metastasis research. Don't forget to register for the upcoming ECR Virtual Symposium in November (FREE for MRS members). More details here metastasis-research.org/2025/08/06/2...

⭐We have a clinical fellow opportunity with the melanoma team! ⭐

Very friendly and supportive team
Lots of learning opportunities including clinical trials and immune therapy

Apply here👇

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Transitory Schwann Cell Precursor and hybrid states underpin melanoma therapy resistance and metastasis Melanoma plasticity, driven by phenotype state switching, underlies clinically relevant traits such as metastasis and therapy resistance. As melanoma progression is thought to recapitulate aspects of ...

🚨 Exciting new paper alert 🚨 From the Marie lab
⭐They have identified new melanoblast cell states which are reawakened in metastasizing and immunotherapy resistant melanoma
⭐ Can target using hdac inhibitors
#melsm #melanoma #cancer

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Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.

I’m happy to share our latest work on tumour necrosis! During my time in the @megeblad.bsky.social lab, we found that tumour necrosis is not a passive phenomenon secondary to tumour growth, but an active phenomenon driven by neutrophils and NETs! Thread below: (1/13)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations 🎉

Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations!

UK cancer breakthrough as simple blood test could help pinpoint treatment EXCLUSIVE: Skin cancers can be among the most aggressive forms of the disease so using drugs to shrink them must be used with precision.

Mathematical models and ctdna have reached the clinic - the ultimate personalised trial testing adaptive targeted therapy highlighted in the news today!
#EBEcancer25

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Absolutely loving this course - fantastic discussions between all and the delegates and faculty. So many exciting Q's coming out of this!

Excited to share our new study on how resistance to AKT inhibition is linked to lineage differences within breast cancer 👇🏽 Stellar work @colindhratcliffe.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and also surprisingly/worryingly good AI generated podcast 🎧 notebooklm.google.com/notebook/28e...

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing the data

5th Crick International Cancer Conference

The deadline for early bird registration for the 5th Crick Cancer Conference has been extended.

See the full programme and book by 15 July to take advantage of reduced ticket rates for early bookers ⤵️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

Conference poster

Super proud of our fellow Tomasso Bosetti presenting his poster at #ASCO25 on the impact of timing of immune therapy and outcomes across cancers - the early 🐦catches the 🪱!

Our data and the lung cancer trial also presented are very compelling for early time of day immune therapy treatment
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Higher or Senior Scientific Officer in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research View details and apply for this Higher or Senior Scientific Officer vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary from 39,805 to 49,023 Reporting to: Prof Trevor Graham Duration of ...

Single cell whizz with green fingers for molecular genomics? Want to develop and apply new technologies for profiling #cancer #evolution? Like single cell WGS + ATAC: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perhaps our senior scientific officer role is for you?

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Happy international trials day! Bit more info on one of the trials we have developed from research done @cruk-mi.bsky.social and now bringing to patients thanks to CRUK and @southamptonctu.bsky.social

Jobs mathematical-oncology.org

The Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology @mathonco.bsky.social (Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida) is also advertising an Open Rank Tenure-earning Faculty Position in Mathematical Oncology. For this and other openings see mathematical-oncology.org/jobs

Review @cp-immunity.bsky.social
Role of specialized sensory neuron subtypes in modulating peripheral immune responses
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Fantastic news for Europe - does anyone know what this means for the UK and whether we are part of it now we are back in Horizon?