Special Seminars

We are pleased to announce that Dr Mirjana Efremova from the Wellcome Sanger Institute will present at the BCI on Wednesday 9th October. Mirjana did her BSc (Computer Science) and MSc (Bioinformatics) in Macedonia. She then completed her PhD in the field of computational cancer immunology at the Medical University of Innsbruck.  Mirjana is interested […]

As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Angelo Agathanggelou from the Institute for Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham to present at the BCI on Thursday 10th October. For more information about Dr Angelo Agathanggelou’s research please click here. The seminar is entitled: ‘Targeting the RNaseH2-defect in human […]

We are pleased to welcome Dr Roberto Bellelli from The Francis Crick Institute, to present at CRUK Barts Centre on Tuesday 5th November. The seminar is entitled: ‘Mechanisms of genetic and epigenetic instability: Pol Epsilon and beyond’ Genomic instability is a major hallmark of cancer and understanding its nature and origins may provide avenues for […]

As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Richard Beatson from King’s College London to present at the BCI on Thursday 7th November. For more information about Richard Beaton’s work please see below. The seminar is entitled: “Sialic acids as innate immune activators; balancing self and non-self to repair or […]

We are pleased to welcome Dr Rakesh Heer, Joint CRUK/RCS(Eng) Clinician Scientist Fellow and hon. Consultant Urological Surgeon - Newcastle University, to present at Barts Cancer Institute on Monday 11th November.  For more information about Dr Heer’s work, please click here. The seminar is entitled: ‘Human prostate stem cell biology in homeostasis, ageing and disease’ […]