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BCI IT awarded ISO 27001 certification

29th January 2021

Barts Cancer Institute’s IT Department has been awarded with the ISO 27001 certification, which is the international standard that sets out the specification for an information security management system.

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Researchers develop virus-based treatment platform to fight pancreatic cancer

27th January 2021

Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, and Zhengzhou University have developed a powerful therapeutic platform that uses a modified virus for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. By using the virus in combination with other drugs, the treatment significantly extended survival in preclinical models of pancreatic cancer.

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CAR T cell therapy for pancreatic cancer

22nd January 2021

Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have identified a protein that may represent a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Using this protein as a target, the team successfully created a CAR T cell therapy – a type of immunotherapy – that killed pancreatic cancer cells in a pre-clinical model.

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Study receives prize for Research Excellence in Pathology

14th January 2021

Congratulations to Barts Cancer Institute’s Professor Hemant Kocher, who is co-lead author of the paper selected by The Journal of Pathology for the Jeremy Jass Prize for the calendar year 2019.

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PCRF’s national pancreas tissue bank opens to UK-based researchers

11th December 2020

The UK’s national tissue bank for pancreatic diseases at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, is now open for UK-based researchers needing samples of blood, urine and saliva to aid their research.

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Understanding the role of the bone marrow in blood cell health and disease

3rd December 2020

Congratulations to Dr Miguel Ganuza from Barts Cancer Institute’s Centre for Haemato-Oncology who is the recipient of a Career Development Award from the Medical Research Council. The award of approximately £1.5 million over 5 years will fund a research project that will investigate how the bone marrow supports blood stem cells and how changes within the bone marrow can drive the development of diseases, such as leukaemia.

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