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World Cancer Research Day 2018
24th September 2018
The 24th September is World Cancer Research Day- a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of cancer research. Thanks to a united effort by researchers from around the world, cancer survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years, and 50% of those diagnosed with cancer now survive.
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CRUK Barts Centre key partner in new £14m CRUK City of London Centre
17th September 2018
We are delighted to announce that researchers from the Barts Cancer Research UK Barts Centre will play a leading role in the new Cancer Biotherapeutics Hub launched by CRUK – The ‘CRUK City of London Centre’. The new centre will bring together world-leading cancer researchers from across London – CRUK Barts Centre, UCL, KCL and the Francis Crick Institute.
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Study links widely-used drug azathioprine to skin cancers
14th September 2018
A drug used to treat inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis, and prevent organ rejection in transplant patients, has been identified as an important contributor to skin cancer development in a study by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, including our Barts Cancer Research UK Centre (BCC) Bioinformatics team, the University of Dundee and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
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VOICE 2018: From bedside to bench
12th September 2018
BCI held the 2018 VOICE (Vision On Information, Confidence & Engagement) course- a study week that aims to take patient advocates from bedside to bench by providing an introduction to basic cancer biology, research terminology and study design.
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‘Chromosomal Catastrophes’ in Colorectal Cancer
5th September 2018
Understanding how cancers develop and change over time is a big challenge. For obvious reasons, scientists can’t simply sit and watch a cancer growing in a person. Members of the Evolution and Cancer Laboratory at the BCI, including lead author Dr William Cross, were part of a collaborative team that set out to identify when particular genetic changes arise during bowel cancer development.
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SNPnexus: Assessing the impact of genetic variation
30th August 2018
A team of researchers from BCI’s Centre for Molecular Oncology, led by Prof Claude Chelala, have made new developments to SNPnexus- a computational tool that allows for the assessment of the functional effect of sequence variants within the genome.
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