Edinburgh Cancer Research

Melanocyte lineage dynamics in development, growth and disease In this Review, @Alex_Brombin and Elizabeth Patton @EdinUni_IGC @MRC_HGU @EdinCRC summarise the latest findings in melanocyte development, and how these mechanisms are co-opted in melanoma: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

@EdinUniMedicine @roslininstitute @TheDickVet @EdinUni_IRR @EdinUni_IGC @EdinUniCVS @EdinUniUsher @EdinUni_CRH @giulia_de_togni Congratulations!

On 24 June "Biomarkers in Industry, Health and Disease" symposium organised by the Edinburgh Association of Mass Spectrometrists will take place in IGC in Edinburgh (see the picture for details). It is free to attend but booking required. Booking link: eventbrite.com/e/symposium-bi…

Congratulations to @EC_Southworth - one of the winners of the 2024 Molecular Oncology Writing Competition 🎉🍾👏! Emily is a PhD student at the @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC investigating gynae cancer genetics. Read her award winning text on @MolOncology site👇: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/18…

Phase III breast cancer trial of exemestane vs anastrazole (with contributions from @EdinCRC researchers) showed that statistically standardised ER and PR results provide more accurate prognostic information. Publication in JCO, also presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting:

Don’t miss our @livecmc lead Daniel Palmer & @EdinCRC’s Stefan Symeonides’ poster on #ATTAINMENT: the first-in-human trial of MDX-124 alone & in combination with anti-cancer treatments for advanced solid tumours. @LivUni | @EdinburghUni | @ECMC_UK | #ASCO24

✍️For World Cancer Day, we held a writing competition on the impact of the exposome on cancer risk 📣...and the winners are: 🥇Hayley Brownless, Uni of Edinburgh 🥈@EC_Southworth @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC 🥉Jose Jaime Diaz Larrosa @DKFZ #AcWri #SciComm #SciCom #CancerResearch

Warm welcome to Prof Vincenzo D’Angiolella and his “Ubiquitin signaling in brain cancer” lab @VdangioE3lab. Vincenzo joins @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC @EdinburghUni as Charles and Ethel Barr Chair of Cancer Research. Read more on our website 👇: ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/…

“RFWD3 modulates response to platinum chemotherapy and promotes cancer associated phenotypes in high grade serous ovarian cancer” – paper in @FrontOncology by @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC researchers provides some insights into RFWD3 impact in HGSOC👇: frontiersin.org/journals/oncol…

Central neural mechanisms of cancer cachexia – review by @EdinCRC investigators and colleagues published in Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. Very interesting read for all cancer cachexia researchers 👇: journals.lww.com/co-supportivea…

Recent @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC ovarian cancer research by Robb Hollis @HobbRollis and colleagues published in @gynoncjnls has been featured by @Cure_Ovarian_Ca charity ❤️👇: cureourovariancancer.org/info/research/…

Very pleased to share our preprint. We show how noise stress induces a profound metabolic shift in the heart of noise-stressed mice which can be rescued by blunting ROS. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Great collaboration with @tmuenzel @uni_mainz_eng @EdinUni_IGC @GioIsNow and more

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award for University of Edinburgh and Nuvectis – we have now received a photograph of the winning team🙂 (courtesy of @CR_Horizons). Read the full story on our website: ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/…

“Adjuvant pembrolizumab improves survival in high-risk clear cell renal cell cancer” – important update from the KEYNOTE-564 trial just published in @NEJM ! Read a lay audience summary on our website 👇: ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/…

If you are thinking about applying for @MSCActions Postdoctoral Fellowship and are looking for great place to host your project consider contacting @EdinCRC investigators! Some of them could support your application.

Congratulations to Prof Neil Carragher who has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prof Carragher leads laboratory at @EdinCRC @EdinUni_IGC specializing in drug discovery and cell based screening technologies. rse.org.uk/fellowship/pro…