POG Research

We can't believe that it's already been a week since our LSC25 symposium! Thanks to everyone who came along! Here's a family photo: @UofGlasgow @UofGCancerSci @DrHeatherGJ @CoplandMhairi #LSC25

Happening now: CML 2L TKI and beyond clinical case studies, one being delivered by @horne_gillian @POG_LRC @UofGCancerSci on last day of #BSH2025

We are so proud to have @horne_gillian as part of our team here at POG!

New paper alert! Prof. Mhairi Copland has recently published a paper on CML, designed for medial students to understand more about the disorder! You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Next up in our #MeetTheResearcher series, we have Dr Lauren Hope. Having completed her PhD here at POG, Dr Hope is currently working as a research associate in @LabWheadon looking at bone marrow modelling @laurenhope97

We're thrilled to announce our Annual Golf Day will take place this year at Balmore Golf Club on the 18th May! 18 holes followed by a 2 course dinner, all in support of our research centre! Please email FIMAC4463@gmail.com by the 9/5/25 to enter We can't wait to see you there!

Did you know that we're on @bluesky ? bsky.app/profile/pogres… Follow us to keep up to date on the work that we do here at POG!

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A respected clinical academic with 230+ publications and involvement in multiple clinical trials, Prof. Copland is pioneering new treatments for leukaemia.

Meet our inaugural #MeetTheResearcher: Director Prof. Mhairi Copland! Prof. Copland earned her PhD on novel drug combinations to eradicate Ph+/BCR::ABL+ stem cells in CML at the University of Glasgow under our own Prof. Tessa Holyoake. @CoplandMhairi

Exciting news! On Monday, we’re starting a new series titled ‘Meet The Researcher’ - In this series, we will introduce group leaders, post-doctoral researchers, and PhD students here at POG! Watch this space!

@LabWheadon @horne_gillian This project has been generously funded by the Joan Snodgrass PhD studentship, which we are very grateful for!

New Studentship Alert! We have a new and exciting studentship working with @LabWheadon and @horne_gillian titled: ‘Overcoming myeloid leukaemic stem cell persistence and chemoresistance in the endosteal niche’. Look at the happy supervisors! (More details below) 👇

This is an exciting project that compliments recent successful funding from the NC3Rs.

The project will utilise a novel and fully developed in vitrohumanised 3D self-structuring bone model to investigate leukaemic stem cell persistence and behaviour within short-term (<3 months) and long-term (>1 year) culture.

We hope you enjoy them! Well done to everyone involved

Seven slides for staining, Six clean data plots, Five grant re-submissions! Four buffer stocks, Three PCRs that worked, Two glowing Westerns, And a pipette calibrated perfectly!

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my group leaders gave to me… Twelve projects pending, Eleven flow plots gating, Ten late-night emails, Nine gels resolving, Eight primers ordered 👇 Happy Christmas!!

This project will involve validating the bone marrow niche model, testing chemotherapeutic drugs, advanced Brillouin-confocal microscopy and performing biological assays to characterise normal, pre-malignant and malignant samples, with Professors Helen Wheadon and Mhairi Copland.

This project will focus on cell-to cell interactions and how the architecture of the bone marrow niche is remodelled during malignancy. LSCs dormancy and chemoprotective properties of the bone marrow niche will be areas of interest.

We are hiring!! We are looking for a research assistant/ associate to get involved in an EPSRC Programme Grant that aims to engineer an in vitro bone marrow niche to control stem cell regulation, metastatic evolution and cancer dormancy Apply below 👇 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…