Daniel Brewer

Publication alert 📣 First paper of 2026! 🌟 We review recent developments in molecular & genetic biomarkers in prostate cancer active surveillance. @danbrewer Open access 🧬👇 mdpi.com/2073-4425/17/1… @MDPIOpenAccess

The annual Norwich Medical School Cancer Genetics Team Movember bake sale is on! Come along to the Bob Champion Research and Education building and feed yourself with some tasty treats. @ueamed @movemberuk

One day to go. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior bioinformatician to join the Cancer Genetics team on the project “Identifying patients with aggressive prostate cancer by detecting molecular subtypes in urine”. 3 years starting in Feb 2026. bit.ly/3Wt3Lk8

Come and join the Cancer Genetics team in the lovely Norwich. We have a three year position for a senior bioinformatician starting in Feb 2026. Click the link for further details. bit.ly/3Wt3Lk8 #postdoc @ueamed @UEAResearch #bioinformatics #cancer

A one year opportunity has arisen for a lab-based molecular scientist to join the Cancer Genetics team on the @ProstateUKProfs project “Identifying patients with aggressive prostate cancer by detecting molecular subtypes in urine”. Starting Feb 2026. bit.ly/4o9a6xD

New studentship available in the cancer genetics team at @UeaMed, UK. This PhD is about investigating whether the presence of bacteria is directly causing prostate cancer development. Feb 2025. Stipend and fees available to those that are eligible. uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doc… #PhD

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior bioinformatician to join the Cancer Genetics team on the Prostate Cancer UK funded project “Identifying patients with aggressive prostate cancer by detecting molecular subtypes in urine”. 3 years post. bit.ly/3Wt3Lk8

@CancerInNorwich @GenomicsEngland Thank you to all the study funders, participants and co-authors.

@CancerInNorwich This work is focussed around the @genomicsengland 100,000 genome dataset A great summary from Abraham can be found here:x.com/AbrahamGihawi/… An interesting article in Science on the controversy this helps address can be found here: science.org/content/articl…

A new paper is out from our research team at the Norwich Medical School at @uniofeastanglia titled "The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer" available from doi.org/10.1126/scitra…. Led by @AbrahamGihawi

We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student @YuchenGe1 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… and the accompanying news piece, science.org/content/articl…

Many thanks to @danbrewer for your support and guidance through the years and to the other co-authors, funders, @GenomicsEngland and the patients that made this work possible

We demonstrate some microbial patterns hold real clinical promise — from detecting infectious disease to uncovering potential prognostic markers. Read more here 👉science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We also see the same patterns in other datasets: 📊 PCAWG 📊 TCGA - Cleaner signals produced by a fantastic paper today from Peter Ge, @StevenSalzberg1 & team) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The results hold up across methods: ✅ Conventional statistics ✅ Machine learning ✅ Dimensionality reduction

In our new paper, we dig into Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project. We find distinct microbial signals in colorectal cancer (and to a lesser extent oral cancer)

Some microbes are well known in cancer: 🦠 Hepatitis → liver cancer 🦠 HPV → cervical & oral cancers But beyond these, can microbial DNA really help distinguish tumour types?

Finding microbes in cancer sequencing data has been controversial. Are we seeing real biology… or just contamination + batch effects?

And the official 2024 Oxford Word of the Year is... Brain rot 📱🧠 #OxfordWOTY

Exciting news article by our own Clinical Fellow Stephanie Smith on how dogs might be able to smell prostate cancer. urologynews.uk.com/features/featu…