Silvia Ottaviani

An interesting event for the public to engage with research at Nottingham Trent University on the 11th of December!

Over 100 #PancreaticCancer researchers joined us in Birmingham last week for #PCUKForum2025 🔬 Two great days of discussion & debate around key research challenges in the field plus plenty of opportunities for networking & collaboration. Thanks to everyone who came along!

And that’s a wrap! I’ve enjoyed so much the #PCUKForum2025! Thank you @PancreaticCanUK for organizing this annually. Such a great opportunity to have the time to discuss and talk to all involved in pancreatic cancer research 💜

We’re back in Birmingham for day two of our #PCUKForum2025! Our CEO @dijupp is introducing todays programme which includes heterogeneity in #PancreaticCancer and strategies for therapeutic innovation.

It’s fantastic to have a number of people with lived experience of #PancreaticCancer joining us at this year’s #PCUKForum2025. This afternoon they are helping to lead discussions on purposeful #PPIE & turning insight into impact in research.

En route to Birmingham for the @PancreaticCanUK annual Discovery and Translational Research Forum! Looking forward to catching up with colleagues and discussing #PancreaticCancer #PCUKForum2025 💜

It's officially #PancreaticCancerAwarenessMonth! 💜 Pancreatic cancer is hard to diagnose and difficult to treat, so early detection can help save lives. Symptoms can be vague and may vary. But by raising awareness, more people will know the signs to look out for.

Extremely proud of Shraddha, research assistant in my lab, for winning this year’s Images of Research award🥇! She captured a beautiful picture showing the complex nature of #PancreaticCancer. Huge congratulations on this achievement! @vanGeestCancer @NTUBIOSCIENCES @NTUNews

Congratulations to my PhD student Almigdad for winning third place🏆 for best presentation at NTU Star conference! Almigdad’s project investigates the role of #lncRNAs in #PancreaticCancer progression. Well done Almigdad! @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer @ntu_research

Our very talented Shraddha from the lab has been selected for the NTU Images of Research Competition 2025. Her image (number 5) is a beautiful image of #lncRNA in stage 3 #pancreaticcancer 🤩 @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer The public vote is now open. Please support! Link 👇

🚨 pre-print alert 🚨 Very excited to share our work on how chomotherapy affects cell-to-cell communication. If you are interesting in #p53, #DNAdamage, #scRNA-seq have a read! Thanks to all authors 🤩⁦@NTUBIOSCIENCES⁩ ⁦@vanGeestCancer⁩ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thank you to everyone who joined the NTU Researchers at Clifton Library Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity. @NottsFOSAC

It was great to share in the Nottingham Festival of Science. Lovely cell shapes made by kids! @NTUBIOSCIENCES @MarkChrist_Lab @vanGeestCancer @NTU_Metabolism @ntu_research

What a great morning of science fun @NottsFOSAC 🧬 🧫 🧪 Thanks to all wonderful kids and parents that came along and got involved in many fun science activities! Thanks to all @NTUSciTech students and staff from @NTUBIOSCIENCES and @NTUEng that made it happen!

Fantastic sessions at Clifton Library today for @NottsFOSAC 🥳Our departments of @NTUEng and @NTUBIOSCIENCES along with PhD students ran fun experiments, including extracting DNA from strawberries, explaining how the brain works and why some animals can see in the dark! 👀

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: scim.ag/3WWWoSD

Today is #WorldCancerDay 🌍 and we’re standing with everyone affected by pancreatic cancer. If you or someone you know has pancreatic cancer, we are here for you. To speak to one of our specialist nurses, email at nurse@pancreaticcancer.org.uk or call 0808 801 0707. 💜

Thrilled to contribute to the Nottinghamshire Festival of Science and Curiosity this February. Can’t wait to show some science to little ones and families, including my daughters 🤩

70 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, could it now become a Lego structure? 🧱 MSc Bioengineering student Daniel has designed @Lego_DNA that will become an official Lego set if it gets 10,000 supporters Help turn it into a reality👇 ideas.lego.com/projects/c92cd…

It took 3 years, 4 rounds of reviews, 96 VISIUM samples, 10 cancer types, and 1 clinical trial, but it's finally out: The spatial landscape of Cancer Hallmarks reveals patterns of tumor ecological dynamics and drug sensitivity Here's what's new 👇 cell.com/cell-reports/f…