JvG Cancer Research

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

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 Ilayda for best poster prize in BSI midlands event @eroz_ilayda @britsocimm @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer

LEAP event It was great to meet the public and talk research! @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer @NTUsciTech

Congratulations to PhD student Almigdad Elhajana and his supervisor Dr Silvia Ottaviani for receiving third prize at 2025 NTU Star conference! Well done!

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 👇

New preprint from Dr Ottaviani and colleagues. Congratulations!

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

Interested in networking with other scientific or clinical researchers and updates in Immunology? Book your place in this fascinating event! @NTU_Metabolism @ntu_research @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer #NTU_Immunologu_group

Cancer research Nottingham symposium CRN Great talks and vibrant research environment! @ntu_research @NTUSciTech @vanGeestCancer @eroz_ilayda @NTUBIOSCIENCES

Congratulations to my PhD Almigdad for receiving a poster prize at the Cancer Research Nottingham Symposium 2025 today! Keep up the good work! #lncRNA #PancreaticCancer 🏆🤩 #proudPI @vanGeestCancer @NTUBIOSCIENCES @ntu_research

📣 Kayleigh Stewart is running the Robin Hood half-marathon on behalf of ⁦@NottmTrentUni⁩, in support of our cancer centre! If you would like to contribute it would be much appreciated! Well done Kayleigh and good luck! 👏🏻💪🏻🏃‍♀️‍➡️💚 justgiving.com/page/kayleigh-…

🚨 My lab is hiring! 🚨 We are looking for a Research Assistant to help us unravelling the role of #lncRNAs in #PancreaticCancer. Apply if you love lncRNAs and cancer biology 🧬💜 Come join us @NTUBIOSCIENCES⁩ ⁦@vanGeestCancer⁩ Deadline: 18/09 vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

📣📣Did you see that one of our articles was discussed by major news outlet, The Guardian!? We wanted to share this incredible accomplishment for @maria_hatziap and their team! @guardian The Guardian 🔗ow.ly/S4n350SEzR1 GHA Article 🔗ow.ly/esqv50SEzR0

Many congratulations to my colleague and friend Dr Maria Hatziapostolou for this study on #PancreatiCancer published on @AGA_GHAdvances. Let’s keep on advancing research on this devastating disease! 💪🏻💜🧬🔬@vanGeestCancer @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @PancreaticCanUK

Paper 👇 ghadvances.org/article/S2772-…

Congratulations to our own Dr Maria Hatziapostolou @maria_hatziap and colleagues on this study advancing #PancreaticCancer research 🔬 🧬💜 Thanks to the main funder @PancreaticCanUK for making this work possible and @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @ntu_research

New equipment alert ‼️ Our brand new #Xenium @10xGenomics is up and running! First run completed today 🤩! Our researchers are looking forward to gaining new insights in #singlecellspatial imaging. #XeniumXplorers @LabRutella @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @ntu_research @NTUNews

Hello Xenium @10xGenomics! It’s up and running in @vanGeestCancer! Training slides running overnight. How exciting!!! @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @ntu_research

📢 @SoapboxScience Nottingham is happening this weekend! Saturday 13th of July at Speakers’ Corner 11am till 2pm. I will be there talking about how cancer spread and how we study this in the lab. Come along if you are around! @NTUSciTech @NTUBIOSCIENCES @vanGeestCancer