Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Cellular Conversations that Control Cancer

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

Thea D Tlsty, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0511.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serious Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical Treatment and Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Malignant Glioma

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Harry Bulstrode - Neurosurgeon, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 04 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raaj Praseedom.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Title to be confirmed

Dr Anna Obenauf from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 16 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

***Please note this seminar is on a Friday***

Christopher Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Valerie M Weaver, University of California, San Francisco.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Judith Campisi, The Buck Institute for Research on Ageing .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Amos Tanay, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00