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All-IRC meeting looks to the future

8 November 2023

moller-institute-300x300.jpg Thirty members of the IRC, including postdoctoral researchers, academics and clinicians, came together in Cambridge on 21 September 2023 to share progress and map out milestones for the remaining 12 months of this ambitious programme. Opening the meeting, Professor George Malliaras, IRC...

MPs demand reform to brain tumour research funding

4 September 2023

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Brain Tumours (APPGBT) says wide-ranging changes are needed in how brain tumour research is funded because the current funding system is “unfit for purpose”. The call comes in a new report " Pathway to a cure – breaking down the barriers" based on an inquiry held by the APPGBT which...

IRC announces new partnership with the University of Leeds

7 August 2023

head_shot_surgeon_2.jpeg The IRC has announced a new partnership with Ryan Mathew and Heiko Wurdak of the University of Leeds. The new partnership will focus on the translation of local therapeutic drug delivery technologies to treat brain cancer. The partnership, established in April 2023, combines Mathew and Wurdak’s...

Read this month’s Cancer in Sight blog: Living with pancreatic cancer – a patient’s perspective

30 November 2022

This month’s Cancer in Sight blogs is by Sally, a patient and public involvement (PPI) member of the Cambridge Pancreatic Cancer Centre who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2011 . The Cancer in Sight series of blogs brings a range of perspectives to discuss issues around the IRC’s programme to develop new...

IRC Investigator secures Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept Award

10 November 2022

Professor Oren Scherman has received an MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) award aimed at acceleration of the translational pathway of a promising invention. The CiC award has been granted to Prof Scherman, Director of the Melville Laboratory and Professor of Supramolecular and Polymer Chemistry in the Yusuf Hamied Department...

IRC team at Meet the Researchers public event

4 November 2022

Members of the IRC team took part in a June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund Meet the Researchers event that brought together mesothelioma patients and their families with IRC researchers and clinicians. Meet the Researchers events are an opportunity for researchers and academics to engage with patients and practitioners...

Read this month’s Cancer in Sight blog – Targeted delivery: taking a multidisciplinary approach towards a shared goal

31 October 2022

The latest in our monthly series of Cancer in Sight blogs is by IRC Programme Manager Claire McGlynn who considers the benefits of bringing together a multidisciplinary team and future prospects for the programme This month’s blog titled ‘ Targeted delivery – taking a multidisciplinary approach towards a shared goal’...

Read latest Cancer in Sight blog on the future promise of MOFs

6 October 2022

The just-published Cancer in Sight blog, written by Professor David Fairén-Jiménez, lead of the Adsorption and Advanced Materials Lab at the University of Cambridge and IRC Investigator, sets out the future promise of MOFs to target hard-to-treat cancers. Explaining how his research is positioned in the wider IRC programme...

Listen to IRC Investigators in conversation on Connect: Health Tech podcast

4 October 2022

The hour-long podcast shines a light on the interdisciplinary structure of the IRC programme that spans five founding universities and brings together clinicians, scientists and engineers to develop novel technologies to target three hard-to-treat cancers – glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and mesothelioma. The newly...

IRC hosts seminar on local therapeutic delivery in brain cancer

23 September 2022

The IRC welcomed Ryan Mathew, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust f or the second in a series of interdisciplinary seminars. The sound of the Boomtown Rats singing ‘I don’t like Mondays’ marked the start of the seminar, now available to view on the...

All-IRC meeting looks to the future

MPs demand reform to brain tumour research funding

IRC announces new partnership with the University of Leeds

Read this month’s Cancer in Sight blog: Living with pancreatic cancer – a patient’s perspective

IRC Investigator secures Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept Award

IRC team at Meet the Researchers public event

Read this month’s Cancer in Sight blog – Targeted delivery: taking a multidisciplinary approach towards a shared goal

Read latest Cancer in Sight blog on the future promise of MOFs

Listen to IRC Investigators in conversation on Connect: Health Tech podcast

IRC hosts seminar on local therapeutic delivery in brain cancer

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