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Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…
Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise
Added: 21 Jan 2025
Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…
Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research
Added: 14 Nov 2024
Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…
Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding
Added: 27 Oct 2024
Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…
Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link
Added: 8 Oct 2024
Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…
Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research
Added: 8 Sep 2024
The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…
Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies
Added: 26 Aug 2024
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…
Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples
Added: 2 Aug 2024
Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…
Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis
Added: 11 Jun 2024
AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot canc…
Global oncology trial investigator sites increased by half in five years, finds new Phesi analysis
Added: 28 May 2024
Global cancer trial investigator sites have increased 50% in just five years but led to a rise in t…
Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…
Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…
Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…
Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…
Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …
MRC £2 million targets hard to treat cancers
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Cancers with notably poor survival rates are the targets of a £2 million Medical Research Council …
Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…
