This year the NCRI’s annual cancer conference was in Glasgow for the first time. The MCRC team took a trip north of the border to catch up with the rest of the UK’s cancer research community. Here are some of our highlights.

Will Bleaney is a clinical fellow who has just entered the second year of his PhD project, supervised by Prof Andrew Sharrocks, Prof Yeng Ang and Dr Was Mansoor.

Megan Thompson is a PhD student who has just entered the second year of her four-year project.

Niluja Thiru is a clinical fellow who has just entered the second year of her PhD project, supervised by Professors Catharine West, Ananya Choudhury and Robert Bristow.

My MCRC focuses on the individuals that work for the MCRC. Each post can take whatever shape the writer wants. This month Postdoctorial Scientist Richard Rebello reflects on his past 6 months at the MCRC. 

Mike Thorpe attended the #MCRCancerTeamScience Prostate Town Hall as a patient advocate. This was his experiance. 

‘We have been conducting our team-science town halls at MCRC as many of you will have attended. Our team science workshop, jointly run with HeRC on 31st July, feeds directly into this work.

This week we welcome guest blogger Nina Hayes-Thompson, HeRC Communications Officer, to tell you more.”

David Jenkins is, in his own words, “an unusual purchasing officer". We wanted to find out a little more about him. 

As you will have learnt from our "What does Team Science mean to the MCRC" article, a big part of our role in the Operations team is to bring together our disease site, and cross-cutting theme, groups to town-hall meetings. The aim of these larger assemblies is to form ideas for team science projects.

Whilst the concept of teamwork and collaboration is familiar to most, the idea of Team Science specifically (and how best to facilitate this) was one that I wanted to find out more about.

As such, from 21st- 24th May 2018, I attended the Science of Team Science 2018 (SciTS) conference in Galveston, Texas. 

In order to develop our ambitious strategy, and to ultimately achieve our objectives, we therefore recognise that we need to bring large numbers of people together and break down any potential barriers. To us, Team Science is essential.