To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we spoke to four women from across the MCRC partnership to discover the barriers, inspiration and stories behind their cancer research careers.

Events this world cancer day focused on creating connections with the wider communities across Greater Manchetser, embracing our diversity to refine personalised medicine, and improve screening and early detection 

Manchester researchers are part of an international consortium known as ESCALON, which aims to improve both the detection and treatment of hepatobiliary cancers. We spoke to Dr Angela Lamarca to find out more about this consortium.

On November 21st and 22nd, five of University of Manchester MBChB students attended the University of Cambridge's symposium on the MBPhD programme, a new education programme to give clinicians experience of research. Here, we find out about their experience.

Manchester is a founding partner in the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED). But what is ACED, and what early detection research are Manchetser researchers pioneering? We spoke with Martin Bone, ACED Programme Manager, to find out.

This Women and Girls in Science Day there was one person whose name rang out as the perfect fit for an interview. Dr Rachel Eyre is a breast cancer research scientist in the Oglesby Building. She researches breast cancer metastasis, particularly focussing on the role of cancer stem cells and IL1β in driving this process. She is also a mum of three, including twins.

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.