World Cancer Research Day 2021

The 24th of September marks World Cancer Research Day, a day to celebrate and acknowledge the tremendous efforts to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. Read More

Meet Dr Christoph Oing

After completing his fellowship from the Christie School of Oncology he now leads the Medical Oncology Sarcoma Unit at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany Read More

Meet Dr Bettina Wingelhofer

She's a postdoc working on Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, one of the most common types of leukaemia in elderly patients. Read More

Meet Dr Abigail Bryce-Atkinson

She’s a postdoc based within the Advanced Radiotherapy Group and investigates radiotherapy as a treatment for childhood cancer Read More

National Postdoc Awareness Week

To mark Postdoc Appreciation Week, we speak to three postdoctoral researchers about their experiences and research in Manchester. Read More

Meet Dr Tania Seale

Tania is a a postdoctoral researcher in the Manchester Lymphoma Group, Division of Cancer Sciences Read More

Screen it loud and clear: At-home urine tests for HPV could be the key to preventing cervical cancer

Dr Jen Davies-Oliveira talks about the importance of early detection research in HPV Read More

Review suggests best ways to treat to reoccurring prostate cancer

The review funded by Cancer Research UK, in which academics at the Universities of Manchester and Leeds, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust screened 2,197 articles is published in the journal Frontiers in Oncology Read More

NCITA comment article published in the British Journal of Cancer

The comment article provides a comprehensive overview of the NCITA infrastructure and its goals to establish standardised protocols and quality-assured processes Read More

#PrideInEducation at the MCRC

For this year’s Manchester Pride, we recognise the huge support within the MCRC for our vision of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in education. Read More

Development of a 3D in vitro lung cancer model to track genetic instability

We speak to Emmanouela Mitta about her ACED funded PhD working on the development of a 3D in vitro lung cancer model to track genetic instability. Read More

Dr Harry Warner

Harry completed his PhD supervised by Dr Patrick Caswell in 2019 focused on mass spectrometry-based proteomics to characterise the Rho- family GTPase RhoA in ovarian cancer cells Read More

MCRC Director’s Update – July 2021

The first meeting of the MCRC International Advisory Board, an update to the development of the Paterson Building, and receiving the Weiss Medal from ARR all help to cap off an exciting July at the MCRC. Read More

Meet Leanna Goodwin

She's a Research Practitioner at the digital Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (digital ECMT) working on early phase clinical trials Read More