News from the MCRC
Research Spotlight
14/10/2021
Research on detecting cancer in primary care wins RCGP Research Paper of the Year award
Dr Garth Funston and colleagues have won the 2020 Research Paper of the Year for Clinical Research, awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners, for their paper on detecting cancers in primary care.
MCRC Blog
13/10/2021
Meet the MCRC: Christine Mullen
Meet the MCRC Strategic Operations Team. We sat down with Christine Mullen, Executive Assistant to the MCRC Directors, to find out more about her and her role at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre.
MCRC Blog
13/10/2021
Meet the MCRC: Caroline Stone
Meet the MCRC Strategic Operations Team. We sat down with Caroline Stone, Executive Assistant to the MCRC Director to find out more about her and her role at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre.
MCRC Blog
13/10/2021
STEM Engagement: An Interview with Dr Heather Williams
Impact Case Study
Changing National Healthcare Guidance – A Lynch Syndrome Example
As a result of the PETALS study, Manchester researchers changed NICE Guidelines so now women diagnosed with womb cancer are now screened for Lynch syndrome.
Director's Update
24/09/2021
World Cancer Research Day 2021
Alumni Stories
23/09/2021
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
Researcher Stories
23/09/2021
Meet Dr Bettina Wingelhofer
Researcher Stories
23/09/2021
Meet Dr Abigail Bryce-Atkinson
She’s a postdoc based within the Advanced Radiotherapy Group and investigates radiotherapy as a treatment for childhood cancer
MCRC Blog
23/09/2021
National Postdoc Awareness Week
Researcher Stories
23/09/2021
Meet Dr Tania Seale
Tania is a a postdoctoral researcher in the Manchester Lymphoma Group, Division of Cancer Sciences
MCRC Blog
22/09/2021
Screen it loud and clear: At-home urine tests for HPV could be the key to preventing cervical cancer
Research Spotlight
09/09/2021
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
Research Spotlight
01/09/2021
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
