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Newcastle University, UK.
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🎓 Applications are open for the 2027 CRUK Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Scholarship at Newcastle University.
A fully funded 4-year PhD in cancer research, with mentoring, training and career support.
📅 Deadline: 4 Dec 2026
🔗 ncl.ac.uk/cancer/training/st…
Congratulations to our PhD students Ahmed Alsayadi, Phoebe Snow and Emma Barlow on receiving FMS Postgraduate Outstanding Contribution Awards, recognising their outstanding contributions to the NUCancer PGR community.
A brilliant achievement and very well deserved 👏
Members of the REACH team recently took part in Pint of Science Newcastle, sharing how patient voices can help shape cancer research.
The session explored PPIE, qualitative research and creative ways to improve cancer communication.
#PintOfScience #CancerResearch #PPIE
🏆 Ryan Lab success at #LondonCalling2026!
Huge congratulations to Eleanor and Steven, recognised for their telomere-to-telomere chromosome assembly work using nanopore sequencing — with a Spotlight talk win and Highly Commended Poster award.
#NanoporeSequencing #Genomics
Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Hill, Dr Melanie Beckett, Dr Louisa Taylor, Dr Saimir Luli & Prof Steve Clifford on a £310k @LPTrustUK Project Grant to advance medulloblastoma research combining MYC-targeting therapies with radiotherapy.
#Medulloblastoma #ChildhoodCancer
Congratulations to Dr Luke Gaughan, who has received a £212,089 award from @WorldwideCancer to investigate whether targeting DNA repair can improve radiotherapy response in prostate cancer.
#ProstateCancer #CancerResearch #Radiotherapy
Advancing childhood lymphoma research 🧬🏆
Congratulations to Helen Griffin, whose study on exome sequencing in children with non-Hodgkin lymphoma won the Best Experimental & Translational Science Abstract award at #CCLG2026 in Manchester.
Well done, Helen! 👏
Huge congratulations to Richard Gallon, awarded Best Oral Presentation at the InSiGHT Conference in Singapore earlier this March.
A brilliant and well-deserved achievement.
Well done Richard! 👏🏆
#Congratulations #ResearchExcellence #CancerResearch
Fantastic to see our institute on the programme at the Precision Medicine, Genomics and Informatics Theme Symposium.
Huge credit to our speakers driving meaningful progress in cancer research 👏🔬
Two awards, one incredible achievement!
Huge congratulations to NU Cancer’s Camille Drai on winning Outstanding Technician of the Year and Early Career Achievement at the Newcastle University Technician Awards 👏
#NUCancer #NewcastleUniversity #TechnicianAwards
🔬 Thank you to Professor Jonathan Higgins for an excellent #NUCancer Seminar on “Dicentric Chromosomes, Genome Instability, and Cancer.”
Great discussions and insights into chromosome rearrangements and cancer biology.
#CancerResearch #NewcastleUniversity #OncologyResearch
🎉 Great results for the Newcastle Cancer Centre Pharmacology Group at the BPS annual meeting.
🏆 Emma Barlow won Best Clinical Pharmacology Poster and Best Overall Poster
🎤 Daniel Whitaker won Best Oral Presentation (Pharmacogenomics & Toxicology)
Huge congrats to both! 👏🔬
Newcastle University Centre for Cancer retweeted
Cancer research is changing fast, increasingly driven by new research innovations.
Hear from our Director of @NU_Cancer, Prof Steve Clifford about how work at the Centre is advancing cancer research & tackling today's challenges.
➡️tinyurl.com/wzu6e7uf
🎉 Congrats to Dr Abdullah Malik on securing £21,549 from @BASO_ACS & @RosetreesT to research radiotherapy in liver cancer, focusing on the immune microenvironment.
The only trainee invited to present at BASO Congress, outstanding work! 👏
#CancerResearch #LiverCancer
Newcastle University Centre for Cancer retweeted
I have a fully-funded #PhD #studentship #scholarship @EngineeringNCL @NU_Cancer on the development of #biosensors for monitoring key biomarkers relevant to blood #cancers using novel materials #MXene #graphene #2Dmaterials. Closing date: 18 Feb 26. Link 👇
ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-…
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Hannah Stewart!
Dr Stewart has been awarded funding through the @royalsociety Early Career Research schemes, recognising outstanding early-career researchers tackling major scientific challenges.
A huge congratulations on this well-deserved achievement!
📷 You can find out more about the awards here:
royalsociety.org/.../early-c…