For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women across diverse fields. From philosophy and music to AI and cosmology, the festival will highlight the pioneering work of women who have shaped our understanding of the world in profound ways.
Dr Mireia Crispin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and leads a research group focusing on the development of multi-omic data integration models to understand how tumours evolve and respond to treatment.
Cambridge researchers are to lead a £10 million project that could result in doctors being able to predict your individual chances of getting cancer and offer personalised detection and prevention.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has announced that ambitious plans can proceed for Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, which promises to change the story of cancer forever.
A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed its first participants.
The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply the latest technology to the world’s major challenges.
A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has today announced a £173 million investment in its institute at the University of Cambridge - the largest single grant ever awarded by the charity outside of London.
In 1994, a landmark paper identified a gene – BRCA1 – that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers when faulty. Thirty years on, we look at the major impact it has had on how we understand and treat cancer – and why there is still much to learn.
Combining screening for lung and kidney cancers could help identify undiagnosed cases of kidney cancer, say researchers as they release the results from a study showing this approach is feasible and acceptable to participants.
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