Scientists create 'metal detector' to hunt down tumours
10 April 2025Cambridge researchers have created a ‘metal detector’ algorithm that can hunt down vulnerable tumours, in a development that could one day revolutionise the treatment of cancer.
AI can be good for our health and wellbeing
07 April 2025Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.
Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day
07 March 2025For 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.
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Mireia Crispin
12 February 2025Dr 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.
£10 million programme to use AI and state-of-the-art analytics to fight cancer
22 January 2025Cambridge 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.
Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital given green light by government
21 January 2025The 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.
Landmark 'pill-on-a-thread' cancer screening trial welcomes first participants
28 November 2024A 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.
Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy
17 October 2024The 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.
Supertroopers: CAR-T cell cancer therapy
16 October 2024A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.
Cancer Research UK makes unprecedented £173m investment in University of Cambridge
15 October 2024Cancer 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.
