Oxford Cancer

Oxford cancer researchers are rapidly translating scientific discovery into better outcomes for patients Hear from our Directors @tim_tje & Mark Middleton about what Oxford cancer research is all about and what makes @UniofOxford & @OUH_Research the place for medical innovation

Wrapping up the event, OxCODE Associate Director @leedham_simon summarises OxCODE’s history and achievements Thanks to our sponsors @moderna_tx and Veritie Diagnostics and all participants and attendees for a stimulating conference celebrating our 5 year anniversary! #oxcode24

"We now know that cancer does not come from nowhere." Prof Sarah Blagden, director of a new research collaboration between pharma giant GSK and the University of Oxford, tells #R4Today about the development of a new 'pre-cancer' vaccine that could target the disease earlier.

'This partnership represents a step forward in cancer research.' Professor Irene Tracey comments on the launch of a new £50million immuno-prevention collaboration between @UniofOxford and @GSK to advance novel cancer research. 👇 cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-an…

We are privileged to have @GeorgiaBBlack @QMUL_WIPH give the final keynote of the OxCODE symposium on the organisation of non-specific symptom cancer pathways #oxcode24

In our last session, we hear about diagnosing cancers with non-specific symptoms in @OUHospitals SCAN (Fergus Gleeson @OxfordOncology & Claire Friedemann Smith @OxPrimaryCare) and barriers to research participation (Julie-Ann Moreland @OUHospitals & Aduke Onofowokan) #oxcode24

How to get your research funded? We heard insights from our panel: Talisia Quallo @CRUKResearch Florence Theberge @The_MRC Janette Rawlinson @OxfordCancer PPI @FrancoiseSHowe #oxcode Chaired by @sarah_blagden   #oxcode24

Last before lunch, we hear lightning talks from James Chettle @OxfordOncology @NatalieJooss @MRC_WIMM #oxcode24

Switching gears to risk stratification, we hear from Ling Yang @Oxford_NDPH on chronic pathogen infections and the risk of cancer and Andres Tamm @OxPrimaryCare on FIT for colorectal cancer risk stratification #oxcode24

We warmly welcome our keynote speaker in the early cancer biology session, Sam Janes @lungsforliving @DoM_UCL, who gave a fascinating summary of his research on pre-invasive lung cancer progression #oxcode24

Day 2 of the OxCODE symposium begins with the early cancer biology session featuring: Asger Jacobsen @MRC_WIMM on pre-leukaemic clonal selection @leedham_simon @HumanGeneticsOx on spatial biology to understand colorectal cancer development #oxcode24

Welcome back to the Oxford Centre for Cancer Early Detection and Prevention (OxCODE) symposium! Today we will hear the latest on early cancer biology, risk, diagnosing cancer with non-specific symptoms and a panel discussion on getting research funded. Stay tuned! #oxcode24

OxCODE Associate Director @sarah_blagden closes the first day and encourages further conversations over networking drinks Thanks to our sponsors @moderna_tx and Veritie Diagnostics #oxcode24

In our final talk of day 1, we are honoured to hear from keynote Dame Molly Stevens @KavliOxford, who discusses an impressive array of new bioengineering approaches to treat and detect cancer #oxcode24

In our early detection technologies session, Fergus Gleeson shares the outputs from @dartlunghealth in lung cancer screening and @mikepavlides_1 @RDMOxford describes a liver MRI project building on @DeLIVER_HCC #oxcode24

We hear from two recently funded @CRUKResearch preventive cancer vaccine projects: Nancy Zaarour @oxfordahmedlab @Ox_wrh on OvarianVax David Church @HumanGeneticsOx on LynchVax #oxcode24

Kicking off our session on preventive cancer vaccines, Catriona Gilmour Hamilton @OxfordCancer and PPI rep @anna_fry share the lessons learned so far from PPI consultations on the research to use vaccines to prevent cancer #oxcode24

Last before lunch, we hear lightning talks from: @LucyDenly @Ludwig_Cancer @DVVavoulis @OxfordOncology Yi-Jhih Huang @OxfordOncology @lucygoudswaard @BristolCancer Learn more about their research at the poster session over lunch! #oxcode24

Next is a panel discussion on translating research for patient benefit, featuring: Hazel Beaver @OxfordCancer PPI Claire Brown @OxfordSciEnt @annadowrick @oxprimarycare @velculescu @hopkinskimmel Chaired by @EleanorBarnesOx #oxcode24

Continuing with tech: @McCullaghGroup @OxfordChemistry discusses metabolomics for early detection @sarah_blagden @OxfordOncology & Eleni Adamopoulou @NDMOxford describe their use of immunopeptidomics to discover vaccine targets to prevent BRCA-associated cancers #oxcode24

We are delighted to host Victor Velculescu @velculescu @hopkinskimmel as our first keynote speaker at the OxCODE Symposium Victor shared his work on cell-free DNA fragmentomics for early detection of a variety of cancers   #oxcode24