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Thomas R. Cox
@trcox.matrixandmetastasis.com

Professor & Head of the Matrix & Metastasis Lab at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research & UNSW Sydney
Gadigal Country
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🔬Pancreatic / Lung / Breast / Bowel Cancer & all things extracellular matrix 🧫

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Biology 58%
Environmental science 16%
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Ep4, S3 of the Garvan’s podcast: “Medical Minds” is out now!

I got the chance to talk about some of our labs ongoing work on fibrosis & cancer!

Why is it important? How does it feed into progression? And how does it affect treatment?

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Available to stream on Apple & Spotify!

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The MRS is excited to announce the awardees for the 2026 MRS Awards.

Each will be presenting at the 2026 Biennial Congress in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 28 - July 1, 2026, don't miss it!

🎉Congratulations to all of our awardees! 🎉

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🚀 Two weeks to go!
The ECR Meeting brings together early-career scientists driving the next wave of metastasis research.

⚡ Don’t miss:
💡 Inspiring talks from rising leaders
💬 Community-led discussions
🌍 A global metastasis community

🗓️ Register by Nov 18 ➜ bit.ly/4qyxE0o
Program ➜ bit.ly/4qtpVR9
2nd MRS Early Career Research Virtual Meeting | Metastasis Research
The 2025 MRS Early Career Research Virtual Meeting is a two day meeting aimed at engaging trainees and early career researchers from around the world and highlighting recent advances in metastasis research through keynote presentations, invited talks, panel discussions, and selected talks from abstracts. The meeting is organized and hosted by the Early Career Leadership Council (ECLC) of the MRS. Abstracts are being accepted for consideration for oral presentations. Abstract submission is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical students, residents, clinical fellows, and researchers within 3 years of starting their own independent research group. Registration for this meeting is free for MRS Members!
metastasis-research.org

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🚀 The program is LIVE!
Our ECR Virtual Meeting brings together trainees & junior PIs pushing the frontiers of metastasis research.

💡 Inspiring talks
🤝 Community-led discussion sessions
🌍 A global Metastasis Research Society

Program ➜ bit.ly/4qtpVR9
Register by Nov 18 ➜ bit.ly/4qyxE0o

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🎗️ October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth!

💗The MRS honors survivors and researchers, including our MRS president, Dr. Alana Welm, who recently received Innovator of the Year award for advancing & sharing patient-derived breast cancer models enabling precision medicine. bit.ly/493BMiL

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Excited to present at the @metastasisresearch.bsky.social webinar soon. Registration is free!

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Metastatic disease affects 20-30% of early breast cancer patients. This is the frontier where we need to focus.🎯

Mac4Me’s goal is to help transform metastatic breast cancer from a typically terminal condition into a chronic or potentially curable one.

#MetastaticBreastCancerAwarenessDay

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Interested in establishing your own research group?
Our support package for new Group Leaders includes:

🥼2 #Postdocs, a technician & 2 PhD students + lab costs
🔬Full access to core facilities
🧪Access to the MCRC #Biobank
✔️Mentorship, #grant advice & more

www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...

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Had a fantastic time at @myueg.bsky.social week in Berlin, sharing science and meeting new colleagues/pals!

Huge thanks to @metastasisresearch.bsky.social for making it possible for me to attend and share our research

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As our Goodbye Flat Biology conference in Essen coincides with #WorldCancerResearchDay, what better way to mark the occasion than with a group photo? #WCRD @wcrd24sept.bsky.social

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Attending a meeting? Early career MRS members can apply for a bursary! metastasis-research.org/for-research...
🚨Next bursary deadline is:October 1! 🚨

🎉 Congratulations again to our latest MRS Travel Bursary winners!

🌍 Shona Ritchie (Australia)
🇺🇸 Abby Jackson (USA)
🇮🇱 Avishai Maliah (Israel)
MRS Meeting Bursaries | Metastasis Research
The Metastasis Research Society is pleased to announce the availability of up to 10 Early Career Researcher (ECR) travel scholarships annually. These scholarships aim to support young investigators in presenting their metastasis research at national and international conferences.
metastasis-research.org

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Don't miss our next webinar by Zoi Diamantopoulou on "Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis" - September 22, 2025 - more details and register here: metastasis-research.org/2025/09/11/z...

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Pioneering trial targeting dormant residual cancer cells by L. Chodosh, A. DeMichele et al., @penncancer.bsky.social Proof-of-concept that targeting dormant RTCs in breast cancer survivors depletes MRD. NCT03032406. Congratulations for this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Targeting dormant tumor cells to prevent recurrent breast cancer: a randomized phase 2 trial - Nature Medicine
A combination of mouse model data and data from a randomized phase 2 trial in patients with breast cancer in remission demonstrates feasibility, safety and a reduction in residual tumor cells followin...
www.nature.com

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How do #metastases survive (and thrive!) in the #brain microenvironment?

In our review, now online @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we discuss the recent findings on #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastases:
Learn all about how #cancer cells adapt to, and communicate with, this unique environment 🧠

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