Amanda Stranks
@astranks.bsky.social
PPI/E & Comms Lead, NIHR Cambridge BRC.
Passionate about communication and public involvement in research! Lapsed antipodean. Views my own. She/her.
Passionate about communication and public involvement in research! Lapsed antipodean. Views my own. She/her.
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⏰ Two weeks to apply for CPFT #Research funding by Friday 5 December
If you want to build research capacity and skills in your team to deliver health studies to #ImproveCPFT then this fund could support you.
✅ Check the full guidance and how to apply here:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/apply-for-re...
If you want to build research capacity and skills in your team to deliver health studies to #ImproveCPFT then this fund could support you.
✅ Check the full guidance and how to apply here:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/apply-for-re...
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
⏰ Two weeks to apply for CPFT #Research funding by Friday 5 December
If you want to build research capacity and skills in your team to deliver health studies to #ImproveCPFT then this fund could support you.
✅ Check the full guidance and how to apply here:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/apply-for-re...
If you want to build research capacity and skills in your team to deliver health studies to #ImproveCPFT then this fund could support you.
✅ Check the full guidance and how to apply here:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/apply-for-re...
Thanks to the wonderful team who ran this event, and everyone who came to support it!
What a fantastic series of talks from our 3 speakers, Dr Anna Moore Winter, Dr Kate Baker & Dr Chenqu Suo at our Public Open Event in Translational research in infants, children and young people! Topics included big data, rare childhood disorders & brain development! @cuh.nhs.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Thanks to the wonderful team who ran this event, and everyone who came to support it!
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👋 Meet our team behind the Cambridge Psychedelic Research Group led by Lili Galindo @cpft-nhs.bsky.social + find out how promising psychedelic-assisted therapies could enable recovery from treatment-resistant #MentalHealth conditions in this @cam.ac.uk headline story:
➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/your...
➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/your...
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
👋 Meet our team behind the Cambridge Psychedelic Research Group led by Lili Galindo @cpft-nhs.bsky.social + find out how promising psychedelic-assisted therapies could enable recovery from treatment-resistant #MentalHealth conditions in this @cam.ac.uk headline story:
➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/your...
➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/your...
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RESEARCHERS do you want to use our wonderful PPI Panel to review your documents or hold focus groups? Please note our Christmas deadlines in the slide below! The PPI office will close from
22 Dec-4 Jan 2026 & no doc reviews will be sent to the Panel from 15 Dec-6 Jan @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
RESEARCHERS do you want to use our wonderful PPI Panel to review your documents or hold focus groups? Please note our Christmas deadlines in the slide below! The PPI office will close from
22 Dec-4 Jan 2026 & no doc reviews will be sent to the Panel from 15 Dec-6 Jan @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
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📣 Don't miss out on this FREE, F2F, open event to learn more about paediatric research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease!
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
LEARN something you didn't know before in our FREE talk 20 Nov @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social from doctors & researchers about their paediatric translational research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease. ALL WELCOME! bit.ly/4nCoTjf @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📣 Don't miss out on this FREE, F2F, open event to learn more about paediatric research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease!
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
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📣 Intellectual property guidance is changing for the #NHS - if you would like to find out more don't miss the #InnovationBreakfast with @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social at 8.30am. 🕣☕️
Learn how this applies to our local health system.
Register a free place here: ⬇️
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Learn how this applies to our local health system.
Register a free place here: ⬇️
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Select tickets – CBC Innovation Breakfast: An Update on Intellectual Property Guidelines for the NHS – The Hub - AstraZeneca, Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington
CBC Innovation Breakfast: An Update on Intellectual Property Guidelines for the NHS – The Hub - AstraZeneca, Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington, Wed 12 Nov 2025 -
Intellectual Property (IP) Gui...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣 Intellectual property guidance is changing for the #NHS - if you would like to find out more don't miss the #InnovationBreakfast with @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social at 8.30am. 🕣☕️
Learn how this applies to our local health system.
Register a free place here: ⬇️
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Learn how this applies to our local health system.
Register a free place here: ⬇️
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
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Today, on World #ScienceDay for Peace and Development, we are joining our EIROforum partners in celebrating how science contributes to society 🌎
Thanks to you, we are able to develop new technologies and make discoveries that help address some of today’s most pressing challenges.
Thanks to you, we are able to develop new technologies and make discoveries that help address some of today’s most pressing challenges.
🌎 On World Science Day for Peace and Development, senior leaders across EIROforum thank citizens for their trust and support.
Peer Bork from EMBL talks about how trust and support helps bring scientists in different disciplines together to make the world a better place for generations to come.
Peer Bork from EMBL talks about how trust and support helps bring scientists in different disciplines together to make the world a better place for generations to come.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Today, on World #ScienceDay for Peace and Development, we are joining our EIROforum partners in celebrating how science contributes to society 🌎
Thanks to you, we are able to develop new technologies and make discoveries that help address some of today’s most pressing challenges.
Thanks to you, we are able to develop new technologies and make discoveries that help address some of today’s most pressing challenges.
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Our opportunities update has more opportunities for #mentalhealth and #addiction #researchers than ever!
Find your next fellowship, small grants funding, workshop and more. You can even filter by opportunity type or career stage.
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunitie...
Find your next fellowship, small grants funding, workshop and more. You can even filter by opportunity type or career stage.
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunitie...
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our opportunities update has more opportunities for #mentalhealth and #addiction #researchers than ever!
Find your next fellowship, small grants funding, workshop and more. You can even filter by opportunity type or career stage.
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunitie...
Find your next fellowship, small grants funding, workshop and more. You can even filter by opportunity type or career stage.
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunitie...
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🚨Cambridge researchers are leading the way in developing the world’s first cot-side functional neuroimaging system to help rapidly detect brain injuries such as cerebral palsy in newborns.
🚨 Learn more: bit.ly/47INInH
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @braininjuryhrc.bsky.social @gowerlabs.bsky.social
🚨 Learn more: bit.ly/47INInH
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @braininjuryhrc.bsky.social @gowerlabs.bsky.social
Cutting-edge baby brain scan technology is world first - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
A team effort to develop the world’s first cot-side functional neuroimaging technology to speedily detect brain injuries including cerebral palsy in newborn babies is being spearheaded in Cambridge.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨Cambridge researchers are leading the way in developing the world’s first cot-side functional neuroimaging system to help rapidly detect brain injuries such as cerebral palsy in newborns.
🚨 Learn more: bit.ly/47INInH
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @braininjuryhrc.bsky.social @gowerlabs.bsky.social
🚨 Learn more: bit.ly/47INInH
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @braininjuryhrc.bsky.social @gowerlabs.bsky.social
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What's Dr Anna Moore Winter got to say about harnessing big data to make paediatric research (focusing on child mental health) easier? Find out at our Open Event 20 Nov featuring talks & posters from local paediatric researchers. FREE! Light refreshments! bit.ly/4nCoTjf
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What's Dr Anna Moore Winter got to say about harnessing big data to make paediatric research (focusing on child mental health) easier? Find out at our Open Event 20 Nov featuring talks & posters from local paediatric researchers. FREE! Light refreshments! bit.ly/4nCoTjf
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Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service.
The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.
Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.
Get in touch
The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.
Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.
Get in touch
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service.
The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.
Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.
Get in touch
The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS.
Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇.
Get in touch
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🚨 Time is running out to book yourself onto our free, public open event to hear the latest research on early life and development!
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov | 4-7pm
☕️ Opportunity to network & refreshments included!
👋 All welcome!
👉Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov | 4-7pm
☕️ Opportunity to network & refreshments included!
👋 All welcome!
👉Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨 Time is running out to book yourself onto our free, public open event to hear the latest research on early life and development!
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov | 4-7pm
☕️ Opportunity to network & refreshments included!
👋 All welcome!
👉Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov | 4-7pm
☕️ Opportunity to network & refreshments included!
👋 All welcome!
👉Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social
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✅ Want to learn more about Health Data Science? Or hear from leading experts on topics like AI?
🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers!
🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
@eliasallara.bsky.social
🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers!
🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
@eliasallara.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
✅ Want to learn more about Health Data Science? Or hear from leading experts on topics like AI?
🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers!
🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
@eliasallara.bsky.social
🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers!
🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
@eliasallara.bsky.social
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📢 Want to join a community driving scientific, medical and technological innovation?
Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!
🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...
#TherapeuticSciences #MPhil #Cambridge #Masters
Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!
🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...
#TherapeuticSciences #MPhil #Cambridge #Masters
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢 Want to join a community driving scientific, medical and technological innovation?
Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!
🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...
#TherapeuticSciences #MPhil #Cambridge #Masters
Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!
🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...
#TherapeuticSciences #MPhil #Cambridge #Masters
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PhD Applications now open! Join a world-class community training the next generation of genome scientists and clinicians.
Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/g_JfNuFE
📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
#ScienceCareers
Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/g_JfNuFE
📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
#ScienceCareers
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
PhD Applications now open! Join a world-class community training the next generation of genome scientists and clinicians.
Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/g_JfNuFE
📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
#ScienceCareers
Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/g_JfNuFE
📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
#ScienceCareers
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Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.
📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.
📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.
📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.
📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
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Calling all future research stars! 🔬
Step into the spotlight with the BTS NHSBT Dragons’ Den Competition!
🧪 Open to:
- Medical & surgical trainees
- Early career allied health researchers
🏆 Successful submissions will be showcased 5th March in Llandudno
📥 Submit here! bit.ly/4mCd9wp
#BTSDragonsDen
Step into the spotlight with the BTS NHSBT Dragons’ Den Competition!
🧪 Open to:
- Medical & surgical trainees
- Early career allied health researchers
🏆 Successful submissions will be showcased 5th March in Llandudno
📥 Submit here! bit.ly/4mCd9wp
#BTSDragonsDen
Microsoft Forms
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October 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Calling all future research stars! 🔬
Step into the spotlight with the BTS NHSBT Dragons’ Den Competition!
🧪 Open to:
- Medical & surgical trainees
- Early career allied health researchers
🏆 Successful submissions will be showcased 5th March in Llandudno
📥 Submit here! bit.ly/4mCd9wp
#BTSDragonsDen
Step into the spotlight with the BTS NHSBT Dragons’ Den Competition!
🧪 Open to:
- Medical & surgical trainees
- Early career allied health researchers
🏆 Successful submissions will be showcased 5th March in Llandudno
📥 Submit here! bit.ly/4mCd9wp
#BTSDragonsDen
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We're looking forward to the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form on Saturday 11th October - who's coming?
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We're looking forward to the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form on Saturday 11th October - who's coming?
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Join us for a Free, In-Person, Open Event highlighting Translational Research in infants, children and young people
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Join us for a Free, In-Person, Open Event highlighting Translational Research in infants, children and young people
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social
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📢 Today is the first ever #CancerCachexiaAwarenessDay!
Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes people with cancer to lose weight & muscle even when eating normally. Find out more on the @cancerresearchuk.org ➡️ zurl.co/kxTa3
Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes people with cancer to lose weight & muscle even when eating normally. Find out more on the @cancerresearchuk.org ➡️ zurl.co/kxTa3
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📢 Today is the first ever #CancerCachexiaAwarenessDay!
Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes people with cancer to lose weight & muscle even when eating normally. Find out more on the @cancerresearchuk.org ➡️ zurl.co/kxTa3
Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes people with cancer to lose weight & muscle even when eating normally. Find out more on the @cancerresearchuk.org ➡️ zurl.co/kxTa3
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In Cambridge, patients & families are co-driving childhood cancer research – shaping priorities & ensuring it meets real-world needs. 🙌
Join our PPI network 👉 zurl.co/A4msb or email ctya.ppie@cancer.cam.ac.uk
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #CCAM25 @crukcamctya.bsky.social
Join our PPI network 👉 zurl.co/A4msb or email ctya.ppie@cancer.cam.ac.uk
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #CCAM25 @crukcamctya.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
In Cambridge, patients & families are co-driving childhood cancer research – shaping priorities & ensuring it meets real-world needs. 🙌
Join our PPI network 👉 zurl.co/A4msb or email ctya.ppie@cancer.cam.ac.uk
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #CCAM25 @crukcamctya.bsky.social
Join our PPI network 👉 zurl.co/A4msb or email ctya.ppie@cancer.cam.ac.uk
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #CCAM25 @crukcamctya.bsky.social
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Apply now for the #MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences at the University of #Cambridge, starting Oct 2026!
1-year full-time course with a 6-month research placement, combining world-class academic & industry training.
Developed with the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences.
🔗 bit.ly/3KdJrk9
1-year full-time course with a 6-month research placement, combining world-class academic & industry training.
Developed with the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences.
🔗 bit.ly/3KdJrk9
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Apply now for the #MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences at the University of #Cambridge, starting Oct 2026!
1-year full-time course with a 6-month research placement, combining world-class academic & industry training.
Developed with the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences.
🔗 bit.ly/3KdJrk9
1-year full-time course with a 6-month research placement, combining world-class academic & industry training.
Developed with the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences.
🔗 bit.ly/3KdJrk9
Beautiful autumn mists this morning
September 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Beautiful autumn mists this morning
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Curious how cancer research turns into new treatments? Reserve your ticket NOW for Experimental Cancer Medicine Demystified for expert talks & patient stories.
📅 Fri 3rd October | 10:00-15:30
📍CRUK Cambridge Institute or online
Register today:
👉 zurl.co/sOHTU (in person)
👉zurl.co/Jfb5y (online)
📅 Fri 3rd October | 10:00-15:30
📍CRUK Cambridge Institute or online
Register today:
👉 zurl.co/sOHTU (in person)
👉zurl.co/Jfb5y (online)
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Curious how cancer research turns into new treatments? Reserve your ticket NOW for Experimental Cancer Medicine Demystified for expert talks & patient stories.
📅 Fri 3rd October | 10:00-15:30
📍CRUK Cambridge Institute or online
Register today:
👉 zurl.co/sOHTU (in person)
👉zurl.co/Jfb5y (online)
📅 Fri 3rd October | 10:00-15:30
📍CRUK Cambridge Institute or online
Register today:
👉 zurl.co/sOHTU (in person)
👉zurl.co/Jfb5y (online)