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Bringing together engineering, physical sciences, life sciences and medicine to address key questions in cancer research across @icr.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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👋Hello to the #CancerResearch community on Bluesky. If you want to know more about #ConvergenceScience and how we bring researchers together from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @icrlondon.bsky.social check out our new website page 👇

www.convergencesciencecentre.ac.uk/about/our-mi...
❗One week left to apply for our intercalated #PhD (iPhD) ⌛

If you're a medical student interested in becoming a clinician-scientist, check out our PhD projects for 2026. 👇
🩺 Are you a #MedStudent doing an iBSc? We're looking for future clinician-scientists to join our intercalated #PhD ( #iPhD) programme in 2026.

Explore projects & apply by 20 Nov 👉 bit.ly/48YA5Tp

Please share with your networks!

#CancerResearch #ConvergenceScience #CRUKFunded
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📣Call open for our 2026 Development Fund

Up to £80K for 12 months to support bold, cross-disciplinary #CancerResearch that bridges the life, clinical, #engineering & #PhysicalSciences across @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @icr.ac.uk

➡️ bit.ly/4qVGLID

#FundingOpportunity #ConvergenceScience
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌟Meet the next generation of #ConvergenceScience researchers at our Future Leaders #seminar! Centre #PhD students present their research and share how they navigate different disciplines & shape their scientific paths.

📅Wed 12 November, 3-4pm
Hosted by: @udaibanerji.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4oP1r2Z
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #CancerResearch and #DataScience? 🤔

Applications are now open for our #ConvergenceScience Non-Clinical Data Science PhD programme, in partnership with StatML.

Sign up to 1 of 3 Q+A sessions or check out our website for more information 👉 bit.ly/43bid48
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome our new CSC Cohort!🚀

Huge thanks to Professors McNeish, Isacke & Behrens for their insights, and to Shahrzad Forouzanfar, Bowen Su & Diana David for introducing our facilities. Here’s to a year of discovery, growth & achievement!💪

#PhD #ConvergenceScience #CancerResearch
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🌍 #ConvergingOnCancer: International Online Seminar

An #AcademicSeminar for our partners across #Europe and #Singapore to demonstrate how #ConvergenceScience is used to answer #Cancer related questions.

🗓 Thursday 6th Nov 2025
🕙 10–11am GMT | 11–12 CET | 6–7pm SGT
🔗http://bit.ly/4qmRxqX
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢 We're #hiring a #Health Economist to be part of our #Cancer Technology Catalyst Team to expedite the journey of promising cancer technologies from concept to clinical impact.

Find out more and share with your networks 👇
jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

#ConvergenceScience #Economics
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Over half of #cancers show MYC deregulation - long seen as “undruggable.” #Research from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @icr.ac.uk, with #PhD student James Zhang, finds MYC cancers may be vulnerable to NMT inhibitors.

Learn more 👉http://bit.ly/4on0EGm

#ConvergenceScience #CancerResearch
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
⚡Can light could be used to manipulate tumour-associated bacteria?🦠Find out how Prof Anguraj Sadanandam, Dr Jang Ah Kim and @jameskinross.bsky.social from @icr.ac.uk and @imperialsandc.bsky.social are investigating how this could make #immunotherapies safer and more effective.
#ConvergenceScience
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🤖 Find out how nanotechnology is being used to both prevent the spread and deliver targeted treatment for advanced #ProstateCancer – led by Dr Robert Kypta and a multi-disciplinary team of scientists across Imperial: @imperialsandc.bsky.social @impengineering.bsky.social 👇
#ConvergenceScience
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🩺 Are you a #MedStudent doing an iBSc? We're looking for future clinician-scientists to join our intercalated #PhD ( #iPhD) programme in 2026.

Explore projects & apply by 20 Nov 👉 bit.ly/48YA5Tp

Please share with your networks!

#CancerResearch #ConvergenceScience #CRUKFunded
October 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🔎 Bringing together expertise in #bioengineering, optical #physics and #oncology to enhance earlier detection of #cancer. Find out more about how this #research led by @pantazislab.bsky.social and @udaibanerji.bsky.social is shaping the future of cancer diagnosis. 👇
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Early stages of #metastasis are poorly understood despite causing 90% of cancer deaths. A new project led by Prof Darryl Overby and Prof @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social is looking to develop tools to study #cancer spread in unprecedented detail while reducing the need for animals in research.🐁👇
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🩸Find out more about how a team of scientists, led by Dr
Sylvain Ladame at @impengineering.bsky.social and Prof Nick Turner at @icr.ac.uk are developing better blood tests to predict treatment outcomes in #cancer patients. 👇

#ConvergenceScience #Oncology #CancerResearch
@cancerresearchuk.org
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A study led by our Scientific Director Prof Axel Behrens, found that blocking protein SPP1 can boost survival & stop the spread of #PancreaticCancer in mice. A breakthrough that could pave the way for new targeted treatments.
👉 bit.ly/4gTvG6q
@icr.ac.uk @imperialsandc.bsky.social @nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Is it possible to predict the trajectory of cancer and prevent progression? 🤔 Find out how #ConvergenceScience can answer this at our upcoming #ConvergingOnCancer seminar for colleagues across the @icr.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

📅 Thurs 2nd Oct 2025
⌚ 3-4pm BST
✍️ bit.ly/4pIObhS
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔬 Discoveries in #CancerResearch are stronger when shaped with the people who have experienced #Cancer. Find out why #PPIE matters, how it benefits researchers, and where to get support 👉 bit.ly/41TGN9b   

#BetterResearchTogether #ResearchSupport
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We support the development of new technologies that enable long-term monitoring and prediction of cancer treatment response. Using #ConvergenceScience, a recent study from The ICR and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social demonstrates how a new type of test can achieve this in lymphoid cancers. 👇
🚨 NEW cancer test could predict treatment up to a decade before it’s needed.

Developed by researchers at the ICR and @idibaps.bsky.social, it reads DNA methylation to trace tumour evolution.

This could revolutionise personalised cancer care across many cancer types.

www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr...
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📢 We're #hiring a Health Economist to lead early-stage health economic modelling and health technology assessment (HTA) for cutting-edge oncology innovations. 💻 💊

Find out more and share with your networks 👇
jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

#ConvergenceScience #Economics #Cancer
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🔬 #ConvergingOnCancer: International Online Seminar

Join us to hear how #bioengineering is being used in immuno-oncology research.

🗓 Thursday 4th Sept 2025
🕙 10–11am BST | 11–12 CEST | 5–6pm SGT
🔗 bit.ly/3UtfT3O
August 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📣 Promising new drug combination for #OvarianCancer which led to accelerated FDA approval.

Results from the Phase 1 FRAME trial, led by the Drug Development Unit across @icr.ac.uk and @royalmarsden.orga, were recently published in @natmed.nature.com

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4lW6k9A
July 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🚨 New cross-institutional study from researchers at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, @icr.ac.uk & @cruk-mi.bsky.social use microfluidic “vessel-on-chip” technology to reveal how circulating tumour cells release “shearosomes” and promote metastasis.

👉 bit.ly/3Ib6paq

#Cancer #ConvergenceScience
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🔬 Converging On Cancer: International Online Seminar

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn how convergence science, from molecular imaging to DNA repair, is advancing our understanding of cancer biology.

🗓 Thurs 3 July
🕙 10–11am BST (11–12 CEST, 5–6pm SGT)
🔗 Register to join bit.ly/44tB8bf
June 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🧫Our #organoid facility supports @icr.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social researchers with training & expert help. Even non-lab scientists, like surgical trainee Caoimhe Walsh, are using it to explore new tools for #cancer diagnosis
🔗 bit.ly/4leguSe
@hannagroupicl.bsky.social
#CancerResearch
June 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM