Françoise Howe
@francoiseshowe.bsky.social
Coordinating research into cancer precision prevention and early detection at the University of Oxford. #oxcode
Former yeast molecular geneticist. Views my own.
Former yeast molecular geneticist. Views my own.
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What if we could stop #Cancer before it even starts?
Prof. Sarah Blagden @oncology.ox.ac.uk & PPI contributor Anna Fry discuss novel cancer prevention research on the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social podcast.
🎧 www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/cou...
@sarahblagden.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Prof. Sarah Blagden @oncology.ox.ac.uk & PPI contributor Anna Fry discuss novel cancer prevention research on the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social podcast.
🎧 www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/cou...
@sarahblagden.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What if we could stop #Cancer before it even starts?
Prof. Sarah Blagden @oncology.ox.ac.uk & PPI contributor Anna Fry discuss novel cancer prevention research on the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social podcast.
🎧 www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/cou...
@sarahblagden.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Prof. Sarah Blagden @oncology.ox.ac.uk & PPI contributor Anna Fry discuss novel cancer prevention research on the @oxfordsparks.bsky.social podcast.
🎧 www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/cou...
@sarahblagden.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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🚨Government ministers are visiting Oxford this morning to announce £120m funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers. New stations will be built at Cowley and Littlemore, with a journey time of just 7 minutes into Oxford. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...
Full steam ahead for Cowley Branch Line
Direct trains will run from Cowley and Littlemore to Oxford and London Marylebone, as the Government today announces £120m of funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers.
The funds will pa...
oxfordclarion.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
🚨Government ministers are visiting Oxford this morning to announce £120m funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers. New stations will be built at Cowley and Littlemore, with a journey time of just 7 minutes into Oxford. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...
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New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer.
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Job Details
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October 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New CRUK Post-doc position in our group. #mutationalorder #multiomics #cancer.
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We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer-research-uk-science-and-innovation_crukfunded-discoveryresearch-cancerresearch-activity-7368945889794633728-3yLM?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=AC...
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September 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
We're humbled to have been awarded a CRUK Programme Foundation Award to further progress our work on mutational order in cancer. New post-doctoral positions in our group to be advertised shortly. @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
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Join our healthy volunteer blood donation campaign!
We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford!
Find out more ⬇️
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...
We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford!
Find out more ⬇️
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...
Join our Healthy Volunteer Blood Donation Campaign!
Oxford Cancer is inviting volunteers from the University to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Join our healthy volunteer blood donation campaign!
We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford!
Find out more ⬇️
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...
We're inviting healthy volunteers to provide a small blood sample to the INTEGRATOR Research Tissue Bank.
By taking part, you'll directly contribute to advancing cancer research in Oxford!
Find out more ⬇️
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/join-ou...
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽
📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci...
🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM
🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci...
🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM
🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
August 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽
📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci...
🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM
🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci...
🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM
🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
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Thrilled that our paper is in print @science.org!!
*Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA*
Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight
*Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA*
Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Thrilled that our paper is in print @science.org!!
*Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA*
Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight
*Platelets sequester cell free DNA, including free fetal and tumour-derived DNA*
Tweetorial from @l-cmurphy.bsky.social below. Check out the news feature science.org/content/arti... and terrific editorial from Dennis Lo #platelets_in_the_limelight
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Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway!
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
Find out more on our website. 👇
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
Find out more on our website. 👇
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...
Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Advance Your Research with the SCAN Pathway!
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
Find out more on our website. 👇
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...
The SCAN pathway offers a unique opportunity to access one of the UK’s most comprehensive research infrastructures for non-specific cancer symptoms.
Find out more on our website. 👇
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/advance...
Great to see our work on preventive cancer vaccines, including LungVax, featured in this issue!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social
Progress in the fight against the disease has been slow, steady—and remarkable. Long may that continue
The world is winning the war on cancer
Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further
econ.st
July 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Great to see our work on preventive cancer vaccines, including LungVax, featured in this issue!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @sarahblagden.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social
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The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc!
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientist - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
The MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) is a biomedical research institute where scientists and clinicians collaborate to advance the understanding of biology and its application to medicine. LMS...
lms.mrc.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Chromatin And Development lab are hiring a postdoc!
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Come join us; we are a happy and hard working team @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London UK. Projects span the intersection of chromatin and transposon biology in dev't and disease. Email/DM for more info. Pls RT!
lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
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Congrats to our 2025 OxCODE travel awardees, who are attending this week's Cancer Prevention Research Conference! @cancerresearchuk.org
Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...
Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...
OxCODE travel awards 2025
Congratulations to Zinaida Dedeic, Joshua Fieggen, Ella Mi, Shizhe Xu, Yuhan Zheng and Noushin Zibandeh who have been awarded OxCODE funds to attend this year’s major cancer prevention and early detec...
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk
June 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Congrats to our 2025 OxCODE travel awardees, who are attending this week's Cancer Prevention Research Conference! @cancerresearchuk.org
Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...
Read more about them and the award, which aims to raise the profile of early detection and precision prevention research ⬇️
www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcode-...
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I’m here at the 2025 Cancer Prevention conference in London! 🎉
I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social
@cancerresearchuk.org
I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social
@cancerresearchuk.org
June 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I’m here at the 2025 Cancer Prevention conference in London! 🎉
I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social
@cancerresearchuk.org
I’m grateful to the OxCODE for the Travel Award that made this opportunity possible. Huge thanks for supporting early-career researchers like me! Come check out my poster #93!
@oxfordcancer.bsky.social
@cancerresearchuk.org
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Looking for support between a doctorate and applying for post-doctoral funding? Our post-doctoral awards are now open for applications! oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/training-hub... Closing date: 2 July. @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Post-Doctoral Awards | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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June 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Looking for support between a doctorate and applying for post-doctoral funding? Our post-doctoral awards are now open for applications! oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/training-hub... Closing date: 2 July. @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming event, 'Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine', taking place @stannescollege.bsky.social on Monday 30th June at 4pm. Further details and registration can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/thinki...
June 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming event, 'Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine', taking place @stannescollege.bsky.social on Monday 30th June at 4pm. Further details and registration can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/thinki...
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A new travel planning website for journeys in and around Oxford has launched. Oxford Travel Options www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk is created by Low Carbon Oxford North and the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership (ZCOP). It shows transport options and tools for transport beyond the private car.
Oxford Travel Options | Smarter Ways to Travel Around Oxford
Discover alternative travel solutions for Oxford and the surrounding area, from bus routes and bike paths to lift shares and route planning.
www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A new travel planning website for journeys in and around Oxford has launched. Oxford Travel Options www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk is created by Low Carbon Oxford North and the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership (ZCOP). It shows transport options and tools for transport beyond the private car.
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Another postdoc position working ongside the wider #MuSpAn community is currently open - this time working with Prof Jens Rittscher and others at the intersection of colorectal cancer, machine learning, spatial statistics, and mathematical modelling.
Apply before 30th June!
tinyurl.com/3ht3rh3h
Apply before 30th June!
tinyurl.com/3ht3rh3h
Job Details
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May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Another postdoc position working ongside the wider #MuSpAn community is currently open - this time working with Prof Jens Rittscher and others at the intersection of colorectal cancer, machine learning, spatial statistics, and mathematical modelling.
Apply before 30th June!
tinyurl.com/3ht3rh3h
Apply before 30th June!
tinyurl.com/3ht3rh3h
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It's our Health Research Showcase in two days! Come along to the Westgate in Oxford to find out about the latest in healthcare research oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/he... @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxahpartners.bsky.social @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's our Health Research Showcase in two days! Come along to the Westgate in Oxford to find out about the latest in healthcare research oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/he... @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxahpartners.bsky.social @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social
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Join us next week to hear Sarah Blagden and team discuss the possibilities and potential barriers associated with recruiting to vaccine trials and eventually rolling out new preventive cancer vaccines!
Full details below ⬇️
Full details below ⬇️
We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
May 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Join us next week to hear Sarah Blagden and team discuss the possibilities and potential barriers associated with recruiting to vaccine trials and eventually rolling out new preventive cancer vaccines!
Full details below ⬇️
Full details below ⬇️
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We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
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🚨 New transatlantic research funding! 🚨
We've partnered with the American Cancer Society to co-fund our Biology to Prevention Award, doubling the funding pot for collaborative UK and US prevention research teams.
Join us for a webinar on 21 May to find out how to apply: bit.ly/445v4pO
We've partnered with the American Cancer Society to co-fund our Biology to Prevention Award, doubling the funding pot for collaborative UK and US prevention research teams.
Join us for a webinar on 21 May to find out how to apply: bit.ly/445v4pO
Webinar: Biology to Prevention Award co-funded with American Cancer Society
Join our webinar on 21 May to learn about this new partnership and how to apply for co-funding through the Biology to Prevention Award
bit.ly
May 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 New transatlantic research funding! 🚨
We've partnered with the American Cancer Society to co-fund our Biology to Prevention Award, doubling the funding pot for collaborative UK and US prevention research teams.
Join us for a webinar on 21 May to find out how to apply: bit.ly/445v4pO
We've partnered with the American Cancer Society to co-fund our Biology to Prevention Award, doubling the funding pot for collaborative UK and US prevention research teams.
Join us for a webinar on 21 May to find out how to apply: bit.ly/445v4pO
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Join our Prevention Primer to grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org and the American Cancer Society's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social and @wtklab.bsky.social plus lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists. bit.ly/3EKgzNN
UCL Event Ticketing
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April 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join our Prevention Primer to grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org and the American Cancer Society's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social and @wtklab.bsky.social plus lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists. bit.ly/3EKgzNN
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Postdoc position now open for applications! Want to come to Oxford and work on epigenetics of myeloid leukaemia? Interested in liquid biopsy for cancer early detection? Apply here: cutt.cx/bskaml1
Please RT!
#job #academia
Please RT!
#job #academia
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Genomics of Myeloid Disorders at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Genomics of Myeloid Disorders is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportun...
cutt.cx
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Postdoc position now open for applications! Want to come to Oxford and work on epigenetics of myeloid leukaemia? Interested in liquid biopsy for cancer early detection? Apply here: cutt.cx/bskaml1
Please RT!
#job #academia
Please RT!
#job #academia
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Calling all Medical Undergraduates! 📢
Don't forget: applications for our DPhil in Cancer Science Scheme will close this Friday 25th April. 🥼
We also have 3 2025 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available. 📚
Apply via our study pages ⬇️. @medsci.ox.ac.uk
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...
Don't forget: applications for our DPhil in Cancer Science Scheme will close this Friday 25th April. 🥼
We also have 3 2025 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available. 📚
Apply via our study pages ⬇️. @medsci.ox.ac.uk
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...
DPhil in Cancer Science
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April 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Calling all Medical Undergraduates! 📢
Don't forget: applications for our DPhil in Cancer Science Scheme will close this Friday 25th April. 🥼
We also have 3 2025 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available. 📚
Apply via our study pages ⬇️. @medsci.ox.ac.uk
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...
Don't forget: applications for our DPhil in Cancer Science Scheme will close this Friday 25th April. 🥼
We also have 3 2025 GSK-Oxford DPhil studentships available. 📚
Apply via our study pages ⬇️. @medsci.ox.ac.uk
www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/study#how-to...
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Join our Prevention Primer on 24 June and grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social, @wtklab.bsky.social and others, inc lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists.
bit.ly
April 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Join our Prevention Primer on 24 June and grow your knowledge ahead of @cancerresearchuk.org's #PrevConf25. Hear from Prof Peter Sasieni, @sarahblagden.bsky.social, @wtklab.bsky.social and others, inc lab scientists, clinicians, behavioural scientists and epidemiologists.
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We are recruiting!! Ads now live for a Data Coordinator and 2 Research Assistants/biobankers to join a new @ludwigcancer.bsky.social - @imm.ox.ac.uk joint initiative to prevent progression from early- to advanced blood cancer. Joint posts with Adam Mead+others in Oxford Ludwig. Links below
March 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We are recruiting!! Ads now live for a Data Coordinator and 2 Research Assistants/biobankers to join a new @ludwigcancer.bsky.social - @imm.ox.ac.uk joint initiative to prevent progression from early- to advanced blood cancer. Joint posts with Adam Mead+others in Oxford Ludwig. Links below