Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute
@cruk-si.bsky.social
Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (formerly the CRUK Beatson Institute). Our Mission: Cancer discovery for patient benefit.
www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk
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📢 Applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland are now open!
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
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Read the newly published impact report from the SPECIFICANCER team that reshaped our understanding of tissue specificity.
Thanks to our co-funders, @themarkfdn.bsky.social, for supporting the #CancerGrandChallenges team and global science.
🔗 lnkd.in/eDrQ9guu
Thanks to our co-funders, @themarkfdn.bsky.social, for supporting the #CancerGrandChallenges team and global science.
🔗 lnkd.in/eDrQ9guu
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Read the newly published impact report from the SPECIFICANCER team that reshaped our understanding of tissue specificity.
Thanks to our co-funders, @themarkfdn.bsky.social, for supporting the #CancerGrandChallenges team and global science.
🔗 lnkd.in/eDrQ9guu
Thanks to our co-funders, @themarkfdn.bsky.social, for supporting the #CancerGrandChallenges team and global science.
🔗 lnkd.in/eDrQ9guu
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Liver lobule zone molecular characteristics dictate susceptibility to WNT-driven liver cancer
📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Liver lobule zone molecular characteristics dictate susceptibility to WNT-driven liver cancer
📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
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The new paper from SPECIFICANCER, published in
@natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears.
Congratulations to the team (co-funded by
@themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6
@natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears.
Congratulations to the team (co-funded by
@themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The new paper from SPECIFICANCER, published in
@natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears.
Congratulations to the team (co-funded by
@themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6
@natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears.
Congratulations to the team (co-funded by
@themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6
⌛Just one week left to submit your applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland!
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
⌛Just one week left to submit your applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland!
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Less than 3 weeks left to submit an abstract to the PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026 in Glasgow
Categories:
CLINICAL STUDIES&PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS&THERAPIES
RISK&RESPONSE
Submit abstracts online eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
Categories:
CLINICAL STUDIES&PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS&THERAPIES
RISK&RESPONSE
Submit abstracts online eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Less than 3 weeks left to submit an abstract to the PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026 in Glasgow
Categories:
CLINICAL STUDIES&PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS&THERAPIES
RISK&RESPONSE
Submit abstracts online eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
Categories:
CLINICAL STUDIES&PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS&THERAPIES
RISK&RESPONSE
Submit abstracts online eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
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Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask?
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Functionally dominant hotspot mutations of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes in cancer
Nature Genetics - Analysis of 14,106 tumor genomes highlights recurrent mutations in mitochondrial ribosomal RNA encoded within the mitochondrial genome. Mutations occur at hotspot positions and...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask?
rdcu.be/eN1jm
rdcu.be/eN1jm
📢 Applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland are now open!
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📢 Applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland are now open!
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD.
👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
🩷Thanks to everyone from @cruk-si.bsky.social and @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social who took part in our #WearItPink day today raising money for @breastcancernow.bsky.social 🩷
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🩷Thanks to everyone from @cruk-si.bsky.social and @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social who took part in our #WearItPink day today raising money for @breastcancernow.bsky.social 🩷
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👏 Congrats to Ridvan Nepravishta and Kenneth Cameron at @cruk-si.bsky.social on their paper in #JACS:
Fast and reliable NMR-based fragment scoring for drug discovery bit.ly/43LfgYa
#OnMyHorizon
@pubs.acs.org @csic.es @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rnepravishta.bsky.social @angulo-lab.bsky.social
Fast and reliable NMR-based fragment scoring for drug discovery bit.ly/43LfgYa
#OnMyHorizon
@pubs.acs.org @csic.es @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rnepravishta.bsky.social @angulo-lab.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
👏 Congrats to Ridvan Nepravishta and Kenneth Cameron at @cruk-si.bsky.social on their paper in #JACS:
Fast and reliable NMR-based fragment scoring for drug discovery bit.ly/43LfgYa
#OnMyHorizon
@pubs.acs.org @csic.es @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rnepravishta.bsky.social @angulo-lab.bsky.social
Fast and reliable NMR-based fragment scoring for drug discovery bit.ly/43LfgYa
#OnMyHorizon
@pubs.acs.org @csic.es @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rnepravishta.bsky.social @angulo-lab.bsky.social
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Undergraduates, we are recruiting! Come and join us at the @cruk-si.bsky.social in Glasgow for your industrial placement year. Start date September 2026. Great lab, great people, great city. Take a look!
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Biosciences Student Placement (Lab based)
Cancer Research Horizons Biosciences Student Placement (Lab based) £23,000 plus benefits Directorate: Research & Innovation Contract: Fixed Term Contract 52 weeks Hours: Full time 35 hours per wee...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Undergraduates, we are recruiting! Come and join us at the @cruk-si.bsky.social in Glasgow for your industrial placement year. Start date September 2026. Great lab, great people, great city. Take a look!
cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Are you interested in becoming a clinical academic leader in a cancer-focused discipline? @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, @uofglasgow.bsky.social, @cruk-si.bsky.social & Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre are seeking four ambitious people for the TRACC+ Programme August 2026 intake 👉 edin.ac/4nGK5oC
September 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Are you interested in becoming a clinical academic leader in a cancer-focused discipline? @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, @uofglasgow.bsky.social, @cruk-si.bsky.social & Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre are seeking four ambitious people for the TRACC+ Programme August 2026 intake 👉 edin.ac/4nGK5oC
🎉Good news! The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended!
You now have until Friday 3 October to submit your abstract for the @cruk-si.bsky.social Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
You now have until Friday 3 October to submit your abstract for the @cruk-si.bsky.social Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
September 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎉Good news! The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended!
You now have until Friday 3 October to submit your abstract for the @cruk-si.bsky.social Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
You now have until Friday 3 October to submit your abstract for the @cruk-si.bsky.social Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
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Last session in full swing! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
September 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Last session in full swing! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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Our first session of today's #OrganoidsAreUs2025 is dedicated to organoid models in cancer research.
We go with
✨ Vincenzo Corbo
✨ Ben Dwyer
✨ Maximilian Reichert
✨ Chiara Braconi
Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!
We go with
✨ Vincenzo Corbo
✨ Ben Dwyer
✨ Maximilian Reichert
✨ Chiara Braconi
Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our first session of today's #OrganoidsAreUs2025 is dedicated to organoid models in cancer research.
We go with
✨ Vincenzo Corbo
✨ Ben Dwyer
✨ Maximilian Reichert
✨ Chiara Braconi
Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!
We go with
✨ Vincenzo Corbo
✨ Ben Dwyer
✨ Maximilian Reichert
✨ Chiara Braconi
Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!
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Exciting news - we are recruiting new Group Leaders! 🥼
We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes
Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes
Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
Group Leader Recruitment at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
YouTube video by CRUK Manchester Institute
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September 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Exciting news - we are recruiting new Group Leaders! 🥼
We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes
Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes
Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
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Second session on #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. We start with
🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and
🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social ,
✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch
#OrganoidsAreUs2025
🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and
🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social ,
✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch
#OrganoidsAreUs2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Second session on #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. We start with
🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and
🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social ,
✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch
#OrganoidsAreUs2025
🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and
🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social ,
✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch
#OrganoidsAreUs2025
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A day dedicated to #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. 1st session sponsored by TECAN with Nick Barker from A*STAR, Amian Barai from @univ-amu.fr and our first Tony Burgess Orator, Vivian Li from @crick.ac.uk, providing a fascinating insight into this fast-developing area #OrganoidsAreUs2025
September 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A day dedicated to #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. 1st session sponsored by TECAN with Nick Barker from A*STAR, Amian Barai from @univ-amu.fr and our first Tony Burgess Orator, Vivian Li from @crick.ac.uk, providing a fascinating insight into this fast-developing area #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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Opening session sponsored by @stemcell.com and OLS with a welcome from Director Owen Sansom @cruk-si.bsky.social and Elizabeth Vincan @unimelb.bsky.social . Our plenary speaker Prof Hans Clevers from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social talks about human epithelial organoids. #OrganoidsAreUs2025
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Opening session sponsored by @stemcell.com and OLS with a welcome from Director Owen Sansom @cruk-si.bsky.social and Elizabeth Vincan @unimelb.bsky.social . Our plenary speaker Prof Hans Clevers from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social talks about human epithelial organoids. #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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We are ready to go at the CRUK Scotland Institute, @cruk-si.bsky.social, for this exciting meeting, bringing together a huge wealth of new technologies and scientific advances. First session this afternoon. Watch this space! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
September 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We are ready to go at the CRUK Scotland Institute, @cruk-si.bsky.social, for this exciting meeting, bringing together a huge wealth of new technologies and scientific advances. First session this afternoon. Watch this space! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026
📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
Abstract categories
CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS & THERAPIES
RISK & RESPONSE
Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025
#Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
Abstract categories
CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS & THERAPIES
RISK & RESPONSE
Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025
#Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
September 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026
📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
Abstract categories
CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS & THERAPIES
RISK & RESPONSE
Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025
#Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
Abstract categories
CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE
TARGETS
MODELS & THERAPIES
RISK & RESPONSE
Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025
#Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
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🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment
📍 University of Glasgow
👇 Learn more
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📍 University of Glasgow
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Glasgow Cancer Scientist Awarded Prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation
Alexander Raven, an early career researcher from the School of Cancer Sciences, has been awarded one of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) flagship Future Leaders Fellowships.
glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment
📍 University of Glasgow
👇 Learn more
glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...
📍 University of Glasgow
👇 Learn more
glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...
🔬Join us for our upcoming Cancer Immunology Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
📅23-24 October 2025
📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow
Abstract deadline: 26 September
Register by: 10 October
crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...
📅23-24 October 2025
📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow
Abstract deadline: 26 September
Register by: 10 October
crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🔬Join us for our upcoming Cancer Immunology Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
📅23-24 October 2025
📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow
Abstract deadline: 26 September
Register by: 10 October
crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...
📅23-24 October 2025
📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow
Abstract deadline: 26 September
Register by: 10 October
crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...
📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities?
Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader!
👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou...
📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader!
👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou...
📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
September 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities?
Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader!
👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou...
📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader!
👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou...
📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
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We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social
We are delighted to be offering summer placements in 2026 with #In2research
Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September
👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf
Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September
👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf
2025/26 In2research Participant Information Sessions
Are you interested in doing a PhD but aren’t sure how to get there? Then get In2research!
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September 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are delighted to be offering summer placements in 2026 with #In2research
Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September
👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf
Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September
👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf