💡 ecDNA Conference
🗓️ 11–13 June 2025
📍 London, UK
🚨 Register by Monday 5th May (3 days left!!)

The full programme for our conference on ecDNA is now confirmed!

You can view all the details and register here:
www.cancergrandchallenges.org/ecDNA-2025

What a masterful #AACR25 Plenary talk by Paul Mischel @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, #CancerGrandChallenges team eDyNAmiC lead) on the role of extrachromosomal DNAs (#ecDNAs) in cancer. As a funder, it’s incredible to see what we've enabled — in front of 21,000 cancer research leaders!

🌟 Hello from #AACR25 🌟

At @cancergrand.bsky.social, we're uniting the world's brightest minds to tackle cancer's toughest challenges. Applications are now open to take on our newest set of challenges, with awards of up to £20m available.

Come by booth 2327 to learn more 💭
We're about to open!

Would it even be #AACR25 without the mandatory photo at their "selfie 🤳 station"???

Oh and @cancergrand.bsky.social even got a mention, as Nicola is part of our PROSPECT team, tackling the early onset cancers challenge, specifically Colorectal cancer #crc, led by @yincaoscd.bsky.social and Andy Chan !!

The #AACR25 Discovery Sciences Plenaries, discussed interplay of somatic mutations in normal tissue (@imartincorena.bsky.social), metabolism targeting of liver cancer (Celeste Simon), epigenetic therapies (Yang Shi), and the microbiome (PROSPECT's Nicola Sagata)

Fantastic science at #AACR25 yesterday! So inspiring to see @cancergrand.bsky.social Challenges like extrachromosomal DNAs #ecDNAs 🧬⭕ (team eDyNAmiC!) and transposable elements 🦘🧬 (key for the Dark Proteome!) highlighted in the 🎓educational sessions. Really cool science being discussed 🔬!

#AACR25 has officially started! I presented at the Professional Development Session "Grant Writing Workshop", sharing UK🇬🇧 & European🇪🇺 funding opportunities in #CancerResearch, and spotlighting our 7 #CancerGrandChallenges. @theaacr.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

New Challenges just announced!! £20m per international team!
-The dark proteome
-Mechanisms driving mutational signatures
-AI-human collaborations in cancer
-Cancer avoidance
-The nervous system and cancer
-Rewiring cancer cells
-TME dynamics

More info: www.cancergrandchallenges.org/new-challeng...

⏳ 14 MARCH ABSTRACT DEADLINE ⏳
🚨 2 weeks!
If you'd like the opportunity to present your work alongside this 👇 stellar line-up of researchers at our ecDNA conference, ensure you submit your abstract by 14 March.

Learn more: bit.ly/ecDNAConfere...

Very excited to share the stellar speaker line-up at our ecDNA conference this June in London! 👇
If you're interested in #ecDNA and want to hear or present groundbreaking research, register now. Abstract submission deadline is 14 March.

Learn more: www.cancergrandchallenges.org/ecDNA-2025

Congratulations Miguel @brancolab.bsky.social on your fantastic inaugural lecture as Professor of Genome Regulation @qmul.ac.uk "On the Versatility of Genomes". What a trip down memory lane from the good old days of me being your first postdoc working on #retroelements! Congratulations!!