Ute Jungwirth
@utejungwirth.bsky.social
Group leader (AssocProf/SL) in Cancer Drug Discovery🔬part of CRUK Newcastle Drug Discovery Group @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social Cancer Research Horizons [ https://t.ly/AAaA7 ], Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, fascinated in the tumour microenvironment
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Ute Jungwirth
@utejungwirth.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Follow our group also on @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
🎓 We have a fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab and the Newcastle Cancer Drug Discovery Group to explore how oncogene-driven replication stress fuels Squamous Cell Carcinomas—and how to target it. #CancerResearch #PhD
📅 Apply by: 4 Dec 2025
🔗 Apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 Apply by: 4 Dec 2025
🔗 Apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting oncogene-induced replication stress in squamous cell carcinoma at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Targeting oncogene-induced replication stress in squamous cell carcinoma at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🎓 We have a fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab and the Newcastle Cancer Drug Discovery Group to explore how oncogene-driven replication stress fuels Squamous Cell Carcinomas—and how to target it. #CancerResearch #PhD
📅 Apply by: 4 Dec 2025
🔗 Apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 Apply by: 4 Dec 2025
🔗 Apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Celebrating #WorldCancerResearchDay with a book & bake sale for CRUK!
Great turnout from across labs — including our Drug Discovery group.
Love seeing science come together for a cause that drives our work.
🔬 #CancerResearch #CRUK #NUCentreForCancer #CancerDrugDiscovery #KeepScienceCurious
Great turnout from across labs — including our Drug Discovery group.
Love seeing science come together for a cause that drives our work.
🔬 #CancerResearch #CRUK #NUCentreForCancer #CancerDrugDiscovery #KeepScienceCurious
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Celebrating #WorldCancerResearchDay with a book & bake sale for CRUK!
Great turnout from across labs — including our Drug Discovery group.
Love seeing science come together for a cause that drives our work.
🔬 #CancerResearch #CRUK #NUCentreForCancer #CancerDrugDiscovery #KeepScienceCurious
Great turnout from across labs — including our Drug Discovery group.
Love seeing science come together for a cause that drives our work.
🔬 #CancerResearch #CRUK #NUCentreForCancer #CancerDrugDiscovery #KeepScienceCurious
Huge thanks to Caterina Missero for the invitation to Naples and the CEINGE Research Centre! It was a pleasure to talk about our research on cSCC, fibroblasts & senescence. Fantastic to get to know everyone—great discussions, ideas, and scientific exchange. Looking forward to staying in touch!
April 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Huge thanks to Caterina Missero for the invitation to Naples and the CEINGE Research Centre! It was a pleasure to talk about our research on cSCC, fibroblasts & senescence. Fantastic to get to know everyone—great discussions, ideas, and scientific exchange. Looking forward to staying in touch!
Wishing everyone a fantastic day at our @mosmedcdt.bsky.social PhD conference!
We're at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social for Day 1 of the @mosmedcdt.bsky.social Conference! Looking forward to two days of insightful talks and discussions - especially from Drug Discovery researchers - highlighting the breadth of ongoing research across the programme.
#mosmed25
#mosmed25
April 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Wishing everyone a fantastic day at our @mosmedcdt.bsky.social PhD conference!
Happy International Women's Day! May you all have a fantastic year ahead of you! #Rights #Equality #Empowerment
March 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happy International Women's Day! May you all have a fantastic year ahead of you! #Rights #Equality #Empowerment
Thanks to @walkolab.bsky.social for visiting @newcastleuni.bsky.social and sharing their insights into the interactome of YAP/TAZ.
It was a pleasure hosting @walkolab.bsky.social from the Bart's Centre for Squamous Cancer in our NUCoRE Cancer seminar series this week where he told us about his exciting research on transcriptional addiction.
February 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thanks to @walkolab.bsky.social for visiting @newcastleuni.bsky.social and sharing their insights into the interactome of YAP/TAZ.
A year ago I started working with this fantastic group of women in @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social. It is a privilege to be part of such a hard working, dedicated and inspiring team. #Empower&Inspire #WomenInScience @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nucancer.bsky.social
🌍👩🔬 Celebrating International Women in Science Day! Thank you to all the women in our drug discovery team, their dedication, innovation and inspiration. Together we are pushing boundaries to discover novel anticancer drugs! @nucancer.bsky.social @crhorizons.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A year ago I started working with this fantastic group of women in @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social. It is a privilege to be part of such a hard working, dedicated and inspiring team. #Empower&Inspire #WomenInScience @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nucancer.bsky.social
Today is #WorldCancerDay
A day to raise awareness for patients and families affected by cancer, but also a day to celebrate and support the scientists & researchers who study cancer and develop novel anticancer therapies
@nucancer.bsky.social @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
A day to raise awareness for patients and families affected by cancer, but also a day to celebrate and support the scientists & researchers who study cancer and develop novel anticancer therapies
@nucancer.bsky.social @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
In the UK, nearly 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime. It's World Cancer Day today – a global day to raise awareness and take action against cancer 🌍
Whatever your cancer experience, share this post and help us get the word out.
#WorldCancerDay #WCD2025
Whatever your cancer experience, share this post and help us get the word out.
#WorldCancerDay #WCD2025
February 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today is #WorldCancerDay
A day to raise awareness for patients and families affected by cancer, but also a day to celebrate and support the scientists & researchers who study cancer and develop novel anticancer therapies
@nucancer.bsky.social @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
A day to raise awareness for patients and families affected by cancer, but also a day to celebrate and support the scientists & researchers who study cancer and develop novel anticancer therapies
@nucancer.bsky.social @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
Reposted by Ute Jungwirth
We have a #PhDstudentship starting in Sept with me and @hannahstewart92.bsky.social ideal for candidates with interest in research in #medicinalchemistry and #organicsynthesis
Contact us for more details but apply through the university portal, details in the link: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Contact us for more details but apply through the university portal, details in the link: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
January 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We have a #PhDstudentship starting in Sept with me and @hannahstewart92.bsky.social ideal for candidates with interest in research in #medicinalchemistry and #organicsynthesis
Contact us for more details but apply through the university portal, details in the link: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Contact us for more details but apply through the university portal, details in the link: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Reposted by Ute Jungwirth
Read about our potential breakthrough in oncology - restoring wild type p53 function with ASTX295. This molecule was co-developed with Astex Pharmaceuticals, and is currently showing great phase I trial readout! #cancer #medchem #clinicaltrials
www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer...
www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer...
Cancer Research Horizons on LinkedIn: #onmyhorizon #cancerresearch
2024 milestones worth celebrating 🧬🌟
Bravo to the incredible researchers at the Drug Discovery Unit at Newcastle University. They've unlocked a potential…
www.linkedin.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Read about our potential breakthrough in oncology - restoring wild type p53 function with ASTX295. This molecule was co-developed with Astex Pharmaceuticals, and is currently showing great phase I trial readout! #cancer #medchem #clinicaltrials
www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer...
www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer...
Great work from our collaborators @walkolab.bsky.social elucidating the functional interplay of YAP and RIF1 in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. #cancerresearch #skincancer
December 24, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Great work from our collaborators @walkolab.bsky.social elucidating the functional interplay of YAP and RIF1 in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. #cancerresearch #skincancer
Reposted by Ute Jungwirth
Our research is critically dependent on funding we receive from @cancerresearchuk.org and we are also willing to do our bit towards fundraising. In 2024:
Funds Raised: £6,440 (+£1,031 gift aid)
Online Donations: 283
Events: Great North Run, Race for Life, Shine Walk, Leeds Marathon, bake sale, quiz
Funds Raised: £6,440 (+£1,031 gift aid)
Online Donations: 283
Events: Great North Run, Race for Life, Shine Walk, Leeds Marathon, bake sale, quiz
December 19, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Our research is critically dependent on funding we receive from @cancerresearchuk.org and we are also willing to do our bit towards fundraising. In 2024:
Funds Raised: £6,440 (+£1,031 gift aid)
Online Donations: 283
Events: Great North Run, Race for Life, Shine Walk, Leeds Marathon, bake sale, quiz
Funds Raised: £6,440 (+£1,031 gift aid)
Online Donations: 283
Events: Great North Run, Race for Life, Shine Walk, Leeds Marathon, bake sale, quiz
Last outing of my Bath lab together with the Walko lab in 2024. 🎄 🥳 Wishing everyone a relaxing break!
@walkolab.bsky.social
@walkolab.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Last outing of my Bath lab together with the Walko lab in 2024. 🎄 🥳 Wishing everyone a relaxing break!
@walkolab.bsky.social
@walkolab.bsky.social
Exciting collaboration from our @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social team
@newcastleuni.bsky.social, @crhorizons.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to accelerate hit discovery with structure-based drug design. Big shout out to our structural biology team led by Jane Endicott & Martin Noble!🙌
@newcastleuni.bsky.social, @crhorizons.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to accelerate hit discovery with structure-based drug design. Big shout out to our structural biology team led by Jane Endicott & Martin Noble!🙌
Thrilled to share the new collaboration between @diamondlightsource.bsky.social + @crhorizons.bsky.social + @newcastleuni.bsky.social to accelerate structure-based drug development via fragment screening! More here: bit.ly/4g7Et3f 🧬🧶 #chemsky #chembio We're already hard at work on exciting targets 💪
Cancer Research Horizons and Diamond Light Source establish drug discovery partnership
Cancer Research Horizons is partnering with Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, to build a world-leading fragment-based drug discovery programme.
bit.ly
December 13, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Exciting collaboration from our @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social team
@newcastleuni.bsky.social, @crhorizons.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to accelerate hit discovery with structure-based drug design. Big shout out to our structural biology team led by Jane Endicott & Martin Noble!🙌
@newcastleuni.bsky.social, @crhorizons.bsky.social and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to accelerate hit discovery with structure-based drug design. Big shout out to our structural biology team led by Jane Endicott & Martin Noble!🙌
PhD student Ioanna Kontou is presenting her work on how DNA damaging agents impact fibroblasts and consequently promote cSCC at this year's "Skin @Bath" conference @uniofbath.bsky.social @walkolab.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 4:09 PM
PhD student Ioanna Kontou is presenting her work on how DNA damaging agents impact fibroblasts and consequently promote cSCC at this year's "Skin @Bath" conference @uniofbath.bsky.social @walkolab.bsky.social
Had a fantastic time at the BACR breast cancer conference, meeting friends and collaborators, and presenting work from former PhD @emilylay.bsky.social #cancerresearch #fibroblasts
@utejungwirth.bsky.social and Kleopatra Papa spoke at this week's BACR New Developments in #BreastCancer Research conference, highlighting their work on the effect of chemotherapy on cancer associated fibroblasts and drug resistance 🧫 @nucancer.bsky.social @crhorizons.bsky.social #cancer #cansky
November 28, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Had a fantastic time at the BACR breast cancer conference, meeting friends and collaborators, and presenting work from former PhD @emilylay.bsky.social #cancerresearch #fibroblasts
Follow our group also on @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Follow our group also on @nudrugdiscovery.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
We are a team of medicinal chemists, pharmacologists & cancer and structural biologists based at Newcastle University, part of Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social & the Newcastle University Centre for Cance @nucancer.bsky.social
Reposted by Ute Jungwirth
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November 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Thinking of applying to Newcastle for postgraduate study? See details below of an upcoming Postgraduate Virtual
Open Day on Wed 27th Nov: www.ncl.ac.uk/study/meet/p...
Open Day on Wed 27th Nov: www.ncl.ac.uk/study/meet/p...
Our Newcastle University Centre for Cancer has its own account @nucancer.bsky.social Follow us to hear from our 100+ cancer researchers & how they translate their research into the clinic. For example our Drug Discovery group developed the clinically approved Rucaparib (PARPi) & Erdafitinib (FGFRi)
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Our Newcastle University Centre for Cancer has its own account @nucancer.bsky.social Follow us to hear from our 100+ cancer researchers & how they translate their research into the clinic. For example our Drug Discovery group developed the clinically approved Rucaparib (PARPi) & Erdafitinib (FGFRi)
Love the hashtag #KeepScienceCurious from
@helloeacr.bsky.social
Such an important message to drive innovation in cancer drug discovery and cancer research.
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
@helloeacr.bsky.social
Such an important message to drive innovation in cancer drug discovery and cancer research.
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) on LinkedIn: #worldscienceday #keepresearchcurious #cancerresearch
This #WorldScienceDay we're celebrating the crucial role of cancer researchers' curiosity in driving life-saving developments 🤩🙌…
www.linkedin.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Love the hashtag #KeepScienceCurious from
@helloeacr.bsky.social
Such an important message to drive innovation in cancer drug discovery and cancer research.
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
@helloeacr.bsky.social
Such an important message to drive innovation in cancer drug discovery and cancer research.
www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...
In October I walked together with colleagues the #NightShineWalk in support of @cancerresearchuk.bsky.social to raise vital funds for cancer research 💙🩵💜 Such a great experience! Thanks to those who supported our fundraising.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/newcast...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/newcast...
November 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
In October I walked together with colleagues the #NightShineWalk in support of @cancerresearchuk.bsky.social to raise vital funds for cancer research 💙🩵💜 Such a great experience! Thanks to those who supported our fundraising.
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/newcast...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/newcast...
Our methods chapter on cell-derived extracellular matrix and its tumor cell interactions published in Methods in Molecular Biology - Imaging Cell Signaling this year
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Generation of 3D Fibroblast-Derived Extracellular Matrix and Analysis of Tumor Cell-Matrix Interactions and Signaling
Fibroblasts are the major producers of the extracellular matrix and regulate its organization. Aberrant signaling in diseases such as fibrosis and cancer can impact the deposition of the matrix protei...
link.springer.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Our methods chapter on cell-derived extracellular matrix and its tumor cell interactions published in Methods in Molecular Biology - Imaging Cell Signaling this year
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Great way to find your cancer research community again.
Inspired by the other amazing starter packs - here's one for cancer researchers!
I tried to make this broad - from immunology to genomics to cell biology and so much more..
This list also includes organizations & institutes supporting cancer researchers 🧪🔬⚕️🩺
Hope its useful!
go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc
I tried to make this broad - from immunology to genomics to cell biology and so much more..
This list also includes organizations & institutes supporting cancer researchers 🧪🔬⚕️🩺
Hope its useful!
go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc
November 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Great way to find your cancer research community again.
Congratulations to Clare Isacke for being awarded Women in Science for 2024 by the Metastasis Research Society! Well deserved!
December 14, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Congratulations to Clare Isacke for being awarded Women in Science for 2024 by the Metastasis Research Society! Well deserved!