Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Raaj Praseedom, Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team.

Online - "meet.google.com/epi-proa-bxu":URL.

Thursday 16 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Viral Oncology

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

Online - "meet.google.com/tyd-okcn-wmr":URL.

Thursday 09 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The biology and fundamental management of colorectal cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Simon Buczacki, Dept Haematology (University of Cambridge).

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer: Part 1. Patient pathway and intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul -Clinical Consultant, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Dr Frank McCaughan-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow / Honorary Consultant,Department of Biochemistry School of Clinical Medicine .

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader, Department of Oncology..

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The promise of proton therapy in Paediatric tumours

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Online - Google Meet.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Artificial Intelligence for identifying novel therapeutic targets, biomarkers and drug repositioning opportunities

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Namshik Han, Head of Computational Biology, Milner Therapeutics Institute.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric Malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Amos Burke, Clinical Consultant - Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of kidney cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Grant Stewart, Cambridge University Hospitals.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 09:30-10:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

CANCELLED

Dr Sarah McClelland from Barts Cancer Institute in London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Paul Pharoah, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology .

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mathematical and evolutionary approaches to cancer

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme, Dept of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Online - Google Hangouts.

Thursday 09 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - “Cancer genomics: from chromatin structure to new therapeutic targets”

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

Professor Elisa Oricchio (EPFL, Zurich).

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer: demographics, presentation, diagnosis & patient pathway

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Richard Baird, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Biological and Clinical Features of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk susceptibility models and application to early detection

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Antonis Antoniou, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the early detection of cancer and novel interventions

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncological Imaging: introduction and non-radionuclide techniques & radionuclide techniques

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr. Ferdia Gallagher Department of Radiology & Dr Luigi Aloj, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The challenges in therapeutic targeting of the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway

Dr Simon Cook, Babraham Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The AKT inhibitor Capivasertib (AZD5363): From Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept

These talks are aimed at first year MRes/PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Barry Davies - Director, Clinical and Translational Scientific Alliances, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Immunotherapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christine Parkinson, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic anticancer therapy

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Gary Doherty (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Exploring the role of the tumour microenvironment: what do other cells do?

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Jacqui Shields - MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 December 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis’

Host: Grad Student Society -

Professor Dr Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frakfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer- NB 9am start time

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at Masters and first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Activation of transcription factor Nrf2 as a strategy to restore the cellular redox and protein homeostasis’

Host: Christian Frezza (CF366@hutchison-mrc.cam.ac.uk)

Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova,Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre, Division of Cellular Medicine, University of Dundee .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Treatment of cancer by inhibition of mtDNA gene expression’

Host: Christian Frezza - (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar)

Nils-Göran Larsson, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

Dr Matthew Murray - Academic Consultant Paediatric Oncologist.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 25 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raaj Praseedom - Consultant HPB-Transplant Surgeon, Lead clinician for the East of England Specialist HPB Specialist Multidisciplinary Team..

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 11 July 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine & EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combining omics data and biological knowledge to understand and treat cancer’

Host: Christian Frezza

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy Frankfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 01 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them. A basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Marc de la Roche, Lecturer - Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The childhood cancer genome

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sam Behjati - Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and WTSI.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Why Standard Naming and Pixel-based Contouring/Voluming are important to research in the radiation Oncology area’

Host: Dr Richard Benson (richard.benson@addenbrookes.nhs.uk)

Prof Andrew Miller, Radiation Oncologist, Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong, NSW Australia / Adjunct Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Wollongong .

Clinical School - Seminar room 10.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Next-Generation Biopsies in Gastrointestinal Cancers’

Host: Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald (cf208@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk)

Dr Nicola Valeri, Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain tumours: demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘New protagonists of the tumour microenvironment’

Host: Sujath Abbas - sa837@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk (Grad Student Society)

Dr Ilaria Malanchi, Tumour-Host Interaction Lab,Francis Crick Institute, London .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Mammary epithelial cell fate and tumour initiation at the single cell resolution’

Host: Rebecca Fitzgerald

Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 09 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The bone marrow microenvironment in myeloid malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, Diagnosis and Treatment Pathways in Haematological Malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Lecture Cancelled.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection; general principles and specific examples

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlie Massie, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Multi-dimensional cancer-immune cell interaction during metastasis’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

Xiang Zhang, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lecture Cancelled

Louisa Bellis (University of Cambridge).

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

THIS SEMIAR IS NOW CANCELLED - 'Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis'

Host: Graduate Student Society (Sujath Abbas)

Professor Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Executable Disease Networks: Reconstruction, Topology, Dynamics’

Host: Ben Hall

Anna Niarakis, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MicroRNAs as circulating biomarkers in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Matthew Murray, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Research frontiers and new therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Diagnostics and patient pathways in pancreatic cancer

Mr Raaj Praseedom, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 July 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Lung Cancer. Part 1. Patient pathway and Intervention. Part 2. Lung Cancer: Futurescape

*PLEASE NOTE 09.00 START TIME. These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Robert Rintoul, CUH and Papworth NHS Foundation Trusts, and Dr Frank McCaughan, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 05 July 2018, 09:00-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Colorectal cancer. Part 1. Presentation, Diagnosis and Intervention. Part 2. Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them - a basic research perspective

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Mr Simon Buczacki, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Marc de la Roche, Department of Biochemistry.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Nuclear Mechanopathology & Early Cancer Diagnostics’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman ((Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Professor GS Shivashankar, Deputy Director, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 15 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Amos Burke, Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cellular Plasticity in Cancer: driving force and therapeutic target’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk) Hutchison/MRC Seminar

Professor Thomas Brabletz, Department of Experimental Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuernberg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Florian Markowetz, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Accelerating the translation of mutational signatures'

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Translational Science: using biomarkers to guide clinical development in oncology

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Andy Pierce, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway of haematological malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer - demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Charlotte Coles, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Proton Beam Therapy: Current and Future Provision"

Host: Dr Gail Horan

Yen-Ching Chang, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, UCHL.

Cambridge Instute Lecture Theatre(CRUK) RobinsonWay Cambridge CB2 0RE.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

TALK CANCELLED Targets for drug discovery: from target validation to the clinic

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Smith, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging techniques and novel tools for early detection and intervention

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sarah Bohndiek and Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Instituting Molecular Precision in Localised Prostate Cancer - A Cure for All?’

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Rob Bristow, University Professor of Cancer Studies, Director of MCRC.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to early detection and tumour development

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Paul Pharoah and Dr Jamie Blundell, Early Detection Programme.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Oxidative Stress Defences in Cancer

Host: Prof Ashok Venkitaraman (Queries to: AC288@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk)

Professor Joan Brugge, Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Ludwig Centre at Harvard University.

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 14:30-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Tracking metabolic reprogramming in cancers with PI3K/Akt activation’

Host: Christian Frezza

George Poulogiannis, Team Leader, Division of Cancer Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 December 2017, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism - a hallmark of cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Metastasis latency: new molecular insights

Host: Sakari Vanharanta

Roger Gomis, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Bioloy.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘The role of Mre11 in DNA double strand break repair - myth and facts’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Shunichi Takeda, Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 18 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Satellite RNAs, Heterochromatin and Cancer: A Novel Mechanism of Induction of Breast Cancer by Loss of BRCA1?

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Inder Verma, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA .

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Monday 26 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Exploring and exploiting aberrant self-fate programs in leukemia’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Dr Johannes Zuber, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Analyses for Rule-Based Models of Cellular Signalling'

SPECIAL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Host by: Dr Ben Hall

Dr Jean Yang, Assistant Professor,Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Alterations of the Polycomb machinery in cancers’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Raphaël Margueron, Curie Institute, Paris.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Non-coding RNA - new roles for old players’

Host: Dr Carla Martins

Professor Anders Lund, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The interaction between tumor hypoxia and DNA methylation

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Dr Bernard Thienpont, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Impact of the Microbiome on cancer and its treatment

Host: Dr Pippa Corrie

Dr Trevor Lawley, Group Leader, Host-Microbiota Interactions Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Mechanisms of colon cancer initiation, progression and metastasis"

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Joerg Huelsken, Associate Professor, Debiopharm Chair in Signal Transduction in Oncogenesis, EPFL, Lausanne.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of lymphomagenesis: Developmental origins of a paediatric cancer

Host Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Common germline genetic variation and risk of cancer

Professor Paul Pharoah, Dept of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Computational Radiotherapy Symposium, 2016: personalised radiotherapy, or how computers can cure cancer

Organiser: Prof Neil Burnet (jms203@medschl.cam.ac.uk Tel: 01223768433)

Speakers as detailed in Symposium Programme.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 12:30-17:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Comparative aspects of canine cancer and therapy

Dr Jane Dobson, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Surgery and prostate cancer

Mr Adam Nelson, CRUK CI and Cambridge University Hospitals.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer immunotherapy

Dr Robert Wilkinson, MedImmune.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Future of medicines development: capabilities and how industry is evolving and interacting with academia and the NHS

Host: Dr Jean Abraham

Andrew Hughes, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine,The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of lung cancer

Dr Susan Harden, Cambridge University Hospitals.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Mechanisms of MYC-driven genome instability”

Host: Dr Anna Philpott

Jean Gautier, Professor of Genetic and Development, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York (USA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Treatment of pancreatic cancer

Professor Duncan Jodrell, CRUK CI and Cambridge University Hospitals.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Use of surgery in breast cancer treatment

Mr Parto Forouhi, Cambridge University Hospitals.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA damage repair

Dr Mark O'Connor, AstraZeneca.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer

Professor Carlos Caldas.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Why Determining Pathogenicity in the Age of Precision Medicine, will Require More than Analyzing Genomic Sequences”

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

Dr Bruce Gottlieb, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Department of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Prostate cancer

Dr Vincent Gnanapragasam.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“New Developments in Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer”

Host: Professor Fiona Gilbert

Professor Wim Oyen, Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, ICR, London.

Berridge Room, Department of Radiology, Level 5.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Innate Genetics and the Tumour Microenvironment Cooperate to Drive Prostate Cancer Aggression

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Prof Robert G Bristow, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Brain cancer

Professor Richard Gilbertson.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Ovarian cancer

Dr Christine Parkinson.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Leukaemia

Dr Brian Huntly.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metastasis

Dr Sakari Vanharanta.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oesophageal cancer

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Colorectal cancer and its management

Dr Simon Buczacki.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Reproducible Research

Florian Markowetz, CRUK CI.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 December 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Combine and conquer: critical pre-clinical and clinical aspects of targeted anti-cancer drugs’

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Udai Banerji, Drug Development Unit, ICR.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour natural history, structure and nomenclature

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Tumor-­induced reprogramming of hepatic metabolism disrupts anti‐tumor immunity”

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Tobias Janowitz, Department of Oncology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

This talk is postponed until Dec 16

Speaker to be confirmed.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of pancreatic cancer stem cells

Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

Professor Christopher Heeschen, Centre Lead, Centre for Stem Cells in Cancer and Ageing, Barts Cancer Institute, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of cancer theoretical framework

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour natural history, structure and nomenclature

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

This talk has been postponed

Speaker to be confirmed.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Melanoma and the translational cycle of innovation in cancer therapeutics

Host: Dr Pippa Corrie

Professor Grant McArthur, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Genomics of radiation responses and radiosensitivity

Host: Dr Ajithkumar

Professor Michael McKay, North Coast Cancer Institute, NSW, Australia.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - "Synergistic effect of radiotherapy and cis-platinum chemotherapy delivered via gold nanoparticles in glioblastoma multiforme"

CANCELLED

Dr Sara Piccirillo, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Alexandra Vaideanu, Deptatment of Engineering .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Novel dual-action combination therapy enhances angiogenesis whilst reducing tumour growth and spread’

Hosts: Jacqui Shields/Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre)

Professor Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Professor of Angiogenesis, Deputy Institute Director QMUL .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Interrogating the Architecture of Cancer Genomes

Host : Dr Bristi Basu

Dr Peter Campbell, Head of Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Harnessing hypoxia signalling in cancer'

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Professor Margaret Ashcroft, Cambridge Cardiovascular.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'ECM remodelling during cancer progression'

Hosts: Sakari Vanharanta and Jacqui Shields (Hutch)

Dr Janine Erler, Associate Professor - Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC),Copenhagen .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

DNA damage response: Mechanisms and relevance for cancer development and treatment

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar - Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

Professor Jiri Bartek, The Danish Cancer Society Research Center Genome Integrity Unit, Denmark.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Designing trials to find the right dose"

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Adrian Mander - Director of MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Cambridge.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Metastatic Stem Cells, TGF-beta signalling and poor-prognosis in CRC

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Eduard Batlle (Group Leader, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona).

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Defining treatment paradigms in prostate cancer; the UK as a dominant force - past, present, and future

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Professor Malcolm Mason, NCRI Prostate Cancer Clinical Studies Group and School of Medicine, Cardiff University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology

Paul Pharoah, CRUK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Systems Biology of Cancer

Host: Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Graduate Student Society

Professor Jussi Taipale, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

in vivo models

Please note: this talk takes place on WEDNESDAY!

Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic technologies

Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational Biology

This talk was postponed from February 5 2015

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

This lecture has been postponed. It will now take place on February 12 at 9:30.

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

MYC Oncoproteins act as Epigenetic Modifiers

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar - Host by: Dr Anna Philpott

Dr Frank Westermann, Research Group Neuroblastoma Genomics, DKFZ, Heidelberg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cells and cancer

Phil Jones, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Optimizing Image Guided Radiotherapy for Patient Benefit”

Host: Professor Neil Burnet

Dr Peter Remeijer, Medical Physicist NKI /Avl, Amsterdam.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Senescence, cell death and apoptosis

Masashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metastasis

Sakari Vanharanta, Department of Oncology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Explaining the reduction in ovarian cancer mortality 1977 to 2014

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

Dr Steven Narod, Director, Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit, Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Ovarian Cancer in Transition

Host: Dr Christine Parkinson

Mr Douglas Levine, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour Metabolism

Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncogenes and tumour suppressors (signalling and pathways)

Masashi Narita, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

In vivo function-based genomic approaches for cancer drug target discovery

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Professor Daniel Peeper, Head, Division of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transcription

Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Development and the cell cycle

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cell fate in response to anti-mitotic chemotherapeutics

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar (please note unusual date)

Professor Stephen Taylor, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Tracking genomic aberrations of the androgen receptor (AR) in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Gerhardt Attard, Royal Marsden Hospital, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genetic instability - observation and concepts

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Stratified Medicine in Cancer Therapy - a practical guide”

Host: Dr Nitzan Rosenfeld

Professor Gary Middleton, Professor in Medical Oncology, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of cancer theoretical framework

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The role of epigenetic regulators and their therapeutic targeting in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and haematological malignancies”

Host: Professor Duncan Jodrell

Dr Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour natural history, structure and nomenclature (lecture/demonstration)

Paul Edwards, Department of Pathology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Lung cancer, biomarkers and unanswered questions - a clinical translational perspective

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Dr Fiona Blackhall, Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Christie Hospital, Manchester .

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of stem cells in the pathogenesis of hepato-biliary cancers

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Professor Nisar Malek, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“CDD’s new Research Strategy”

Host: Professor Duncan Jodrell

Dr Nigel Blackburn, Director of Centre for Drug Development, Cancer Research UK.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Paradigm changes produced by targeted agents in Phase I trials in Oncology. Case studies of a TFbeta inhibitor and a Sonic Hedgehog inhibitor”

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Dr Jordi Rodon, Head of Research Unit for Molecular Therapy of Cancer Oncology Department. Vall D’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 09 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular hierarchies in normal and malignant epithelial tissue

CRUK CI open seminar

John Stingl, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 July 2014, 14:45-15:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Scottish Collaboration On Translational Research into Renal Cell Cancer (SCOTRRCC): a springboard for renal cancer biomarker development’.

Host: Professor Tim Eisen

Mr Grant Stewart, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Urological Surgery, University of Edinburgh .

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 22 July 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Noninvasive cancer genomics

CRUK CI seminar

Nitzan Rosenfeld, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:45-14:45

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epigenetics and microRNA

This talk has been rescheduled from earlier in the year

Eric Miska, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Precision Cancer Prevention: Trying to use Genomics to Save Lives

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

John Hopper, Professor & Director (Research), Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epidemiology

Paul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MRI and MRS in cancer research and treatment

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Breast Imaging research in Cambridge

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Professor Fiona Gilbert, Head of Department of Radiology, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Radiotherapy

Neil Burnet, Department of Oncology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Undermining Myc: Mitochondria Hold the Key

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Daniel Murphy, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metabolism, oxygen and cancer

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Drug discovery

Grahame McKenzie, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Personalised Cancer Medicine. How do we get there?

Host: Dr Jean Abraham

Dr Helena Earl, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"From trials evaluating drugs to trials evaluating treatment algorithms – Focus on the SHIVA trial"

Host: Dr Gill Barnett

Dr Christophe Le Tourneau, Medical Oncologist, Head of the Phase I Program at the Institut Curie, Paris, France,.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Therapeutics and clinical trials

Duncan Jodrell, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of RhoGTPases and the cytoskeleton in invading cancer cells by integrins and endocytic trafficking

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Patrick Caswell, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Signal transduction

Ian Mills, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Postponed to 22 May** Drug discovery

This talk has been postponed until 22 May

Grahame McKenzie, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Centrosome changes in cancer – causes and consequences

CRUK CI guest seminar

Monica Bettencourt Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 09 April 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting bioenergetics in hypoxic and rapidly growing tumours

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Jacques Pouysseggur, Institute of Research on Cancer and Ageing (IRCAN), Nice, France.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 08 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Postponed to 19 June** Epidemiology

Postponed to 19 June

Paul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 April 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Personalized Medicine in Oncology: The Dutch experience”

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Professor Jaap Verweij, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Weytemaweg 80, 3105 CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 01 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo models

Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic technologies

Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Solid vs. non-solid tumours

Please note change of room, we will meet external attendees in reception and accompany them to the seminar room.

Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

CRUK CI Room 215.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cell death and autophagy in response to inhibition of glycolysis

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Cristina Muñoz Pinedo, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

Please note change of room, we will meet external attendees in reception and accompany them to the seminar room.

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Room 215.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transcriptional regulation and techniques

Please note this talk is on a Wednesday

Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“What can we do to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for patients?”

Host: Dr Bristi Basu

Professor Chas Bountra, Head of Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine .

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Circulating DNA and diagnostics

Nitzan Rosenfeld, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Translating Tumour Metabolism into New Diagnostics and Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Professor Michael Lisanti, Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, University of Manchester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Personalized medicine initiative at Gustave Roussy

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Professor Jean-Charles SORIA - Chef de Service, Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Paris University XI and cancer specialist at Institut Gustave, Roussy..

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Chasing metabolic alterations in cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Arkaitz Carracedo, CIC bioGUNE, (Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences), Derio, Spain.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Prof Josep Tabernero, Head, Medical Oncology Department, Vall d' Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 17 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Metastasis

Gill Murphy, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 December 2013, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour metabolism

Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The autophagy signaling network in the coordination of a cell's response

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Francesco Cecconi, University of Tor Vergata, Italy .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Cambridge Breast Cancer Programme"

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Prof Carlos Caldas, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cells and cancer

Phil Jones, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to cancer in Cambridge (BP) followed by Cell cycle and checkpoints (AP)

Bruce Ponder and Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 09:30-10:30

MRC Cancer Unit Annual Lecture

The p53 pathway: 21 years of the "guardian of the genome"

Refreshments will be available after this talk outside the lecture theatre

Prof Sir David Lane, Chief Scientist, A*STAR, Singapore.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Monday 04 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED - Scottish Collaboration On Translational Research into Renal Cell Cancer, developing a systems medicine approach to personalised treatment

Mr Grant Stewart, Department of Urology and Edinburgh Urological Cancer Group,Western General Hospital. Edinburgh.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Development

Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Spotlight on Cambridge Clinical Trials; Presentations from the American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2013

Host: Dr Simon Pacey

Prof Tim Eisen, Dr Hugo Ford, Dr Pippa Corrie & Dr Kate Fife.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Target-Based Approach in Early-Phase Clinical Trials in Cancer

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Filip Janku, Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, (Phase I Clinical Trials Program), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 01 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Professor Charles Swanton, CRUK & UCL Trials Centre, UCL.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Advances in non-surgical treatment for cervix cancer

Dr Li Tee Tan, Addenbrooke's .

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Insights for the role of tumour-related inflammation and stem cells in Drosophila

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Marcos Vidal, Beatson Institute, Glasgow .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Risk and uncertainty in radiotherapy. Why I am the weakest link?

Dr Tom Roques, Lead of Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Team, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 16 July 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Genetic modifiers and microenvironmental control of tumor invasiveness

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar- Please note unusual time and 1:00pm start

Prof Douglas Hanahan, EPFL, Switzerland .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 02 July 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Image guidance – benefits and risks"

Professor Marcel van Herk, Imaging Physicist, Project Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Economics of Cancer Medicines

Professor Richard Sullivan, Guy's Hospital, London.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Control of cytokinesis and the dark side of actomyosin forces

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Mark Petronczki, London Research Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 June 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Renal Cancer and Oxygen Sensing"

Prof Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘CLL – from chemotherapy to targeted kinase inhibition’

Buffet Lunch will be provided by courtesy of Chugai Pharma UK Ltd.

Dr George Follows, Consultant Haematologist, Addenbrooke's .

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Macrophages Into Tumor Hypoxic Areas: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Massimiliano Mazzone, VIB Vesalius Research Center, Belgium.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“The identification of patients who benefit from targeted therapy in renal cancer”

(The lunch will be provided by courtesy of Pfizer)

Professor Thomas Powles, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Computational biology

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dr Fiona Blackhall, Manchester University, Manchester Cancer Research Centre Lung Group Lead.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Epigenetic cancer conspirators: DNA methylation, non-coding RNA and chromatin loops

This is an open seminar, all are welcome to attend

Adele Murrell, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 09:45-10:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Challenges in Implementing Personalized Cancer Medicine: the IGR experience

Professor Alexander Eggermont, Director General, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, France.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Telomeres and the challenges to chromosome integrity

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Julie Cooper, London Research Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Proteinases and Cancer

Gill Murphy, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cells and cancer

John Stingl, Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Estrogen receptor and its role in transcription and breast cancer

Jason Carroll, CRI.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Microtubules: boring polymers or the Achilles heel of cancer?

Fanni Gergely, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 December 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Localisation-based feedback controls during mitosis and the maintenance of chromosomal stability

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Adrian Saurin, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 04 December 2012, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Talk postponed** Introduction to statistics

**Talk postponed** Will be rescheduled next year

Sarah Vowler, CRI.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular responses to DNA damage: translating molecular insights towards new cancer therapies

Prof Steve Jackson, Head of Cancer Research UK Laboratories The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms of Estrogen Receptor Transcription in Breast Cancer

Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Towards personalized medicine in Breast Cancer"

Prof. Dr. Sabine C. Linn, medical oncologist Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

A systems view of the cancer cell: from missing genetic variability to combination therapy

Andrea Califano, Columbia University.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

A genomic Odyssey of predicting drug response: is Ulysses home yet?

Dr Federico Innocenti, UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Signalling Networks in Cell Proliferation and Fate Control

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Professor Sibylle Mittnacht, UCL Cancer Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Circulating Tumour Cells: Biomarker Utility and Insights to Metastasis'

Professor Caroline Dive, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 August 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Understanding Response & Resistance Mechanisms to Targeted Therapy

Note unusual day and time

Dr Keith Flaherty, Director of Developmental Therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cancer-related inflammation

Dr Thorsten Hagemann, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Pancreatic cancer: Genetic models to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies

Dr Dieter Saur, The Technical University of Munich.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Strategies to enhance effectiveness of Radiotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer"

Dr Thomas Brunner, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Investigating key effectors downstream of APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) deletion in vivo

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Owen Sansom, Beatson Institute, Glasgow.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

ALK Hunting in Colorado - new drugs for lung cancer's new diseases

Note unusual day and time

Dr Ross Camidge, University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) and the University of Colorado Cancer Center,.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Prof Richard Sullivan, Professor, Kings College London, Director, Centre for Global OncoPolicy & Health Kings Health Partners.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Always on guard: p53 dynamics in single living cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Alexander Loewer, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrueck Center, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 April 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Exploiting ASS1 deficiency in the treatment of mesothelioma"

Dr Peter Szlosarek, Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology, Barts and The London.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s.

Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:30-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Thalidomide and its analogues ; How molecules selected for anti-TNFa activity affect so many different pathways with direct binding with Cereblon mediating both anti proliferative and Immunomodulatory functions"

Individuals who are interested in meeting with any of the speakers should contact me asap. Thanks, Jonathan (jlh66@cam.ac.uk)

Jerome B. Zeldis CEO of Celgene Global Health & Angus Dalgleish, St George's Hospital London.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Clinical lectures on prostate, bladder, renal and testis cancer

David Neal, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Re Service Reforms in the new Commissioning Landscape"

Hannah Farrar, Director of Strategy and System Management, NHS, London.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"DICER1 and miRNA processing - a novel paradigm in cancer predisposition"

Dr Marc Tischkowitz, Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Functional breast cancer genomics: from basic biology to clinical application

**Talk postponed**

Carlos Caldas, CRI.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Myeloproliferative neoplasms – JAK/STAT signalling and stem cell subversion"

Prof Tony Green, University of Cambridge Department of Haematology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Imaging tumour responses to treatment

Kevin Brindle, Dept. Biochemistry and Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Radiotherapy toxicity, Radiogenomics and RAPPER"

Dr Gill Barnett, Dept. of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Transcriptional control of EMT and malignant tumor progression

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Gerhard Christofori, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

MRI and MRS in cancer research and cancer treatment

John Griffiths, Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Imaging Biomarkers in Cancer”

Prof. Fiona Gilbert, Dept. of Radiology.

Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7 of the CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy in breast cancer

Dr Alain Fourquet, Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Integration of Cell Growth and Cell Metabolism by Myc

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Martin Eilers, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, University of Würzburg, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 06 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer Therapeutics

Duncan Jodrell, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Barrett's oesophagus as a model for early cancer detection/treatment

Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cancer Gene Discovery in the Mouse

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr David Adams, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Genetic predisposition to cancer’

Prof Bruce Ponder, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Tumour-stroma Interactions in Breast Cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Clare Isacke, Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 04 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

DNA repair inhibitors in cancer treatment

Prof Hilary Calvert, UCL Cancer Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Haploid Genetic Screens in Human Cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC LMB.

Tuesday 06 September 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The ATM-mediated DNA damage response: moving between the forest and the trees

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Yossi Shiloh, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 28 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Viral and host contributions to cervical carcinogenesis’

Dr Nick Coleman, Department of Pathology & Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Advances in Head and Neck Radiotherapy"

Dr Chris Nutting, Royal Marsden Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Developing Medicines for Pancreatic Cancer"

Dr Dave Tuveson, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

SOCCAR trial: an update

Dr Joe Maguire, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genomic Imprinting and Cancer

Adele Murrell, CRUK Cancer Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“What lessons can we learn from transcriptional evolution in cancer research?”

Dr Duncan Odom, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Prof. Roy Rampling, University of Glasgow and The Beatson Cancer Centre, Glasgow.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Multi-site post-translational modification as a quantitative regulator of transcriptional output during neurogenesis"

Dr Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Sibylle Mittnacht, The Institute of Cancer Research.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Signal transduction and membrane trafficking

Ian Mills, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 April 2011, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Somatic Genetics of Human Cancer - Moving Towards Large Scale Resequencing of Cancer Genomes"

Dr Andy Futreal, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Cambridge breast cancer program- recent progress"

Dr Carlos Caldas, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"FGF-2, S6 Kinase 2 and Chemo-resistance in Lung Cancer"

Prof. Michael Seckl, Imperial College, London and Charing Cross Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mesothelioma: a disease of our time

Dr David Gilligan, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Targetting pre-neoplasia in the bronchus"

Dr Robert Rintoul, Papworth Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Application of Systems Biology Approaches to Study Cell Signalling and Transcription

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Prof Mike White, University of Liverpool.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Control of DNA Replication

Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Leukaemia stem cells: how normal stem cell function is subverted in haematological malignancies"

Dr Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systems approaches to understanding transcriptional regulation

Duncan Odom, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Breast MRI by the Shutter-Speed Method: Elimination of Unnecessary Breast Biopsies"

Dr Charles S. Springer, Jr., Advanced Imaging Research Centre. Oregon Health & Science University.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

RCC Cinderella comes of age

Prof. Tim Eisen, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge & Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 December 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Neuroblastoma- Disordered Developmental Programs Contribute to Tumorigenesis

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar- Please note change to regular time and date

Prof Carol Thiele, National Cancer Institute, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Susceptibility to Cancer - What's New?"

Prof Doug Easton, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour suppressors mechanisms and cellular senescence

Masashi Narita, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting NG2 Cells in Glioblastoma

Dr Colin Watts, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Oncogenes and Tumour Suppressors 1 & 2

Note extended session - finish time 11 am

Ashok Venkitaraman & Dave Tuveson; Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 09:30-11:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Chromosome Translocations and Tumour Suppressors in Breast Cancer"

Dr Paul Edwards, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Brain Metastases – a cross cutting theme: Review of the Brain Metastasis Service and Future Research Potential"

Dr Sarah Jefferies, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Imaging Tumour Cell Death"

Prof. Kevin Brindle, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“EGFR Mutation Screening in NSCLC”

Dr David Gonzalez de Castro, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Pathway Analysis of Glioblastoma Tissue After Preoperative Treatment with the EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Gefitinib – A Phase “0 Trial”

Dr Monika Hegi, University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Interactions of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibition with DNA damage in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer

Prof Daniel Hochhauser, University College London.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Unravelling cancer cell signalling networks and screening for novel drug targets

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Daniel Peeper, The Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 07 September 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Breast Radiotherapy - Past, Present and Future"

Dr Charlotte Coles, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Gastro Intestinal Stroma Tumours (GISTS)"

Dr Ramesh Bulusu, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Dynamic Notch signaling in neural progenitor cells

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Ryoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 15 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

New approaches to the clinical management of cervical cancer

Nick Coleman, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"A New Window of Opportunity in Prostate Cancer"

Dr Danish Mazhar, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Talk Cancelled

Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances, apologies for the inconvenience

Guillermo de la Cueva Mendez, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Cancer Cell Unit..

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Stem cell identity and mRNA export: unexpected roles of geminin and GANP"

Prof. Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Cellular Senescence as a Tumour Suppressor Mechanism, Particular Focus will be on the Autophagy/mTOR Pathway"

Dr Masashi Narita, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Mechanisms regulating neural differentiation

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Kate Storey, University of Dundee.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Radiotherapy in the management of cancer

Neil Burnet, Department of Oncology and Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Macromolecular interactions in the control of chromosome instability”

Prof. Ashok Venkitaramann, (Hutchison-MRC Research Centre).

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cell fate

Phil Jones, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The NCAG Report: Delivering a World Class Chemotherapy Service

Prof Roger James, Previously: • Deputy Medical Director Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust • Medical Director Kent & Medway Cancer Network.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 April 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Brain Cancer"

Prof. John Griffiths, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Deciphering the Mammary Epithelial Cell Hierarchy

Dr John Stingl, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Fine Scale Mapping of Breast Cancer Loci found via GWAS - searching for the Causative Variants"

Dr Alison Dunning, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The Role of the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Antagonist, Lrig1, in Normal Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Kim Jensen, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine and Department of Oncology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dr Alison Dunning, Strangeways Research Laboratory & Dept. of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The prognostic significance of subtypes of breast cancer classified using immunohistochemistry

Dr Paul Pharoah, Strangeways Research Laboratory/Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Why computational biology is useful in the cancer world

Simon Tavaré, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

High-throughput Cancer Cell line Screens: Linking Drug Response to Molecular Signatures

Dr Ultan McDermott, Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Can we age in utero? Can we kill cancer cells by making them replicate faster? And other ATR stories…

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

HPV vaccines - will they do their job?

Prof. Margaret Stanley, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Investigating the interaction of Radiotherapy & Temozolomidefor Glioblastoma

Dr Raj Jena, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

PREDICT: A NEW UK PROGNOSTIC MODE THAT PREDICTS SURVIVAL FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR INVASIVE BREAST CANCER (GC Wishart, EM Azzato, PDP Pharoah, DC Greenberg, J Rashbass, O Kearins, G Lawrence, C Caldas C, PM Ravdin)

Prof. Gordon Wishart, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The new LAW of microRNA-mediated gene silencing: implications for lung cancer development

Dr Tyson V. Sharp, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 December 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Cellular senescence: molecular mechanisms and implications for cancer and aging

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Peter Adams, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cell Signalling

Ermanno Gherardi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“Intensity modulated radiotherapy for children’s tumours and estimation of the carcinogenic risk”

Dr Michael Williams & Dr Gail Horan, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"The Arguments for and against Sentinel Node Biopsy (SNB) in Melanoma"

Prof. J Meirion Thomas, Royal Marsden Hospital & Imperial College, London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The irreversibility of cell cycle transitions: why the clock never turns back

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Frank Uhlmann, CRUK London Research Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Steroid Hormone Receptors in Prostate Cancer: A Hard Habit to Break?

Dr Gerhardt Attard, The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Phospholipase and lysophospholipase D signalling in cancer"

Prof. Michael Wakelam, Institute Director, The Babraham Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Immunostimulatory antibodies in cancer treatment"

Prof. Peter Johnson, Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Southampton.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Molecular Mechanisms of Cellular Senescence in Cancer and Ageing

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, IFORM-IEO, Milan.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Clinical Aspects of Proton Radiotherapy

Prof Tony Lomax, Head of Medical Physics, Centre for Proton Radiation Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 15 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Adoptive T Cell Therapy of Cancer

Cassian Yee, Fred Hutchinson Research Center, Seattle.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Prospective translational research in clinical trials

Helena Earl, Department of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 July 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Genome scans in breast and prostate cancer - what have we learned & where next?

Doug Easton, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Germ Cell Tumours (GCTs) of Young People: Clinical and Biological Approaches

James Nicholson and Matthew Murray, Paediatrics, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 23 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Is brain cancer a stem cell disease?

Colin Watts, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 16 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Translational imaging studies in ovarian cancer

James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Evis Sala, Department of Radiology.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

A model for all genomes: the role of RNA polymerases fixed in factories

Peter Cook, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 02 June 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Using genetics to personalize melanoma therapy

Keiran Smalley, Moffitt Cancer Center.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Common germline variation and colorectal cancer

Richard Hubner, Royal Marsden Hospital.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Inherited susceptibility to cancer

Bruce Ponder, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Assessing responses to cancer therapy using molecular imaging magnetic resonance methods

Kevin Brindle and John Griffiths, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Taming the tiger by the tail: modulation of DNA damage responses by telomeres

David Lydall, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

OPCML in Tumour Gene Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

Hani Gabra, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Stem cells and cancer (epithelial cancers)

Fiona Watt, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Preservation of fertility in patients with cancer

Raj Mathur (Addenbrooke's Hospital) and Tom Mathews (Medical Director, Bourn Hall).

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Connecting Lung Epithelial Stem Cells and Lung Cancer by Stress-Activated Protein Kinases

Juan Jose Ventura, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 07 April 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Analysis of early events after DNA damage in living cells; the HP1 paradigm

Anand Jeyasekharan, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 31 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

What comes after cancer stem cells?

Doug Winton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Outreach chemotherapy programme

Pippa Corrie, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Intestinal cancer models and stem cell biology

Doug Winton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Radiation-induced bowel damage: let's put right what is wrong

Jervoise Andreyev, Royal Marsden Hospital.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The spatial organisation of Ras signaling

Philippe Bastiaens, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Genetic association studies to find common disease susceptibility alleles

Alison Dunning, Strangeways Research Laboratories.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of cyclin-kinase inhibitors in the development of cancer

Nisar Malek, Hannover Medical School, Germany.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Clinical potential of functional ion channel expression in cancer

Mustafa Djamgoz, Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Role of the c-Myc-target gene Misu (NSun2) in regulating epidermal stem cell fate and its implications for cancer

Michaela Frye, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Sarcomas and the insulin-like growth factor pathway

Robert Maki, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Research Center.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The evidence for lifestyle after cancer to reduce relapse and survival

Robert Thomas, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues

Professor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, Cambridge University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 06 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

This talk has now been postponed until next year

Rebecca Fitzgerald, Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Research Laboratory.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 09 December 2008, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour suppressors 1 and 2

Ashok Venkitaraman & Dave Tuveson; Hutchison/MRC Research Centre & Cambridge Research Institute.

Room 009, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Delineating the Fanconi Anaemia DNA repair defect

KJ Patel, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, CIMR, Level 7.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of developmental biology in cancer research

Anna Philpott and Shin-ichi Ohnuma, Department of Oncology, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Colorectal neoplasia: what we know and don't know about genes and environment

John Potter, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The Editorial Process Demystified

Note unusual time and venue

Andrew Sugden, International Managing Editor, Science Magazine.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The West Anglia CLRN, TCRNs and the Coordinated System for gaining NHS Permission – How is it all going to work?

Lena Pettersson, Lead RM and G Manager, West Anglia NIHR CLRN.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Mechanisms of DNA replication

Nick Robinson, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison/MRC Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

The role of Fam38 in integrin activation and lung cancer

Tariq Sethi, Chair of Respiratory and Lung Cancer Biology, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

High-throughput cancer cell line screening: a tool for discovery

Ultan McDermott, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 14 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Richard Benson, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 30 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Nick Carroll, Department of Radiology.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Early phase clinical trials in Cambridge

Duncan Jodrell, Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Oncology.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 16 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Special seminar: Analysing the dynamic glycome

Please note that this lecture is on a Wednesday at the CRI.

Lara Mahal, University of Texas, Austin.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 03 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Chromatin modifying enzymes: their function and role in cancer

Tony Kouzarides, WT/CRUK Gurdon Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 02 September 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

Gill Murphy, CRI and Charles Wilson, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 24 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Using Bayesian analysis in randomised phase II clinical trials to determine the worth of proceeding to phase III

Cindy Billingham, University of Birmingham.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 17 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Mechanisms of tamoxifen action and resistance' and 'Cambridge Oncology - Past, Present & Future: A tour from the 18th to 21st Century'

Jason Carroll, CRI and David Gilligan, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Taming Glioblastoma -Targeting Angiogenesis (CRI Special Seminar)

Dr Steve Brem, Moffitt Cancer Center.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 09 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Trials and Tribulations in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer

Sarah Jefferies, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

Phil Jones, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre and Kate Fife, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

TBC

Adele Murrell, CRUK Cancer Research Institute and TBC.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting Hyperactive Ras and Uncovering Mechanisms of Therapeutic Resistance in Genetically Engineered Mice

Kevin Shannon, University of California San Francisco.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Chromosome translocations and gene fusions in breast cancer and Improving outcomes in melanoma: a fresh look

Paul Edwards (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre) and Pippa Corrie (Addenbrooke's Hosptial, Clinical Oncologist, Lung and Upper GI Cancer).

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 22 April 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Hugo Ford, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Breast Cancer Heterogeneity and the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis

John Stingl, Cambridge Research Institute.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 08 April 2008, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ermanno Gherardi (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) and Helena Earl (Medical Oncologist; Sarcoma, breast and ovarian cancer), Addenbrooke's Hospital).

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 25 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Monitoring anticancer drug uptake by magnetic imaging and spectroscopy' and 'Breast cancer heterogeneity- a clinical challenge'

John Griffiths (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute) and Carlos Caldas (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute).

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 18 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Paul Pharoah (Strangeways Research Laboratories) and Rajesh Jena (Addenbrooke's Hospital)).

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Experimental manipulation of the epidermis to study normal and cancer stem cells and The GIST of GISTS (Gastrointestinal Stromal tumours)

Fiona Watt, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Ramesh Bulusu, Clinical Oncologist (Lung/Upper GI/Lymphoma), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Stefanie Reichelt (CR UK Cambridge Research Institute) and Sara Booth (Palliative Care), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Imaging biology in the cancer patient (K. Brindle)

Kevin Brindle (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry) and Athar Ahmad (Medical Oncologist, Colorectal Tumours), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Ubiquitin / proteasome mediated protein degradation

Laura Itzhaki, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, MRC-Hutchison Research Centre.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Computational biology and cancer: the CRI perspective" and "Lung Cancer: A New Strategy"

Simon Tavaré, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Tim Eisen, Medical Oncologist (Lung and Renal cancer), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Acute Myeloid Leukaemia: Molecular Pathogenesis, Prognostication and Targeted therapy (Brian Huntly)

Brian Huntly (Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute of Medical Research) & Charles Crawley (Oncology Department, Addenbrookes Hospital).

Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Beyond VEGF: vascular signaling targets for therapeutic manipulation

David Quinn, University of Southern California.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 December 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Searching for and confirming common breast cancer risk alleles (Dunning) Update on Diet and Breast Cancer (Bingham)

Alison Dunning & Sheila Bingham, Department of Oncology & MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Progress in prostate cancer and the androgen receptor

David Neal and Ian Mills, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Margaret Stanley, Department of Pathology.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"High throughput mapping of cis-regulatory DNA elements: From genomic arrays to functional biology" (George Follows) & "Rapid evolutionary turnover of transcription factor binding" (Duncan Odom)

George Follows (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) and Duncan Odom (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Gain-of-function JAK2 mutations in the human myeloproliferative disorders

Linda Scott (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Proteins that license DNA replication (Laskey) Clinical exploitation of proteins that license DNA replication (Coleman)

Ron Laskey and Nick Coleman (Hutchison-MRC Research Centre).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 09 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

David Baulcombe, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 18 September 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Molecular genetics of MALT lymphoma: application in diagnosis and prognosis (Prof Ming Du), tbc (Prof Robert Marcus)

Robert Marcus (Addenbrooke's Hospital) and Ming Du (University of Cambridge Department of Pathology).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 11 September 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

"Targeting the Met receptor for cancer therapy" (Ermanno Gherardi) and "Preclinical efforts in Pancreatic Cancer" (Dave Tuveson)

Ermanno Gherardi (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) and Dave Tuveson (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute).

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Targeting RET kinase activity as a novel therapeutic strategy for medullary thyroid carcinoma

Francesca Carlomagno, University of Naples.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 17 July 2007, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to chemotherapy: role of Kaplan Meier curves in clinical cancer research

Luke Hughes-Davies, Department of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 July 2007, 09:30-10:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Chromatin modifying enzymes and their involvement in cancer

Luke Hughes-Davies, Department of Oncology.

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 June 2007, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Developments in radiotherapy: new treatments for today and tomorrow

Neil Burnet, Deptartment of Oncology.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Exploiting senescence and anoikis in function-based oncogenomic screens

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman

Daniel Peeper, Netherlands Cancer Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 19 June 2007, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A tool of developmental biology for understanding tumorigenesis

Shin-ichi Ohnuma, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Dept of Oncology..

CRI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Towards a fuller understanding of inherited susceptibility to colorectal cancer

Richard Houlston, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Novel mechanisms of clinical drug resistance in ovarian cancer

James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Molecular heterogeneity of breast cancer - biological and clinical implications

Carlos Caldas, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Experimental cancer medicine at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Lee Nadler, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Germline genetic predictors of prognosis in breast cancer

Paul Pharoah, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratories.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Dimethyl sulfoxide to vorinostat-targeted histone deacetylase inhibitor – mechanisms of action as an anti-cancer drug

Paul Marks, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

RNAi Functional Analysis of Drug Resistance Pathways

Charlie Swanton, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 24 April 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Michael Wakelam, Babraham Institute.

The Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 17 April 2007, 12:00-13:00