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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (formerly the CRUK Beatson Institute). Our Mission: Cancer discovery for patient benefit. www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk

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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
⌛️There is still time to register for #BICC2026 "From Tumour Genesis to Metastasis: an immune perspective" Don't miss out on the chance to hear from our fantastic speakers, including keynotes from Frances Balkwill, John Wherry and Karin de Visser! www.beatsonconference.org/
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hooke Medal winner Stephen Tait @mitosrus.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social is presented with his medal by BSCB president Laura Machesky before his fantastic medal talk on 'mitochondria, death and something in between' #DynamicCellVI
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🆕Paper from Naomi van den Berg (@naomiirisvdberg.bsky.social) in Cancer Cell proposes the "immunometabolic gatekeeping" framework to explain how tissue metabolism conditions tumour immunity @crick.ac.uk @cruk-mi.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @cp-cancercell.bsky.social
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Immunometabolic gatekeeping: How tissue metabolism conditions tumor immunity
Why the link between immune infiltration and tumor control varies so strongly across tissues remains unresolved. We propose the “immunometabolic gatekeeping” framework, whereby tissue-intrinsic metabo...
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🚨Don't miss out! Early bird registration for #BICC2026 closes 1 April (10am BST) Join global leaders in cancer immunology in Glasgow this June 📍 @cruk-si.bsky.social, Glasgow | 📅 22-25 June #CancerResearch #Immunology 👇Register now👇
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Beatson International Cancer Conference 2026
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
📣Register now for the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2026 ‘From Tumour Genesis to Metastasis: an immune perspective’ 📅22-25 June 2026 📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow 🎟️Early Bird registration closes on 1 April 🔗 www.beatsonconference.org #BICC2026 #CancerResearch #Immunology
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our Best Models Working Group can offer advice on the use of a range of model systems. The next in our series of #MeetTheExpert posts features Laura Greaves, whose group investigates the role of age-related mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer biology nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/working-grou...
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
MAPK-driven epithelial cell plasticity underlies colorectal cancer therapeutic resistance: Members of our Cancer Cluster contributed to a recent paper that provides insight into resistance to therapy and suggests strategies that may improve therapeutic efficacy nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/mapk-dr...
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MAPK-driven epithelial cell plasticity underlies CRC therapeutic resistance | National Mouse Genetics Network
(White et al., Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute and collaborators across the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network – Cancer Cluster) Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a genetically complex disease, yet re...
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Alice Wicks @ubch-alice.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My first-author paper is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org from my time in Professor Danny Huang’s laboratory @cruk-si.bsky.social. We showed that CBL can be used as a degrader E3 to target the “undruggable” eIF4E. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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CBL ubiquitin ligase targets translation as a degrader E3
Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules that recruit an ubiquitin ligase (E3) and a neo-substrate into a ternary complex, enabling selective protein degradation. Desp...
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We are delighted to announce that @mitosrus.bsky.social from @cruk-si.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk has been awarded the 2026 Hooke Medal You can read about Stephen's work on mitochondria, cell death and cancer here: bscb.org/hooke-medal-...
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📣Research from Owen Sansom's group @cruk-si.bsky.social has suggested a new way to tackle liver and bowel cancers 📖Read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientists discover potential new treatment to tackle cancer
The research focused on the genetic faults that allow the disease to hijack a signalling system in the body.
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🆕Paper in @natgenet.nature.com from Georgios Kanellos in Owen Sansom's lab: Nucleophosmin supports WNT-driven hyperproliferation and tumor initiation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nucleophosmin supports WNT-driven hyperproliferation and tumor initiation - Nature Genetics
Npm1 promotes tumor formation via attenuating the integrated stress response and p53 activation in mouse WNT-driven intestinal and liver tumorigenesis.
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Fiona MacLeod @fionamacleod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Bowel cancer is increasingly diagnosed in young people in Scotland - but what are we doing? Hear about our heroes in lab coats who are seeking answers, Dr Santi Susanti and Dr Johan Vande Voorde👇🥼 @cruk-si.bsky.social @johanvandevoorde.bsky.social @uofgnews.bsky.social youtu.be/if0VzNmlnx8?...
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Scotland Tonight Dr Susanti and Dr Johan Vande Voorde on early on set bowel cancer.
YouTube video by Fiona MacLeod
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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Read the newly published impact report from the SPECIFICANCER team that reshaped our understanding of tissue specificity. Thanks to our co-funders, @themarkfdn.bsky.social, for supporting the #CancerGrandChallenges team and global science. 🔗 lnkd.in/eDrQ9guu
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Liver lobule zone molecular characteristics dictate susceptibility to WNT-driven liver cancer 📷 Alexander Raven et al @cruk-si.bsky.social in @nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The new paper from SPECIFICANCER, published in @natureportfolio.nature.com reveals that it’s not just the mutation that matters — it’s where in the liver that mutation appears. Congratulations to the team (co-funded by @themarkfdn.bsky.social). 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/eTVh9YY6
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
⌛Just one week left to submit your applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland!
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PhD Studentships
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PREDICT-Meso @predict-meso.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Less than 3 weeks left to submit an abstract to the PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026 in Glasgow Categories: CLINICAL STUDIES&PATIENT CARE TARGETS MODELS&THERAPIES RISK&RESPONSE Submit abstracts online eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
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Payam Gammage @mito-oncogene.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with the @edreznik.bsky.social lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social, where we describe functionally dominant mitochondrial DNA mutations in patient tumors. So, what is functional dominance in mitochondrial genetics, I hear you ask? rdcu.be/eN1jm
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Functionally dominant hotspot mutations of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes in cancer
Nature Genetics - Analysis of 14,106 tumor genomes highlights recurrent mutations in mitochondrial ribosomal RNA encoded within the mitochondrial genome. Mutations occur at hotspot positions and...
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📢 Applications for the Black Leaders in Cancer PhD programme in Scotland are now open! The programme offers a unique opportunity for students from Black heritage backgrounds to pursue a fully funded 4-year PhD. 👉Apply by 24 November 2025: www.crukscotlandcentre.ac.uk/training/phd-studentships
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🩷Thanks to everyone from @cruk-si.bsky.social and @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social who took part in our #WearItPink day today raising money for @breastcancernow.bsky.social 🩷
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Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
👏 Congrats to Ridvan Nepravishta and Kenneth Cameron at @cruk-si.bsky.social on their paper in #JACS: Fast and reliable NMR-based fragment scoring for drug discovery bit.ly/43LfgYa #OnMyHorizon @pubs.acs.org @csic.es @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rnepravishta.bsky.social @angulo-lab.bsky.social
Two scientists in white coats and safety specs smile in front of a large machine labelled 'keNMR'
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Sebastian Greenhough @sebgreenhough.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Undergraduates, we are recruiting! Come and join us at the @cruk-si.bsky.social in Glasgow for your industrial placement year. Start date September 2026. Great lab, great people, great city. Take a look! cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Biosciences Student Placement (Lab based)
Cancer Research Horizons Biosciences Student Placement (Lab based) £23,000 plus benefits Directorate: Research & Innovation Contract: Fixed Term Contract 52 weeks Hours: Full time 35 hours per wee...
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Institute of Genetics and Cancer @uoe-igc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Are you interested in becoming a clinical academic leader in a cancer-focused discipline? @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, @uofglasgow.bsky.social, @cruk-si.bsky.social & Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre are seeking four ambitious people for the TRACC+ Programme August 2026 intake 👉 edin.ac/4nGK5oC
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🎉Good news! The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended! You now have until Friday 3 October to submit your abstract for the @cruk-si.bsky.social Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics'
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Lessons from the microbes within us; developing next generation immunotherapeutics
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Last session in full swing! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Our first session of today's #OrganoidsAreUs2025 is dedicated to organoid models in cancer research. We go with ✨ Vincenzo Corbo ✨ Ben Dwyer ✨ Maximilian Reichert ✨ Chiara Braconi Another packed session for a critical and fast-developing field!
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Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute @cruk-mi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exciting news - we are recruiting new Group Leaders! 🥼 We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
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Group Leader Recruitment at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Second session on #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. We start with 🧪 Phil Jones from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social 🧪 Followed by Suet Yu Leung from Hong Kong Uni and 🧪 Eleanor Earp from @edinburghuni.bsky.social , ✨ First keynote lecture by Helmuth Gehart from @ethz.ch #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A day dedicated to #StemCells #regeneration and #cancer. 1st session sponsored by TECAN with Nick Barker from A*STAR, Amian Barai from @univ-amu.fr and our first Tony Burgess Orator, Vivian Li from @crick.ac.uk, providing a fascinating insight into this fast-developing area #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Opening session sponsored by @stemcell.com and OLS with a welcome from Director Owen Sansom @cruk-si.bsky.social and Elizabeth Vincan @unimelb.bsky.social . Our plenary speaker Prof Hans Clevers from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social talks about human epithelial organoids. #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We are ready to go at the CRUK Scotland Institute, @cruk-si.bsky.social, for this exciting meeting, bringing together a huge wealth of new technologies and scientific advances. First session this afternoon. Watch this space! #OrganoidsAreUs2025
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PREDICT-Meso @predict-meso.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
PREDICT-Meso International Conference 2026 📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN Abstract categories CLINICAL STUDIES & PATIENT CARE TARGETS MODELS & THERAPIES RISK & RESPONSE Submit your abstracts online at www.eventsforce.net/predict_meso... by 30 Nov 2025 #Mesothelioma #MesotheliomaConference
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Glasgow City of Science and Innovation @gcosi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🧬 Glasgow researcher Dr Alexander Raven has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to advance understanding of how liver cancer develops, with the aim of improving detection and treatment 📍 University of Glasgow 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/glasgow-canc...
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Glasgow Cancer Scientist Awarded Prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation
Alexander Raven, an early career researcher from the School of Cancer Sciences, has been awarded one of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) flagship Future Leaders Fellowships.
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🔬Join us for our upcoming Cancer Immunology Workshop: 'Lessons from the Microbes Within Us; Developing Next Generation Immunotherapeutics' 📅23-24 October 2025 📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow Abstract deadline: 26 September Register by: 10 October crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/immuno_works...
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities? Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social as a Junior Group Leader! 👉Apply here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/grou... 📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right.
 
Portrait of Owen Sansom to the left, text to the right
 
100 extraordinary biologists

Owen Sansom 

Owen Sansom is a DMM Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting. Owen is the Director of CRUK Scotland Institute, UK, where his research has been key in determining the molecular hallmarks of colorectal cancer and defining the roles of APC, WNT signalling and intestinal stem cells in tumourigenesis. 

#100biologists #biologists100
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We are delighted to be offering summer placements in 2026 with #In2research Learn more about the programme and application process at their information session next week - Monday 15 September 👉Register for the session here: ow.ly/VNg750WP8bf
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2025/26 In2research Participant Information Sessions
Are you interested in doing a PhD but aren’t sure how to get there? Then get In2research!
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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 09/09/2025
The first September issue is live. www.embopress.org/toc/14693178... The cover features work by Cassie Clarke @cassiejclarke.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social and co-workers showing that UPP1 supports #metastasis by altering #immune and ECM landscapes. -> www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy @ciml.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today we had the great honor to welcome Dr Ed Roberts from the Cancer Research UK-Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social. Ed gave a great talk on"Time dependent impact of viral infection on lung tumour development" and had great exchange with CIML scientists. Thanks Ed for visiting us!
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Healthcare in Europe @healthcare-europe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Greater speed, increased flexibility, and more: At the Digital Pathology and AI Congress in London, @johnlequesne.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and @cruk-si.bsky.social outlined how self-learning #AI offers a number of advantages for #digitalpathology compared to established AI options.
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Self-learning AI: a boost for digital pathology
Self-learning artificial intelligence approaches are offering a number of advantages for digital pathology when compared to established AI options. The benefits, which range from greater speed and cap...
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Josh Moore @josh-moore.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Come work with us! We're hiring for roles in spatial data analysis and mathematical modelling @ Oxford, studying drug response and metastasis in colorectal cancer as part of the CRC-STARS programme. Spatial Data Analysis: lnkd.in/eMWEdQJt Modelling: lnkd.in/e5KVb-FT Deadline: 11/09/25
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ENABLE conference @enableconference.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📢 Standard registration for #ENABLE2025 has been extended until 15 August! 🛑 Abstract submissions are closed, but you can still attend the full conference in Glasgow! Register now: febs-iubmb-enableconference.org/registration... #FEBSIUBMB #STEMconference #LifeSciences #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter
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Glasgow City of Science and Innovation @gcosi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🧬 Scientists at the University of Glasgow have uncovered a crucial breakthrough that could help stop breast cancer from spreading – a leading cause of death from the disease. 📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social 👇 Learn more glasgowcityofscienceandinnovation.com/university-o...
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University Of Glasgow Breast Cancer Breakthrough Offers Hope For Early Intervention | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation
Scientists at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute, based at the University of Glasgow, have made a discovery which could help stop the spread of breast cancer – one of the leading causes of deat...
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We are recruiting a Senior Scientific Officer to work with @nadianasreddin.bsky.social in the Sansom lab on the project WNT-driven cell competition: a target for novel preventative strategies against colorectal adenoma formation 📅Apply by 15 August 2025 www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/careers/
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Cassie Clarke @cassiejclarke.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Delighted to share that our work “Uridine Phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes” was published today in @emboreports.org, describing how neutrophil metabolism influences niche priming to support metastasis (1/14) www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Uridine phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes | EMBO reports
imageimageMetastatic primary tumours upregulate Upp1 in neutrophils, which elevates circulating uracil. UPP1-expressing neutrophils accumulate in the lung where they inhibit CD8+ T cells, promote fibr...
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎧 New podcast episode! Listen to 'Ask me anything about... the science of cancer-associated cachexia' ➡️️ zurl.co/lDcME  Experts from the Cancer Cachexia Action Network unpack the topic with @crukcampanccan.bsky.social. @cam.ac.uk @cruk-si.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🔬This year at the Glasgow Science Festival our researchers showcased the amazing cancer science happening in Glasgow! 🥼They had hands on activities including a virtual reality lab game, pipetting challenge and 3D printed tissue samples
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MRC National Mouse Genetics Network @mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Join us for Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium featuring organoids, stem cells, cancer, inflammatory disorders and infectious disease. 📆23 - 26 September 2025 📍Glasgow, Scotland Early bird registration extended to 18th July. Register below! 👇 www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/events/organ...
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Organoids Are Us 2025
Further information about this event including our invited speakers and conference programme are available in the tabs below. If you have any questions, please contact organoids-are-us@crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk
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Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute @cruk-si.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
👏We are delighted that all of our research groups have achieved their LEAF Bronze by improving their labs’ sustainability and efficiency!🧪🍃 Read more about their fantastic work here: www.crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/beatson-news/2084-cruk-si-research-groups-achieve-leaf-bronze.html
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