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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New paper bit.ly/4e5n2kT in @natrevcancer.nature.com exploring two targeted Cancer Grand Challenges designed to address critical unmet needs in gastroesophageal cancer. 💡Applications are now open, with up to $34M in funding available for global, interdisciplinary teams to take on these challenges.

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New conference announced! 📅 29 September - 1 October 2027 📍Royal Society, London Full programme, registration details and speaker line-up will be announced soon. 🔗 Find out more and join the waitlist: bit.ly/4y28v0y

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One bold idea can change everything. Paul Bastard is leading team ATLAS to explore whether autoantibodies also influence cancer risk. Read Paul’s full interview at bit.ly/4A4Og4B 📹 Includes footage from @institutimagine.bsky.social

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📢 Two new Cancer Grand Challenges 📢 Applications close 24 November. Discover the new challenges: bit.ly/4xfm78b Winning teams will be funded by the Torrey Coast Foundation and Cancer Research UK (CRUK), through Cancer Grand Challenges.

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Congratulations to team CANCAN on their feature in @nature.com, recognising their work to advance our understanding of cancer cachexia. Read the full article to hear from: @marcusgon.bsky.social, @jamal-hanjani-lab.bsky.social, Tobias Janowitz and Ed Reznik: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New hope in the fight against cachexia — cancer’s deadly co-conspirator

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the wasting and fatigue that often accompanies cancer. Treatments could be on the horizon.

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

@jamal-hanjani-lab.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk closed the conference with a fantastic talk on lung cancer metastasis, taking us from the perspective of the cancer cell, through to its microenvironment, the organ, the whole body and the whole patient.

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A new study from team OPTIMISTICC, published in @cellpress.bsky.social, shows that tumour-resident microbes are largely confined to cancers of the orodigestive tract. Together with team PROSPECT, they have generated a new resource and analytic pipeline. 👇 cancergrandchallenges.org/news/are-mic...

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you missed our Special Session at the #AACR Annual Meeting, you can still catch the key insights in the latest edition of Discover 👇 Take a closer look at the science with Allan Balmain and Mike Stratton: features.cancergrandchallenges.org/impact/

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thanks to everyone who let us pick their brain over the years! Especially the amazing @cancergrand.bsky.social team, Scientific Committee members past and present, all Cancer Grand Challenges team leads, funded scientists and programme managers. Let us know what you think!

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Such an honour to be included in this incredible special issue! We discuss how to support global team science and catalyse transformative discovery, drawing on our experience from @cancergrand.bsky.social "Just imagine what could be achieved in a system designed for true collaboration."

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Hallmarks of cancer research: Enabling transformative discovery through global team science

Since the original Hallmarks of Cancer, our understanding of the complexity of the disease has expanded dramatically. Researching cancer is no longer …

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tumours cannot be understood or treated in isolation, but interplay with the unique biology of their host— join us at this unique @cancergrand.bsky.social conference to discuss and debate cancer as a systemic disease! We have an amazing speaker line up from across the cancer research spectrum 👇

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Cancer Grand Challenges @cancergrand.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Next week is the final week to submit abstracts for Cancer and the Host: www.cancergrandchallenges.org/conferences/... 📥 Abstract deadline: 20 March 🗓️ 17–19 June 2026 📍The Royal Society, London This conference brings together leading researchers to explore cancer as a systemic disease. Read more 👇

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Cancer and the host

Taking place on 17 - 19 June 2026 in London, UK. Registration now open.

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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The new @cancergrand.bsky.social teams have been announced! Read about the teams tackling cancer avoidance, mechanisms driving mutational signatures, the dark proteome, cancer neuroscience, & rewiring cancer cells now in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

An update to the Hallmarks of Cancer framework for understanding (and researching) what causes human cancers. spkl.io/63321Aqwbc Douglas Hanahan @cp-cell.bsky.social

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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The October issue of Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social is now online! The cover features two papers on the role of #ecDNA heterogeneity in tumor evolution and adaptation to therapy - you can find these papers and much more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Move over AlphaFold3. Boltz-2 has arrived, bringing affinity prediction for protein-small molecule interactions! Can’t wait to see what this group does next. Congrats to all @gcorso.bsky.social Was a pleasure writing this: www.cancergrandchallenges.org/news/boltz-2...

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Boltz-2: democratising the future of drug design

Open source structure prediction with binding affinity

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Gabriele Corso @gcorso.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀

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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Mariam is part of team CANCAN, who are tackling the @cancergrand.bsky.social cachexia challenge!

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 29/04/2025

We're hiring! The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) seeks Scientific Editor or Senior Scientific Editor, dependent on experience. Join our team in New York City! More info 👉 careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs?keyword... #STEMjobs #LifeScienceJobs #PublishingJobs #ScienceJobs

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Georg Winter @georgwinter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hello, we are AITHYRA! I am very excited to share with you the corporate identity of AITHYRA, the Research Institute for Biomedical AI. Check out the brand design video (sound on!) to learn more. **REMINDER** One week left to apply for Starting PI positions (Life Science and AI/ML). Come join us!

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Rebecca Eccles @rebeccaeccles.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The 24/25 edition of @cancergrand.bsky.social progress magazine is now live! Including: 👉key advances from our funded teams 👉 the biggest themes in cancer research from early-onset cancers to AI and cancer as a systemic disease 👉our 7 new challenges features.cancerresearchuk.org/cancergrandc...

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DFS 0161 CGC Discover mag 2024

A year of scientific creativity

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