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Personalised Glioma Therapy: Promise vs Practice

2026-05-28 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Richard Mair, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Using light for cancer cell detection

2026-06-04 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Danielle Harper, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology

Early cancer clinical trials

2026-06-11 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Simon Pacey, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology

Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge

2026-06-18 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Kiran Purushothaman, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology.

Clonal haematopoiesis, early detection and pre-leukemia to leukemia development

2026-06-25 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Elisa Laurenti, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Department of Haematology

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy

2026-07-02 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Raj Jena, Cambridge University Hospitals and Department of Oncology

Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas

2026-07-16 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Terapeutics Institute

Tumour pathology, structure and nomenclature

2026-10-23 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

2026-10-30 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

2026-11-06 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

The mutationrs that drive cancer

2026-11-13 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Hypoxia, HIFs and cancer

2026-11-20 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Margaret Ashcroft, Department of Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

2026-11-27 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

2026-12-04 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Sir Steve Jackson, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, Department of Pathology.

2026-12-11 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Cancer metabolism through the lens of Otto WarburgCancer metabo

2027-01-08 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Christian Frezza, Professor of Metabolomics in Ageing, CECAD Research Center, Universi

Hh signalling and the anti-tumour immune response: biology and new treatment opportunities

2027-01-15 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Maike de la Roche Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Prof Adrian Liston, Department of Pathology.

2027-01-22 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

The role of transcription factors in cancer

2027-01-29 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Prof John Doorbar, Department of Pathology

2027-02-12 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Prof Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

2027-02-19 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Machine learning: applications to cancer

2027-02-26 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Dr Mireia Crispin Ortuzar, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

The two-hit hypothesis and other mathematical models of cancer

2027-03-05 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Jamie Blundell, Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

Dr Catherine Lindon, Department of Pharmacology

2027-03-12 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Prof Daniel Muñoz Espín , Early Cancer Institute and Department of Oncology.

2027-03-19 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Biological and clinical insights from genome-wide association studies of cancer

2027-03-26 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Mutational signatures: From bytes to bedside

2027-04-16 — School of Clinical Medicine, Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof Serena Nik-Zainal, NIHR Research Professor of Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics