By applying the latest analytical technologies to clinical samples taken from breast cancer patients, the new project ABC Discover represents an entirely new phase in our breast cancer research and aims to provide the basis for precision medicine in breast cancer. ABC Discover has been created to improve rates of early detection and improve our …
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Dr. Wanatchaporn Arunmanee visited the Against Breast Cancer funded research lab at the University of Southampton to learn about antibody-based cancer therapeutics and to contribute to the ABC research programme. Dr. Arunmanee, a Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand with a PhD from Newcastle now runs a research team in Bangkok developing …
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Oriel College situated within the University of Oxford provides the base for the Against Breast Cancer Research Fellowships. Created in 2018 to provide research support for some of the country’s leading scientists and clinicians, this 9-year long commitment provides funding for two positions, each for a three year period. Dr Andrew Blackford and Dr Simon …
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Promising results of his team’s research into the extracellular matrix of triple negative breast cancer has led Dr Oliver Pearce to being awarded a CRUK Career Establishment Award of over £800,000 to continue and develop his work for a further six years. Dr Pearce was the first recipient of a seed grant following our call …
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Thanks to improvements in awareness, early diagnosis and novel therapies, the majority of breast cancers are successfully treated. However, there are still around 11,400 lives lost to breast cancer in the UK every year, mainly caused by cancer spreading to other parts of the body (a process called metastasis or secondary breast cancer). Unfortunately, we …
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