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Feb 22

AI technology for Breast Cancer diagnosis

[01/02/2022] AI technology investigated for breast cancer diagnosis. Find out more here.

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Nov 21

Zooniverse! Crowdsourcing volunteers needed

Dr Anita Grigoriadis’ team have built a Zooniverse – online platform allowing volunteers to take part in scientific research. Task is to find microstructures in lymph nodes of breast cancer patients. Find out more here.

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Nov 21

2021 News

[04/10/2021] Congratulations to our new Masters’ students Izzi and Vicky for receiving the MRes course prize for the highest overall grade this year.

[07/06/2021] Congratulations to our PhD student Ellie for her recent publication in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences: Immune Crosstalk Between Lymph Nodes and Breast Carcinomas, With a Focus on B Cells.
 
[09/03/2021] Congratulation to our Masters student Izzi for winning the Translational Cancer Medicine award for top essay mark with her essay on CAR T cells for TNBC and in African-American women.
 
[16/02/2021] Congratulations to our postdoctoral cancer bioinformatician Jelmar Quist for his recent publication in Cancers: Random Forest Modelling of High-Dimensional Mixed-Type Data for Breast Cancer Classification.
 

[08/06/2021] Applications are now open for a Computational Research Associate within the Breast Cancer NOW Unit, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at King’s College London. Find out more here

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Dec 20

2020 News

[19/11/2020] Anita Grigoriadis features in Nature Research speaking about the importance of biobanking (Population matters: Biobanks accelerate geno–pheno discoveries).
 
[03/11/2020] Applications are now open for a Bioinformatician within the Breast Cancer NOW Unit, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at King’s College London. Find out more here.
 
[07/10/2020] Applications are now open for the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre PhD and Clinical Research Fellow Training Programme
 
[11/09/2020] Congratulations to Tom for winning the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Research Symposium three minute thesis heat competition!
 

[04/09/2020] Congratulations to Ellie for winning the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences Postgraduate Research Symposium photo competition!

Ellie's 'price' image

[12/03/2020] Ellie is running the London Marathon in aid of Breast Cancer Now!

[17/02/2020] Jelmar will present a poster at AACR Annual Meeting 2020 in San Diego, USA

[02/01/2020] Tom will present a poster at the UKIBCS 2020 conference in Birmingham

[02/01/2020] Ellie joined the group as a PhD student

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Aug 19

2019 News

[31/10/2019] Radhika, Jelmar & Anita are teaching at the second UK India Bioinformatics workshop organised in collaboration with the Tata Memorial Centre.

23/10/2019] Radhika is presenting a poster at Host Microbiome Interactions conference at the Wellcome Genome Campus.

[21/10/2019] #wearitpink

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[08/10/2019] We have a new PhD available – More details can be found here.

[30/09/2019] Fangfang Joined the group

[21/09/2019] Kinjalka joined the group for a Masters project

[15/08/2019] We have a new position open for a Bioinformatician, applications close on Sunday 15th September 2019. More details and how to apply can be found here.

[01/07/2019] Mahedah, Animesh, Alfonso and Christelle left after completing their masters / summer projects with the group

[04/06/2019] Orsi will give a talk at the British Breast Group meeting in Sheffield on 28th June – presenting the findings on genomic instability in metastatic TNBC in the TNT trial

[03/06/2019] Tom is visiting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to meet with collaborators on the lymph node project

[08/04/2019] Alfonso has joined the group for a masters project

[08/04/2019] Mahedah has joined the group for a masters project

[08/04/2019] Animesh has joined the group for a summer project

[08/04/2019] Suman has joined the group for a masters project

[07/01/2019] Christelle joined the group for a six month masters project.

[02/01/2019] Chang joined the group as a post doc.

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Aug 18

2018 News

[30/11/2018] Ayesha left the group to take up a bioinformatics position at the Max Planck Institute.

[23/11/2018] Salpie passed her PhD viva!

[05/11/2018] We have two new positions available with in our group. For more information on both of these, visit the Jobs page.

[28/10/2018] Antia, Tom & Jelmar are in Mumbai teaching the UK India Bioinformatics Workshop on NGS Data Analysis organised in collaboration with the Tata Memorial Centre.

[05/10/2018] Our paper entitled “A four-gene decision tree signature classification of triple-negative breast cancer: Implications for targeted therapeutics” has been accepted for publication in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

[01/10/2018] Radhika joined the group as new PhD student.

[20/09/2018] Dalia passed her PhD Viva! Congratulations!

[15/09/2018] Our review entitled “Molecular patterns of cancer colonisation in lymph nodes of breast cancer patients” has been accepted for publication in Breast Cancer Research.

[05/07/2018] Yue joined the group as a new PhD student.

[01/07/2018] Lawson and Ayesha joined the group for their data science master project.

[29/06/2018] We have a new position available in our group. More details can be found here, Applications close on the 23rd July 2018.

[15/05/2018] Anita presented a talk as part of the the Pint of Science festival pint of science .

[08/05/2018] Jelmar passed his PhD Viva! Congratulations Dr. Quist!

[01/05/2018] We have a new MRC funded PhD in data science and artificial Intelligence looking to use deep learning to predict outcome in cancer patients. Applications are open until 23:59 on Monday 28th May. More details can be found here.

[16-20/04/2018] Tom attended an Advanced RNA Sequencing course run by EBI at the Wellcome Genome Campus.

[10/04/2018] Anita is presenting a Pint of Science talk titled “An equation for every occasion!” on Tuesday 15th May at 19:00. Tickets are available from here!

[02/04/2018] Boon Fong Chong has joined the group for a masters project.

[28/03/2018] Anita has been appointed to the role of School Lead (International) in the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Science.

[12-18/03/2018] Tom attended a Cancer Genomic course run by Bioinformatics Canada at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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[23/01/2018] Our paper on lymph node architectural changes predictive for developing distant metastasis has been published in J Path: Clinical Research, and had press coverage in The Daily Mail, EurekAlert and KCL

[15-16/01/2018] Jelmar’s abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the
UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium in Manchester.

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Aug 17

2017 News

[5-8/11/2017] Hasan’s abstract was accepted for Oral presentation at NCRI conference in November at Liverpool.

[02/11/17] Our work on
“Gene expression modules in primary breast cancers as risk factors for organotropic patterns of first metastatic spread: a case control study” has now been published in Breast Cancer Research and is featured in KCL Spotlight

[16-18/10/2017] Anita was a keynote speaker at the 2017 NETTAB Workshop at Palermo: Methods, tools & platforms for Personalized Medicine in the Big Data Era

[13-14/10/2017] Anita presented a poster at MAP 2017 – Molecular Analysis for Personalised Therapy , conference in Zurich titled “Immune-stroma-histological (ISH)-risk score identifies low-risk group within LN-positive breast cancers”

[28/09/2017] Anita gave a talk at Imperial College London on “Capturing the intra- and inter- tumor heterogeneity to identify potential biomarkers of progression of low Grade prostate cancers”

[25/09/2017] Gaurav Chatterjee has joined the group.

[25/09/2017] Tom Hardiman has joined the group.

[11/09/2017] Orsolya Sipos has joined the group.

[15/08/2017] Jelmar visited the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) to discuss his work on HORMAD1 as a driver of genomic instability in triple-negative breast cancer.

[03/04/2017] Jelmar’s abstract has been selected for an oral presentation at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting taking place June 2-6.

[27/01/2017] Jelmar presented his work at British Breast Group meeting in York.

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[03/01/2017] Cancer Bioinformatics moved to the new Guy’s Cancer Centre.   We are now based at the Innovation Hub.

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Aug 16

2016 News

[21-25/11/2016] Cancer bioinformatics, in collaboration with KCL Cancer Division, conducted the “Master Class in Translational Research using Bioinformatics and Epidemiology” from 21-25 November 2016.

[06-09/11/2016] Aisyah, Jelmar, and Salpie attended the 2016 NCRI Cancer Conference in Liverpool UK

[20/10/2016] Anita hosted the NanoString workshop

[14/10/2016] Salpie presented her work at “Making Progress: Research Network UK” at the Royal College of Physicians.

[05/10/2016] Anita visited TATA Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

[29/09/2016] Qingli Guo joined the group

[29/09/2016] Cancer Bioinformatics hosted the 2nd Central European Bioinformatics Meeting

[13/09/2016] Anita is presenting at 3rd Precision Medicine Congress.

[12/09/2016] Aisyah is attending the 3rd Precision Medicine Congress.

[25/08/2016] Irvin has completed his summer intership and is back in France to complete his undergraduate.

[15/08/2016] Salpie started her visit at the Harvard University.

[02/08/2016] Jelmar is demonstrating at the KHP BRC Summerschool where he will explain breast cancer classification with microarray analysis using Connect Four.

[22/07/2016] Cancer Bioinformatics is attending the UK Breast Cancer Research Symposium 2016.

[06/07/2016] Jelmar is attending the Seventh NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Training Camp at the Ashridge Business School from 6th-8th July 2016

[29/04/2016] Aisyah has received the EACR Student Travel Award to present her research at the EACR24 Congress in Manchester, UK, 9-12 July 2016

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Aug 15

2015 News

[23/10/2015] A 5-day short course “Master Class in Translational Research using Bioinformatics and Epidemiology” is being organized by the Division of Cancer Studies and run by <a href=”https://cancerbioinformatics.co.uk/people/#anita” target=”_blank”>Dr. Anita Grigoriadis</a>, Dr. Mieke Van Hemelrijck, and Professor Lars Holmberg. The course will be held at<a href=”http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/guys/Guys.aspx”target=”_blank”> King’s College London’s Guy’s Campus</a> from 16th to 20th November 2015 and will provide the conceptual framework as well as a methodological introduction to the integrated use of epidemiology and bioinformatics approaches in modern translational research. For more information and registration <a href=”https://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/shortcourses/details/name/master-class-in-translational-research-using-bioinformatics-and-epidemiology–obr-november-2015-cbr-/keyword/medicine=”target=”_blank”>click here.</a>

[15/10/2015] <a href=”https://cancerbioinformatics.co.uk/people/#aisyah” target=”_blank”>Aisyah</a> is visiting researchers at the lab of <a href=”http://peroulab.med.unc.edu/” target=”_blank”>Charles Perou</a> at the University of North Carolina until November 14, 2015.

[02/10/2015] <a href=”https://cancerbioinformatics.co.uk/people/#kayleigh” target=”_blank”>Kayleigh Ougham</a> has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Kayleigh!

[01/09/2015] <a href=”https://cancerbioinformatics.co.uk/people/#tom” target=”_blank”>Tom</a> joined the group for a summer project. He set up the Cancer Bioinformatics website.

[29/07/2015] <a href=”https://cancerbioinformatics.co.uk/people/#aisyah” target=”_blank”>Aisyah</a> has been awarded a KCL-UNC Partnership Grant for a one-month research exchange trip to the University of North Carolina.
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