Kourosh Saeb-Parsy is featured in an article in Nature: Juggling research and family life: honest reflections from scientist dads “I don’t buy the idea that you have to sacrifice family life for your profession. Historically, that might have been the case, but times are changing, and I tell my students that you have to aim […]
Archives for 2018
Dads in Science
50th Anniversary of Liver Transplantation in Cambridge
Full Programme: Looking Back, Looking Forwards On 16 – 17 July 2018, the Department of Surgery hosted a meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of liver transplantation, pioneered in May 1968 by the Professor of Surgery at the time in Cambridge, Sir Roy Calne FRS. Day 1 presentations (Vimeo) Liver tolerance and the start […]
Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 for screening at point-of-care for early assessment of renal cell cancer
Mr Grant Stewart, University Lecturer in Department of Surgery, and Professor Russell Cowburn FRS, Professor of Experimental Physics, have been successful in their application to the Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 for their project entitled “Screening at Point-of-care for Early Assessment of Renal cell cancer (SPEAR)”. The joint project aims to develop a non-invasive, urine-based diagnostic […]
Single cell RNA sequencing reveals developmental similarities of kidney cancer cells
Mr Tom Mitchell (Clinical Lecturer, Department of Surgery) and Mr Grant Stewart (University Lecturer, Department of Surgery), and colleagues from across the Clinical School reported in Science the precise cellular identity of kidney cancer cells. The team used single cell RNA sequencing technologies, studying just over 70,000 cells derived from tumours and normal kidney tissues representing […]
Clinical School researcher awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarship
Congratulations to Miss Cissy Yong (Urology Academic Clinical Fellow) who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship (in conjunction with The Urology Foundation) to spend 3 months in the laboratory of Professor Ralph DeBerardinis at University of Texas Southwestern. Cissy, who is supervised by Mr Grant Stewart (University Lecturer in Urological Surgery), will learn various […]
The tracking the evolution of renal cancer cells
Kidney cancer research continues to flourish in the Cambridge Renal Cancer Group (CanRenCam) within the Department of Surgery. A collaboration between Mr Tom Mitchell (Clinical Lecturer, Department of Surgery), the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the TRACERx Renal consortium has revealed how and when renal cell carcinomas initiate to clearly depict the evolutionary trajectories of these […]
Cambridge Prostate Group validation study
Researchers working in the Department of Surgery have published a major new paper in BMC Medicine validating a Cambridge developed more accurate prognostic scoring system for men with new prostate cancer. This validation study of nearly 75,000 men, confirms that the CPG 5-tiered prognostic model has superior discrimination in predicting prostate cancer death over the […]
Moynihan Travelling Fellowship Award
Mr Siong S. Liau who is a Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and a concurrent MRC-Academy of Medical Sciences Clinician Scientist at the University Department of Surgery and MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge has been awarded one of the most prestigious surgical travelling fellowships in the British Isles, the 2018 Association of Surgeons […]
