Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam has been promoted to a Personal Readership in Urology effective from the 1st of October 2020

Grant Stewart has been appointed Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Cambridge. CRUK article

Mr Siong Liau has been awarded the Hunterian Lectureship (2020) by the Research Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons for his lecture entitled ‘Counteracting Immune evasion in DNA repair-deficient pancreatic cancers for immunotherapy’.

Dr Umar Sadat received the Hunterian medal at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Hunterian Professor Dr Umar Sadat delivered the official 2019 Hunterian lecture on ‘Morphological, biomechanical and functional assessment of atherosclerosis with magnetic resonance imaging” on 29th November 2019 in Manchester. Vice-president of the Royal […]

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam has won the University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor’s Award for the development of the Predict Prostate tool. It predicts ‘an individual’s prognosis following a prostate cancer diagnosis to help make decisions about the value of treatment’. Full article

The Predict Prostate prognostic tool has just been endorsed by NICE and recommended for decision making to support their new prostate cancer guidelines. This is the first model and webtool that NICE have endorsed in support of their guidelines. Predict Prostate developed in Cambridge by the Academic Urology Group, Department of Epidemiology and the Winton […]

Grant Stewart (Urological Surgeon, University Lecturer, CRUK Cambridge Centre Urological Malignancies Programme) has been awarded a James IV Association of Surgeons Travelling Fellowship. The Fellowship is a competitive award which funds recipients to travel for at least four weeks, with the goal of developing international links that are mutually beneficial to Cambridge and the host […]

Monday 14th October 2019 at Murray Edwards College. Keynote speaker: Prof. Cathy Holt, Cardiff University. The event will highlight the many ways that movement can be thought of in terms of musculoskeletal scientific research and its impact on society. It will also provide an understanding of how clinicians, scientists and engineers can work together to […]

Dr Sarah Lindsay and Dr Krishnaa Mahbubani from The Department of Surgery have been awarded the NUS silver Green Impact and Labs-gold awards in their first year of entering. Their work included starting up initiatives such as a pen recycling collection point, removing plastic cups and Meatless Mondays.

Dr. Sam Hookway, studying for an MPhil in Medical Science (Surgery), was no.6 in the winning crew for last weekend’s Boat Race. photos: AllMarkOne