Wednesday 6th March 2019 09:30-16:00 This free “closed course” is designed for experienced knee surgeons. Course Director: Mr. Stephen McDonnell University Lecturer & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Addenbrooke’s Hospital</p? More details

The Royal College of Surgeons of England has awarded the Hunterian Professor Award to Dr Umar Sadat for his research in vascular surgery and imaging over the past 10 years. He will be presented with the medal later this year.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]