CRUK Convergence Science Centre
banner
crukconvergence.bsky.social
CRUK Convergence Science Centre
@crukconvergence.bsky.social
Bringing together engineering, physical sciences, life sciences and medicine to address key questions in cancer research across @icr.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

convergencesciencecentre.ac.uk
Pinned
👋Hello to the #CancerResearch community on Bluesky. If you want to know more about #ConvergenceScience and how we bring researchers together from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @icrlondon.bsky.social check out our new website page 👇

www.convergencesciencecentre.ac.uk/about/our-mi...
💜Nov is #PancreaticCancerAwarenessMonth. #PancreaticCancer remains hard to detect & treat, with slow improvements in survival.🙏Thank you to those who supported this video, highlighting that progress relies on multistakeholder action to accelerate the adoption of early-detection tests. bit.ly/4rGiln1
Accelerating Pancreatic Cancer Test Adoption: A Multi-Stakeholder Call to Action
A short film highlighting the challenges of translating new pancreatic cancer tests into GP settings—featuring clinicians, scientists, and patients calling on the NHS and stakeholders for faster adoption.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#BenchToBedside: Our Centre-funded students gathered last week to explore how discoveries become real clinical impact. Sessions covered translational science, #ClinicalTrials, #PPIE, #Entrepreneurship, and taking innovations into practice.
Thanks to our brilliant speakers for sharing their expertise
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#ConvergingOnCancer Seminar: #AI in medical imaging 🤖 📸

Find out how #ConvergenceScience can be used in #CancerResearch, chaired by Prof Paul French, Department of Physics at Imperial College London.

🗓️ Thursday 4th December, 3-4pm
bit.ly/4pskalg
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🤝 Researchers and the community came together for a community partner-led event that sparked new collaborations, fresh ideas and renewed energy for meaningful patient and public #involvement in #CancerResearch.
Read the full article: bit.ly/47QrJML
#PPIE #Cancer
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🌟 Early Career Clinicians: Apply for our Clinical Research Training Fellowship with @icr.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to build your #research skills and accelerate your #academic career.

👉 bit.ly/3LNTxc1
🗓 Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

#ConvergenceScience #CRF #Cancer #CancerResearch
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
❗One week left to apply for our intercalated #PhD (iPhD) ⌛

If you're a medical student interested in becoming a clinician-scientist, check out our PhD projects for 2026. 👇
🩺 Are you a #MedStudent doing an iBSc? We're looking for future clinician-scientists to join our intercalated #PhD ( #iPhD) programme in 2026.

Explore projects & apply by 20 Nov 👉 bit.ly/48YA5Tp

Please share with your networks!

#CancerResearch #ConvergenceScience #CRUKFunded
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📣Call open for our 2026 Development Fund

Up to £80K for 12 months to support bold, cross-disciplinary #CancerResearch that bridges the life, clinical, #engineering & #PhysicalSciences across @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @icr.ac.uk

➡️ bit.ly/4qVGLID

#FundingOpportunity #ConvergenceScience
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🌟Meet the next generation of #ConvergenceScience researchers at our Future Leaders #seminar! Centre #PhD students present their research and share how they navigate different disciplines & shape their scientific paths.

📅Wed 12 November, 3-4pm
Hosted by: @udaibanerji.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4oP1r2Z
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #CancerResearch and #DataScience? 🤔

Applications are now open for our #ConvergenceScience Non-Clinical Data Science PhD programme, in partnership with StatML.

Sign up to 1 of 3 Q+A sessions or check out our website for more information 👉 bit.ly/43bid48
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome our new CSC Cohort!🚀

Huge thanks to Professors McNeish, Isacke & Behrens for their insights, and to Shahrzad Forouzanfar, Bowen Su & Diana David for introducing our facilities. Here’s to a year of discovery, growth & achievement!💪

#PhD #ConvergenceScience #CancerResearch
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🌍 #ConvergingOnCancer: International Online Seminar

An #AcademicSeminar for our partners across #Europe and #Singapore to demonstrate how #ConvergenceScience is used to answer #Cancer related questions.

🗓 Thursday 6th Nov 2025
🕙 10–11am GMT | 11–12 CET | 6–7pm SGT
🔗http://bit.ly/4qmRxqX
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢 We're #hiring a #Health Economist to be part of our #Cancer Technology Catalyst Team to expedite the journey of promising cancer technologies from concept to clinical impact.

Find out more and share with your networks 👇
jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

#ConvergenceScience #Economics
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Over half of #cancers show MYC deregulation - long seen as “undruggable.” #Research from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @icr.ac.uk, with #PhD student James Zhang, finds MYC cancers may be vulnerable to NMT inhibitors.

Learn more 👉http://bit.ly/4on0EGm

#ConvergenceScience #CancerResearch
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
⚡Can light could be used to manipulate tumour-associated bacteria?🦠Find out how Prof Anguraj Sadanandam, Dr Jang Ah Kim and @jameskinross.bsky.social from @icr.ac.uk and @imperialsandc.bsky.social are investigating how this could make #immunotherapies safer and more effective.
#ConvergenceScience
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🤖 Find out how nanotechnology is being used to both prevent the spread and deliver targeted treatment for advanced #ProstateCancer – led by Dr Robert Kypta and a multi-disciplinary team of scientists across Imperial: @imperialsandc.bsky.social @impengineering.bsky.social 👇
#ConvergenceScience
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🩺 Are you a #MedStudent doing an iBSc? We're looking for future clinician-scientists to join our intercalated #PhD ( #iPhD) programme in 2026.

Explore projects & apply by 20 Nov 👉 bit.ly/48YA5Tp

Please share with your networks!

#CancerResearch #ConvergenceScience #CRUKFunded
October 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🔎 Bringing together expertise in #bioengineering, optical #physics and #oncology to enhance earlier detection of #cancer. Find out more about how this #research led by @pantazislab.bsky.social and @udaibanerji.bsky.social is shaping the future of cancer diagnosis. 👇
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Early stages of #metastasis are poorly understood despite causing 90% of cancer deaths. A new project led by Prof Darryl Overby and Prof @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social is looking to develop tools to study #cancer spread in unprecedented detail while reducing the need for animals in research.🐁👇
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🩸Find out more about how a team of scientists, led by Dr
Sylvain Ladame at @impengineering.bsky.social and Prof Nick Turner at @icr.ac.uk are developing better blood tests to predict treatment outcomes in #cancer patients. 👇

#ConvergenceScience #Oncology #CancerResearch
@cancerresearchuk.org
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Congratulations to our 2025 Development Fund awardees! 🎉

From new detection tools to targeted nanotech therapies, these seed funded projects explore bold ideas to improve cancer diagnosis & treatment.
👉 bit.ly/4gV38tf

@icr.ac.uk @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsandc.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A study led by our Scientific Director Prof Axel Behrens, found that blocking protein SPP1 can boost survival & stop the spread of #PancreaticCancer in mice. A breakthrough that could pave the way for new targeted treatments.
👉 bit.ly/4gTvG6q
@icr.ac.uk @imperialsandc.bsky.social @nature.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Is it possible to predict the trajectory of cancer and prevent progression? 🤔 Find out how #ConvergenceScience can answer this at our upcoming #ConvergingOnCancer seminar for colleagues across the @icr.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

📅 Thurs 2nd Oct 2025
⌚ 3-4pm BST
✍️ bit.ly/4pIObhS
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔬 Discoveries in #CancerResearch are stronger when shaped with the people who have experienced #Cancer. Find out why #PPIE matters, how it benefits researchers, and where to get support 👉 bit.ly/41TGN9b   

#BetterResearchTogether #ResearchSupport
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We support the development of new technologies that enable long-term monitoring and prediction of cancer treatment response. Using #ConvergenceScience, a recent study from The ICR and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social demonstrates how a new type of test can achieve this in lymphoid cancers. 👇
🚨 NEW cancer test could predict treatment up to a decade before it’s needed.

Developed by researchers at the ICR and @idibaps.bsky.social, it reads DNA methylation to trace tumour evolution.

This could revolutionise personalised cancer care across many cancer types.

www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr...
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📢 We're #hiring a Health Economist to lead early-stage health economic modelling and health technology assessment (HTA) for cutting-edge oncology innovations. 💻 💊

Find out more and share with your networks 👇
jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

#ConvergenceScience #Economics #Cancer
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM