UM Lead awarded the John Fitzpatrick Award
UM Lead Professor Grant Stewart was awarded the John Fitzpatrick Award by the Kidney Cancer Association at IKCS: Europe 2022 in Antwerp,...
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Madeleine Doutney
Apr 19, 20222 min read
UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh wins ACED Project Award
UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh has won a prestigious ACED Project Award for a project entitled 'Comprehensive genomic analysis of tumour and host...
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Madeleine Doutney
Mar 29, 20221 min read
YCR release video detailing YKST's successes
Yorkshire Cancer Research have released a video which details the outstanding progress that the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial has made...
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Madeleine Doutney
Jan 11, 20221 min read
UM Programme Member authors chapter in new book
UM Programme Member Sabrina Rossi has authored a chapter on Renal Cancer in Basic Urological Sciences (eds. Karl H. Pang, Nadir I. Osman,...
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Madeleine Doutney
Jan 5, 20221 min read
Repurpose your science for urological cancers and you could receive a £10,000 grant
The Urological Malignancies Programme is offering a pump-priming grant of £10,000 to an early-career, postdoctoral fundamental scientist...
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Madeleine Doutney
Dec 8, 20211 min read
UM Lead co-authored article published in the New England Journal of Medicine labelled 'game changer'
An article co-written by UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh and published in the New England Journal of Medicine has been described as a 'potential...
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Madeleine Doutney
Dec 8, 20211 min read
UM Programme members featured on BBC's Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
Last week's Surgeons: At the Edge of Life featured the skill and stamina of UM Programme member Alex Colquhoun with Nicola Fearnhead, as...
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Madeleine Doutney
Oct 28, 20211 min read
Two UM articles listed as 2020 'must reads'
Two articles authored by members of the UM programme have been named 'must read'. The final session at the 2021 European Association of...
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Madeleine Doutney
Oct 13, 20211 min read
UM Lead helps lay the foundations for effective trial design
UM Lead Professor Grant Stewart has cowritten an article in Contemporary Clinical Trials, entitled 'RAMPART; A Model for a...
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Madeleine Doutney
Sep 21, 20211 min read
Dr Sarah Welsh presents the translational results to the successful NAVIVA trial
UM Programme Lead, Dr Sarah Welsh, presented the translational results to the successful NAVIVA trial at the AUA's Annual Meeting last...
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Madeleine Doutney
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial the highest recruiting trial in Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust
New data for April-July 2021 has demonstrated that the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial recruited 793 participants, making it the highest...
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Carley Batley
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Professor Grant Stewart talks controversy in renal cancer surgery with the Uromigos
Evidence of patient benefit (oncological outcomes, renal function, cardiovascular events, overall survival) for radical versus partial...
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Carley Batley
Jul 7, 20211 min read
Origins of seven types of kidney cancer identified in new research
Urological Malignancies programme member Tom Mitchell of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and colleagues from Great Ormond Street Hospital,...
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Carley Batley
Jun 22, 20212 min read
Guest Post by Professor Margaret Ashcroft: CRISPR/Cas9 screening
Urological Malignancies programme member, Professor Margaret Ashcroft and her team of researchers recently published their work on...
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Carley Batley
Jun 16, 20211 min read
Targeting kidney cancer screening at people at higher risk shows promise
New research from Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial leads Professor Grant Stewart and Dr Juliet Usher-Smith shows that a risk stratified...
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Carley Batley
May 20, 20212 min read
Non-invasive Diagnostics for Renal Cancer - researchers win major funding award
Together with Urological Malignancies programme lead Professor Grant Stewart, Dr Sabrina Rossi and Dr Charlie Massie of the CRUK Early...
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Carley Batley
May 6, 20213 min read
'DNA Repair in Urological Malignancies' - a breakfast meeting with Robert Hanson
Robert Hanson, a PhD student in Charlie Massey's lab is studying prostate cancer and developing markers of response and resistance to DNA...
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Carley Batley
Apr 20, 20212 min read
University of Cambridge Professor Evis Sala launches cancer screening AI start-up Lucida Medical.
Co-founders Professor Sala and Dr Antony Rix have developed cancer screening AI software using radiogenomics, machine learning and image...
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Carley Batley
Apr 13, 20211 min read
You can help Addenbrooke's buy a surgical robot
Urological Malignancies Lead Professor Grant Stewart is one of five clinicians featured in a new fundraising campaign by Addenbrooke's...
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Carley Batley
Mar 25, 20212 min read
ARTIST study recruits over 100 participants in first 60 days
ARTIST (a translational research Approach to development of optimal Renal cancer Treatments In Surgical and systemic Therapy patients)...
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