News/Events

How AI is helping Norfolk and Norwich hospital fight cancer

Experts from the region's biggest hospital have revealed how artificial intelligence could have a key role in play in helping diagnose cancer patients.

NCRN Symposium 2023

5th June 2023, Thomas Paine Building, UEA

NCRN Virtual Seminar – Mark Searcey

Title: Towards new anticancer agents from targeting protein-protein interactions - a whistle stop journey through 20 years
Speaker: Mark Searcey, School of Pharmacy, UEA

Revolutionary new bone cancer drug could save children’s lives

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed a new drug that works against all the main types of primary bone cancer.

UEA SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH FOR ‘NEXT GENERATION’ CANCER TREATMENT

Scientists at the University of East Anglia are a step closer to creating a new generation of light-activated cancer treatments.

NCRN Virtual Seminar – Daniel Brewer

Monday 12th December 1pm

NCRN Virtual Seminar – Rachel Hurst

Monday 28th November 1pm

NCRN Virtual Seminar – Aisha Jibril

Monday 14th November 1pm

UEA BREAKTHROUGH REVEALS HOW PROSTATE CANCER MAY BEGIN

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an important discovery about how prostate cancer may start to develop.

WCRF Regular Grant Programme call is open

World Cancer Research Fund International are now accepting grant applications for research into the role of diet, weight, nutrition and physical activity on cancer prevention and survival.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Christopher Benwell

Join us at Wednesday 20th July at 12pm for a seminar titled "Neuropilin-2 as a novel angiogenic player: co-targeting endothelial neuropilins to inhibit cancer"

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Vincent Gnanapragasam

Join us at Wednesday 8th June 1pm for a seminar titled "Advances in clinical risk and prognostic stratification in prostate cancer"

HOW THE BODY FIGHTS BACK AGAINST CANCER

New research from the University of East Anglia and Quadram Institute reveals how our immune system can be triggered to attack cancer cells.

A potenital new test from urine for prostate cancer

In this study, we develop a test that can predict whether a patient has prostate cancer and how aggressive that cancer is.

FIVE TYPES OF BACTERIA LINKED TO AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have found a link between bacteria and aggressive forms of prostate cancer.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Prakrit Kumar

Join us at Wednesday 27th April 12pm for a seminar titled "Understanding Tumour Cell Interactions with Stromal Cells”

NCRN Cancer Symposium 2022

NCRN Cancer, Symposium 2022, 9th June 2022 Thomas Paine Building, UEA. Deadline for registration: 26th May 2021.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Felix Naughton

Join us at Wednesday 30th March 12pm for a seminar titled "Supporting people to quit smoking via automated and highly tailored mobile phone support (mCessation)"

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Bogdan Luca

Join us at Wednesday 2nd March 4pm for a seminar titled "Atlases of clinically-distinct cell states and cellular ecosystems in solid cancers and diffuse large B cell lymphoma”

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Anastasios Karadimitris

Join us at Wednesday 16th February 2pm for a seminar titled "Transcriptional deregulation in multiple myeloma”

NCRN Early Career Spotlight: Sean Tattan

This edition of the NCRN ‘Early Career Spotlight’ series focuses on Sean Tattan, a PhD student at the University of East Anglia in the School of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Emily Hobson – School of Pharmacy, UEA

Join us at Wednesday 8th December 12pm for a seminar titled "Targeting Nrf2 in non-small cell lung cancer"

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Lynn Turner: Worldwide Cancer Research – what makes a good grant application?

Join us at Wednesday 24th November 12pm for a seminar titled “Worldwide Cancer Research – what makes a good grant application?”

PROSTATE CANCER URINE TEST IDENTIFIES GOOD PROGNOSIS PATIENTS

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have shown that a prostate cancer urine test can identify men at ‘intermediate risk’ who can safely avoid immediate treatment and benefit from ‘active surv

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Griselda Awanis – Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Join us at Wednesday 10th November 12pm for a seminar titled 'Hepatocyte growth factor induces tunneling nanotubes in A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells'

NCRN Cancer Symposium 2022

The NCRN Cancer symposium to be hosted on the 13th January 2022 in the Bob Champion Research & Education Building (UEA).

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Pilar Acedo – Institute for Liver & Digestive Health, University College London

Join us at Wednesday 27th October 12pm for a seminar titled “Novel strategies to improve biliary and pancreatic cancer outcome”

UEA BREAKTHROUGH COULD PROTECT AGAINST BREAST CANCER PROGRESSION

Leading scientists have identified a possible link between antibiotic use and the speed of breast cancer growth in mice, and identified a type of immune cell that could be targeted to reverse it.

Early Career Spotlight: Dr Zoë Goddard

As part of our new ‘Early Career Spotlight’ series, we spoke to Dr Zoë Goddard, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of East Anglia, about her career in cancer research.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Jamie Moore – Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Join us at Wednesday 15th September 12pm for a seminar titled 'The Interplay Between Bone Marrow Macrophages and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia'

Norwich Cancer Research Network Symposium 2022

Coming January 2022. Contributions will be needed.

For more information contact d.brewer@uea.ac.uk.

New Research Grants Round Announced by Big C

An invitation for new research grant applications has been announced by local cancer charity,
Big C.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Kumud Kantilal – School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia

Join us at Wednesday 7th July 12pm for a seminar titled “DiSCO: Co-designing a self-management support service in primary care”.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Greg Brooke – School of Life Sciences, University of Essex

Join us at Wednesday 7th July 12pm for a seminar titled 'Targetting androgen receptor signalling for the treatment of prostate cancer and COVID-19'.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dylan Edwards, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UEA

Join us at Wednesday 9th June 1pm 2021 for a seminar titled ‘Remembrance of TIMPs Past’

Thousands of men to trial prostate cancer home testing kit

Thousands of men worldwide are to receive a home test kit for prostate cancer – thanks to pioneering research from the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH).

New microbiome and breast cancer study

Scientists from the Norwich Research Park are launching a new study to see whether the microbes in our digestive system could be the unlikely heroes in the fight against breast cancer.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Jacintha O’Sullivan, Trinity St. James’s Cancer Institute, Trinity College Dublin

Join us at Wednesday 26th May 12pm 2021 for a seminar titled ‘Targeting the sweet spot in Gastrointestinal Cancer’

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Marc Moncrieff, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital and Norwich Medical School

Join us at Wednesday 12th May 1pm 2021 for a seminar titled ‘The changing face of melanoma - future research directions’

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Iain Macaulay, Earlham Institute

Join us at Wednesday 5th May 1pm 2021 for a seminar titled 'Exploring cellular heterogeneity with single-cell multiomics'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Peter Van Loo, The Francis Crick Institute

Join us at 12pm Wednesday 31 March 2021 for a seminar titled 'Molecular archaeology of cancer'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: James Soper and Lorna Ravenhill, Ximbio

Join us at 12pm Wednesday 3 March 2021 for a seminar titled 'Introducing Ximbio - Part of Cancer Research UK’s Commercial Partnerships team'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Prof. Cathie Martin, John Innes Centre

Join us at 12pm Wednesday 17 February 2021 for a seminar titled 'The Yin and Yang of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine: Bioactive diterpenoids from Scutellaria barbata as an example.'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dr Abe Gihawi, Norwich Medical School

Join us at 12pm Wednesday 3rd February 2021 for a seminar titled, 'Searching for Pathogens in Cancer Sequence Data.'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Prof. David Wedge, University of Manchester

Join us 20 January 2021 for a seminar titled 'The Genomics of Metastasis in Oesophageal, Prostate and Skin Cancers.'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dr Stephen Robinson, Quadram Institute

Join us Wednesday 6 January for a seminar titled, 'The Complexities Of Long Distance: A Relationship Between The Gut Microbiome And Breast Cancer'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dimitra Lamprinaki, Quadram Institute

Join us 9th of December 2020 at 12pm for a seminar titled 'The role of glycans in the tumour associated microbiota in colon cancer'.

CRUK opportunity, Alderley Park Oncology Development Programme

Cancer researchers are invited to apply for a 3-day pre-accelerator bootcamp.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dr Girgis Obaid, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas

Join us 25th of November 2020 at 12pm for a seminar titled 'Precision nanomedicines for cancer therapy: shedding light on the conundrum of tumor targeting'.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Dr Stuart Rushworth, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

Join us 11th November 2020 at 12pm for a seminar titled 'Immunometabolic regulation of the leukaemic tumour microenvironment'

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Carla Arnau Del Valle, University of East Anglia

Please join us for a seminar on near-infrared based fluorescent nanoprobe for the detection of intracellular nitric oxide.

Dr Rianne Lord, UEA Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, awarded £979K to examine the potential of new targeted cancer treatments

From drug discovery to cancer treatment, two University of East Anglia research projects are set to benefit from a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) award worth more than £2 million.

Virtual Seminar: Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at Cambridge

Join us Wednesday 20th October at 13.30 for an online seminar titled, 'Harnessing the value of whole genome sequencing in human cancers'

NCRN Cancer Research Symposium 2020

Join us for the Norwich Cancer Research's first research symposium.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Jyotsna Vohra, Cancer Research UK

Please join us for a seminar on the importance of developing the CRUK prevention research strategy.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Michelle Garrett, University of Kent

Please join us for a seminar on CHK1 kinase as a cancer drug target: From concept to clinic.

Team led by UEA and University of Manchester publish breakthrough study

Scientists studying a form of bone cancer that took the life of a "super strong" five-year-old girl say they have had a potential breakthrough.

New nanoparticle cancer therapy takes a step closer to clinical trials

A tumour-promoting protein, (SK1), was identified in prostate and breast cancer cells which reduces the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

CRUK Start Codon webinar series

Start Codon and Cancer Research UK are launching a series of free, online seminars to support and develop an entrepreneurial culture among cancer researchers in the UK.

NCRN Virtual Seminar: Stuart Farrow, Cancer Research UK

Innovative drug discovery alliances to maximise patient benefit in immuno-oncology

NCRN Seminar: Dr Charlie Massie, University of Cambridge

Strategies for improving the diagnostic pathway for Prostate Cancer: leveraging single cell analysis and methods to improve detection in liquid biopsies

Omega-3 fats do not protect against cancer

Increased consumption of omega 3 fats is widely promoted globally because of a common belief that it will protect against, or even reverse, diseases such as cancer, heart attacks and stroke.

Research reveals why some prostate cancers are more aggressive

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have discovered why some prostate cancers are more aggressive, spread to different parts of the body, and ultimately cause death.

Big C announces new cancer research and equipment grants

Norfolk and Waveney cancer charity, Big C, has announced their latest round of grant awards for cancer research and equipment projects taking place at the Norwich Research Park totalling over £332,000

UEA scientists awarded £100K to study whether gut bacteria could help prevent spread of breast cancer

Norwich scientists to study whether certain antibiotics and probiotics could help prevent the spread of breast cancer, following new funding by Breast Cancer Now