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Lian Ni Lee, Julie Mead, Catherine Pickering and Annelise Soulier share their experiences of building companies to develop new cancer treatments.

Insights from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, from the biggest deals to the hottest trends.

Our colleagues across Cancer Research Horizons share the opportunities and threats that 2025 may bring to their areas of expertise.

Shefali Bohra and Debra Babalola share how they put their users at the centre of their creative process to help detect signs of breast cancer.

The Functional Genomics Centre generates vast amounts of CRISPR data every day. Here’s how they’re building a database to make sense of it all.

CEO and founder of Carcinotech, Ishani Malhotra, talks about what it's like to start your own company and why Edinburgh is a great place to do it in.

GambitBio's co-founder, Tiffany Ma, explains how they're developing an at-home lateral flow test to screen for the most common cancers.

CEO and co-founder Rory Ryan explains how PentaBind uses generative AI to develop aptamers that could target previously undruggable human proteins.

Investors in residence, Genghis Lloyd Harris and Jonathan Tobin discuss the current market and how their roles fit into it.

Hear from Lars Erwig, Director of Cancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development on the need for global collaboration in clinical trials.

To mark #IWD24, hear from some of our scientists about their professional journeys and advice for women embarking on a career in STEM.

Hear from CEO, Iain Foulkes, about the power of data partnerships.

Hear from Sophia Karagiannis and James Spicer on their journey to get the first IgE anti-cancer drug into humans.

Read our reflections on the Government's independent review of the UK spinout landscape.

Read about MOv18, the first IgE antibody to enter clinical development.

Find out how single-cell CRISPR capability advances drug discovery through genotype to phenotype correlation.

Our medicinal chemists review the hydroxylation of steroids, detailing discoveries in the beautiful, complicatedly chiral world of steroid chemistry.

Read about the DETERMINE trial and how it aims to address the limited treatments available for people with rare cancers.

Learn how cancer patient-derived organoids from Japan’s Fukushima Medical University became the latest tech to be made available via CancerTools.org.

Five innovations from the world’s greatest minds in microbiology, astronomy and programming that could transform the way we deal with cancer.

Our Chief Business Officer, Tony Hickson, explores how we contribute to the economic impact of Cancer Research UK-funded research in the UK.

The story of gamma delta T cells from discovery to clinical trials

From discovery to translation - the story of pioneering therapeutics targeting the damage repair mechanism of DNA polymerase theta in cancers.

The OPTIMAM project’s mammogram collection is heralding a new dawn of machine-learning-based cancer detection.

How scientific expertise, funding and entrepreneurship came together for the development of an antibody-drug conjugate targeting lymphoma

Guided by Cancer Research Horizons in collaboration with Roche, Cancer Research UK scientists develop a new antibody that can target CD25.

Monika Gullerova is a scientist first and foremost. She saw an opportunity to develop her research idea to have real-world impact.

Jason Mellad co-founded Start Codon to support teams in translating their research ideas through seed funding, guidance and access to partners.

Anna Perdix Rosell co-founded biotech start-up, Sixfold Bioscience, in the hopes of addressing the challenge of delivering drugs to cancer cells.

Read how researchers supported by Cancer Research UK deciphered how blocking DNA repair could expose a weak point in the biology of cancer cells.

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