Interviews
This month we spoke to Dr Rowan Miller as part of our series of interviews with JING alumni. Rowan is a medical oncology consultant specialising in gynaeoncology and early phase clinical trials at University College London and St. Bartholomew's hospitals. Rowan attended the JING: Training the Next Generation event in 2016 and shared how feedback she received at that meeting helped in her developing her trial. Read more.
For June's JING alumni interview we spoke to Dr Ik Shin Chin, who is currently undergoing a fellowship with the Advanced Immune Cell Therapy team in the Christie Hospital. She tells us a bit about her career journey and how she has benefited from being involved in JING. Read more.
This month as part of our JING alumni interview series we caught up with Dr David Guttery who is a Lecturer in Early Detection and Postgraduate Tutor at the Leicester Cancer Research Centre. Dave tells us about his experience of being involved in JING as a trainee, steering committee member and member of Faculty. Read more
Continuing our series of interviews with the JING alumni, this month we caught up with Associate Professor, Dr Harriet Walter, co-Lead at Leicester ECMC. She spoke about her career and involvement in the ECMC Junior Investigator Network Group (JING).
In the first in our planned series of interviews with members of the JING alumni we caught up with Professor Kienan Savage, co-Lead at Belfast ECMC. He talked to us about his career and experience of being involved in the ECMC Junior Investigator Network Group (JING)
The ECMC Programme Office recently welcomed Talia Macauley Kelly (left), Paediatric Impact & Engagement Manager and Rosie Richardson (right), Data Analyst to the team, increasing our capabilities to support the delivery of early-phase clinical trials sooner. Find out more about them.
We caught up with Angela Topping who recently became the Chair or the NHS R&D Forum. Angela has previously worked with the ECMC Programme Office/Network so we asked her about her new role and thoughts on how we can continue to work together.
A study that has found a new treatment that may be able to reverse drug resistance in prostate cancer patients by targeting myeloid cells was recently published in the journal Nature. We spoke to Professor Johann de Bono, Lead at The Institute of Cancer and Royal Marsden Hospital ECMC to find out more.
What is your role and which ECMC do you work at?
This childhood cancer awareness month we spoke with children's oncology research nurse, Lauren Butler and her team at Alder Hey (Liverpool paediatric ECMC) who told us why she chose to focus on paediatric oncology, what some of the opportunities are in the role and the team's proudest achievement.