Interview with Professor Phil Quirke, Leeds ECMC
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As one of the Leeds ECMC team’s most established figure-heads, Professor Phil Quirke runs an active research group in bowel cancer as well as being the Academic Training Programme Director for West Yorkshire and the Chair of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Pathology Committee. His major interests are in...
JING: Training the Next Generation 2016
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In 2016 the Training the Next Generation event was hosted in Glagow. The event was very well attended, and attendees - both at trainee and faculty level - enjoyed their time and agreed that the networking and series of talks and activities were incredible useful. The video below captures the...
Funding available for junior investigators: ECCO-AACR-EORTC-ESMO Workshop
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We have made funding available to junior investigators in the ECMC Network to cover participation fees for the ‘ECCO, AACR, EORTC & ESMO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research course’, taking place in Zeist, Netherlands 18-24 June. We recognise this as an opportunity to develop junior clinical investigators within our network...
ECMC newsletter sign-up
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Want to sign up to receive our ECMC newsletter? Email us at ECMCadmin@cancer.org.uk Read our previous newsletters: December 2017 October 2017 August 2017 June 2017 (link is external) Apr 2017 Feb 2017 Dec 2016 Oct 2016 Aug 2016 Jun 2016 Apr 2016 Feb 2016 Nov 2015 Sep 2015 July 2015...
An introduction to early phase cancer trials training day - 29 February 2016
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Agenda (PDF) Introduction to the ECMC Network - Hannah Brown (PDF) Clinical development of a protocol - Lesley Robson (PDF) Preparing to run a trial - Alison Pass (PDF) Running the trial - Angela Little and Marivic Ricamara (PDF) End of study - Nicola Griffin-Teall and Karen Turner (PDF)
CTRad and Combinations Alliance Radiotherapy-Immunotherapy Workshop, March 2016
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In March this year, the NCRI Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Working Group ( CTRad ) and the ECMC Combinations Alliance organised a joint Radiotherapy (RT)-Immunotherapy Workshop. This workshop, led by Dr Richard Adams and Professor Tim Illidge, aimed to highlight the drug development requirements of the RT and immunotherapy communities...
Interview with Dr Karin Oien
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CM-Path is a cellular and molecular pathology initiative developed by the ECMC’s Cellular Molecular Pathology ( CMP ) Network Group. Then established by the NCRI, the initiative provides funding of £635,000 over five years with the aim of boosting pathology research in the UK. Dr Karin Oien of the CMP...
The Combinations Alliance will be at AACR
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The ECMC Combinations Alliance team will be at the American Society of Clinical Oncology ( ASCO ) meeting in Chicago on June 3-7, 2016. Come and say hello, or get in contact below! Cathy McDowell – cathy.mcdowell@cancer.org.uk
Audits and Inspections workshop - 19 April 2016
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Agenda Inspections: an academic perspective - Patricia Henley, LSHTM The audit programme - Elena Perez Del Notario, Cancer Research UK Planning the audit - Hilary Vitkus, Cancer Research UK and Tony Price, Manchester ECMC Successful conduct of the audit - Sara Yeats, Southampton ECMC Report and Responses - Rebecca Gallagher,...
Hear from our ECMC Nurses
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Alison Pass Andrew Barker Julie Burton Karen Turner Kay Wilson & Vivienne Wilson Nicola Griffin-Teall Ruth Boyd Debra Jowle & Angela Little