The winners of the 2017 Greater Manchester Clinical Research Awards were revealed during an evening of celebration on Thursday 9 November. Staff from across the region’s Trusts and GP practices gathered in Manchester city centre for the fifth-annual ceremony to toast excellence in health research delivery. Individuals and teams were...

It has been yet another busy year for the Stratified Medicine Programme (SMP2) and the National Lung Matrix Trial (NLMT) so we would like to extend a huge thank you to all our colleagues for their continued hard work and support, as well as to all the patients and their families who signed up to this new, innovative trial.

Dr David Pinato has been awarded with a Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Bursary for his project - Phenotypic characterisation of the anti-tumour immune response following loco-regional therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma. Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) can enhance anti-tumour immunity in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, spontaneous immune responses to TACE are weak and...

Following interest expressed by centres across the ECMC network, a newly established ECMC Haematology Network Group, led by Cardiff ECMC, met for the first time on the 25 th October in the Hammersmith Hospital, with seven centres represented. A key objective of the group is to strengthen the representation of...