Cambridge Paediatric ECMC
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The Cambridge Paediatric ECMC team is based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital . The Cambridge Biomedical Campus has grown up around Addenbrooke’s hospital, combining world-class research, patient care and education on a single site. Construction, on the campus, is about to start for Cambridge Children’s Hospital and the team will relocate there...
Southampton Paediatric ECMC
Centre
The Southampton Paediatric ECMC has particular expertise in early phase immunotherapy and neuroblastoma trials. The centre is leading the MINIvAN trial , an early phase transatlantic immunotherapy study for children with relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma. Our patient population Southampton Children’s Hospital covers a population of over 3.7 million, and routinely...
Spotlight: EC Trial Finder
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Experimental Cancer Trial Finder (EC Trial Finder) was successfully launched to the first limited user group on 15th November 2018 and will be available for the rest of the ECMC network in December 2018.
Working with Industry
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Introduction: The Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres Network acts as a single point of entry to a UK wide network of scientific and clinical experts to help deliver early-phase innovative trials, driving the development of cancer treatments of tomorrow. We have access to a pan-age patient population through our integration with...
JING: Training the Next Generation 2019
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In January 2019 we held the seventh annual Junior Investigator Network Group (JING): Training the Next Generation event. Over 100 people from across the ECMC network came to the two-day residential meeting in Cardiff, to learn more about early-phase trial design.
ECMC Steering Committee 2019: what's the future of the network?
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In February we had the second ECMC Steering Committee. This Committee is a key part of the governance for the network and is designed to ensure that the funders and the network are getting appropriate and timely input on the current activity of the adult and paediatric networks and to...
Interview with Gareth Veal, head of the Newcastle Cancer Centre Pharmacology Group
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Gareth Veal discusses his team’s new therapeutic drug monitoring service, aiming to assist in the treatment particularly “hard-to-treat” childhood cancer patients.
Our Industry Case Studies
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Our industry partnerships are crucial to ensure patients in the UK gain access to innovative treatments at the earliest opportunity. Here are just a few examples of the recent partnerships between our network and industry: Cambridge ECMC’s Department of Oncology, the Department of Mathematics, and Microsoft Research are collaborating to...
ECMC Annual Network meeting 2019 - presentations
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The ECMC Annual Network meeting took place on Thursday 23 May 2019; below are the agenda, some of the presentations and ECMC posters from the meeting. Morning plenary session Agenda Update on the ECMC network - Aoife Regan, ECMC Programme Office Parallel session 1: Reverse translation capabilities and potential from...
ECMC Annual Network Meeting 2019
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Almost 200 delegates from across the ECMC Network came together on 23 May 2019 for a chance to hear updates from the Programme Office, network with other ECMC members, and participate in some interesting discussions on complex trial design and patient referral. Read our round up and gain access to the presentations from the day.