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Dr Helena Kelly, Dr Róisín Dwyer and Dr. Adriele Prina Mello enjoying our coffee break. On the 23rd of October we had our 4th Cancer Research Club in TBSI, Trinity College Dublin. The focus of this event was "Engineering Cancer Therapies" and we had an amazing afternoon of talks with over 50 attendees and 6 great speakers providing us with an insight into the latest advances in nanoresearch, engineering, microvesicles and immunological regulation.A huge than …

Last Wednesday saw our first international event, the inaugural Cancer Research Club, take place in the Conway Institute in UCD, Dublin, Ireland. The event was organised by Dr. Antoinette Perry and Dr. Joanne Lysaght. window.SHOGUN_IMAGE_ELEMENTS = window.SHOGUN_IMAGE_ELEMENTS || new Array(); window.SHOGUN_IMAGE_ELEMENTS.push({ hoverImage: '', uuid: 's-f9da9703-261b-4d54-827d-94a906531200' }) Dr. Antoinette Perry and Dr. Joanne Lysag …

Our Cancer Research Club symposium series continued on Wednesday afternoon, at Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI), Dublin, Ireland. The Bouchier-Hayes lecture theatre was at maximum capacity with over 60 scientists from all major universities and Institutes in Ireland coming together to network around the theme of “The Tumor Microenvironment”.This event was organised by Dr. Tríona Ní Chonghaile & Dr. Helena Bonner from RCSI who provided a great series of lectures and invited guests.Our f …

By Shane Houston, PhD Candidate Queen’s University BelfastCancer is an age old adversary of the human race. This out-of-control growth of abnormal cells has been a shadow over human health throughout history. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer stretches back to Egypt and the time of the pharaohs [1]. As time has marched on, so has our understanding of the disease, a field which came to be known as Oncology [1]. Early attempts at treating the disease most often involved surgical …