📢 Our fantastic trustee and long-standing Blood Cancer UK researcher Prof Christine Harrison has been awarded an OBE for her contributions to childhood leukaemia research 👏 Read more 👇 bit.ly/4gzxMr7

Announcing UK Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) Forum 2025 course - Second session- 7pm tomorrow. Featured speakers: Dr. S Williams and F Forconi Still time to register Follow link for details ukcllforum.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Amatta Mirandari. Well done Amatta, who defended her PhD yesterday at the Centre for Cancer Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine (Southampton Medicine). She did a brilliant job, that included an excellent presentation to her colleagues, family and friends.

Immunotherapy Advances Journal (British Society for Immunology) has just published a review article from our group (with Rosa Alves Martins, Mehmet Tekin & Mark Cragg) Curing Cancer UoS Southampton Medicine / MRC DTP Translational Biomedical Sciences on targeting tumour-associated macrophages: academic.oup.com/immunotherapya…

Our lab's latest article just published Clinical & Experimental Immunology. Using antibody engineering & preclinical models, we show a close cooperation between activating & inhibitory FcγRs helps boost immune responses following immunization. Curing Cancer UoS Southampton Medicine BioInvent International academic.oup.com/cei/article/do…

Just arrived at this years #EHA2025 congress in #Milan, looking forward to an exciting event.

Huge congratulations to Professor Alberto Orfao from the University of Salamanca, on being the recipient of the years EHA Research Excellence Award. I have collaborated with Alberto for five years and have always found him to be a helpful, charming and insightful collaborator.

Great to catch up with some Barts Cancer Centre alumni at this years EHA meeting in Milan. Great to see you all, and hopefully it won’t be 20 years until the next time we all meet up.

✅👏 Enhorabuena a Orfao Lab, Vicedirector del Centro de Investigación del Cáncer/CSIC-USAL-FICUS , por el Premio a la Excelencia Investigadora 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ de la European Hematology Association Asociación Europea de Hematología. Parabéns Alberto‼️ Universidad de Salamanca CSIC

🚨🚨Program is out for our Autumn UK Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) Forum clinical sciences meeting. OCTOBER 3rd 2025 Cavendish Conference centre - London Registration is now open

Brilliant afternoon with my colleagues in the School of Cancer Sciences, UoSCancerResearch, University of Southampton News, celebrating a hugely successful academic year, with a summer party on campus, food, drinks, a quiz and photos. I hope everyone enjoyed it.

Kicking off the 8th ECRIN-M3 consortium meeting! Excited to share the outcomes of our collaboration and enjoy time with great colleagues and friends. Orfao Lab Francesco Forconi Forconi_Lab James Batchelor Jon Strefford Centro de Investigación del Cáncer/CSIC-USAL-FICUS The Clinical Informatics Research Unit University of Southampton

In the beautiful city of Salamanca again, for the 6th EARLY CANCER RESEARCH INITIATIVE NETWORK ON MBL meeting. A very interesting meeting, with great science… even a chance for Helen and I to meet up with an old friend, Ana, who spent a few months in our lab 15 years ago!

Goodbye to Salamanca, as the 6th EARLY CANCER RESEARCH INITIATIVE NETWORK ON MBL meeting finishes. Hugely successful meeting, thanks to everyone in Salamanca for organising such a useful and enjoyable meeting. Until next time!

It was wonderful to join our students graduation from medicine on Wednesday. A super hot day by UK standards, and the robes were pretty warm, but an amazing day. Congrats to all the students, but in particular those from my lab, Amatta, Louise and Anna.

CHLOE KELLY, SHOUT IT LOUD!!! England are EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS! 🏆 #BBCFootball #WEURO2025

Excited as this years iwCLL conference begins. #iwCLL2025

Our Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Helen Parker, gave an amazing platform presentation at this years iwCLL, iwCLL . Her talk focused on the importance of genomic complexity in CLL. Well done Helen.

Super proud of our postdoc, Helen Parker, who won the best abstract prize at this year’s iwCLL conference in Krakow. #iwCLL2025

Brilliant to see Chris Pepper present his work of NFKB PROTAC development for the treatment of CLL, at this years iwCLL conference, #ukCLL2025. Very important at and interesting work.