
SPECIFICANCER
@specificancer
Dissecting the Tumour Specificity of Cancer Drivers
@CRUKresearch Grand Challenge team funded in partnership with @TheMarkFdn
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https://www.specificancer.org/ 09-04-2019 15:24:56
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To prevent the spread of #COVID19, HHMI Investigator Steve Elledge’s lab has emptied out. However, he, Nouran Abdelfattah (Nouran Abdelfattah) (shown), & six other researchers have continued working in person, under new safety rules, studying the coronavirus: bit.ly/2XlVyAZ


PhDs Joep Beumer and @jeltevdvaart from the group of Hans Clevers set up collaboration with to show that #SARSCoV2 may infect cells in the intestine. Just out in Science Magazine!


#CancerGrandChallenges partnership between Cancer Research UK and NCI has been ceremonially signed. “The two largest funders of cancer research unite to define a new era in research and discovery for the future benefit of patients with cancer.” – Dr. Iain Foulkes Iain Foulkes Dr. Kimryn Rathmell


Meet the #CancerGrandChallenges teams #SPECIFICANCER led by Prof Stephen Elledge are unravelling the riddle of #tissuespecificity in cancer, to ensure cancer types are best matched to therapies for increased #patientbenefit. Co-funded by The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. cancergrandchallenges.org/teams/specific…



You don't need to be a cancer researcher to lead a #CancerGrandChallenges team - we're looking for new thinking from diverse teams to address our challenges. Download our Expression of Interest guidelines to find out how you can apply your expertise: cancergrandchallenges.org/researchers

Amy Schade and Karen Cichowski of our SPECIFICANCER team discuss the importance of mentorship. Amy joined Karen's lab (Brigham and Women's Hospital) as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019. Find out more about their relationship: bit.ly/3cw4o5h


The Kevin Haigis Lab and Peter J Park labs show that KRAS mutations across multiple cancer types have allele- and tissue-specific mutagenic origins, comutation patterns, and dependency interactions go.nature.com/3lHkoFv #cancerresearch Cancer at Nature Portfolio


Check our second advocate/scientific team's conversation video. Patient advocate, @helenkmatthews interviewed Owen Sansom 🏳️🌈, a professor of @CRUK_BI and the University of Glasgow. Owen Sansom 🏳️🌈 talked about how he has approached the team's scientific goal. specificancer.org/team-conversat…

How do mutants win the game of clones? 🏆🤷 In this week's nature, Dustin Flanagan @CRUK_BI + Owen Sansom 🏳️🌈, with the great Katajisto Lab and @SPECIFICANCER team, find out how APC mutations cause #cancer in the #gut ... with help from NOTUM A 🧵by Dustin 1/11


Congratulations to SPECIFICANCER and Katajisto Lab on their latest discovery in nature! The team identified the molecule Notum as a key player in the early stages of apc-driven #colorectalcancer. - bit.ly/3nrHyAN Owen Sansom 🏳️🌈 @CRUK_BI #specificancer

Fascinating latest findings from @cancergrand SPECIFICANCER team exploring how cancers in different parts of the body use unique strategies to avoid attack by the immune system. This innovative thinking could lead to more effective cancer treatments cancergrandchallenges.org/news/escape-im…
