Posts tagged 'cancer research'

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Luisa Chocarro

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Luisa Chocarro

Congratulations to Luisa Chocarro - the latest winner of our monthly Early Career Scientist Grant! We spoke to Luisa to find out more about her oncology research, and she told us how the grant will fund her upcoming trip to the ESMO Congress 2024…

Inspiring Science Stories: Brotherhood, Bravery & Brain Tumour Research

Inspiring Science Stories: Brotherhood, Bravery & Brain Tumour Research

PhD candidate George Michalopoulos was inspired to pursue a career in Glioblastoma research after watching his younger brother go through a brain tumour diagnosis. In this article, he tells his inspiring story and shares his hopes for the future of brain cancer research…

Interviews with Scientists: Gulnar Abdullayeva

Interviews with Scientists: Gulnar Abdullayeva

It’s time for another interview with a fascinating scientist, and this week we chatted to Gulnar Abdullayeva of the University of Oxford! Gulnar is the recent recipient of an Azerbaijan Presidential Award for Youth, and we wanted to find out more about the award, as well as her current research and her plans for the future!

Meet Our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2022 Highly Commended Nominees: Uloma Beauty Elvis-Offiah

Meet Our Lab Heroes Awards™ 2022 Highly Commended Nominees: Uloma Beauty Elvis-Offiah

Let’s meet another of our Lab Heroes AwardsTM 2022 Highly Commended nominees! We chatted to Uloma Beauty Elvis-Offiah of the University of Benin about her current research on gastrointestinal cancers, her female role models, and the importance of celebrating women in STEM!

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Bryony Kennedy

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Bryony Kennedy

We’re delighted to introduce another of our Early Career Scientist Grant winners! Bryony Kennedy is a PhD student at Queen’s University, Belfast, and she told us how our $500 grant will help to fund an overseas symposia trip!

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Palanivel Kandasamy

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Palanivel Kandasamy

We’re delighted to introduce our next Early Career Scientist Grant winner! Palanivel Kandasamy is a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Bern in Professor Matthias Hediger’s lab, and he told us how our $500 grant will help to support his career.

Interviews with Scientists: Rachael Guenter

Interviews with Scientists: Rachael Guenter

In the next in our Interviews with Scientists series we spoke to Rachael Guenter, a cancer researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Rachel told us about her experiences working in both academia and industry, and shares words of advice for young scientists.

Interviews with Scientists: Jonas Teuwen

Interviews with Scientists: Jonas Teuwen

In the next in our Interviews with Scientists series we spoke to Jonas Teuwen of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. He recently spoke openly about living with bipolar disorder and the impact this had on his PhD studies. We were moved by his honesty and wanted to find out more about his thoughts on the subject…

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Shaymaa Bahnassy

Meet our Early Career Scientist Grant Winner Shaymaa Bahnassy

Congratulations to our latest Early Career Scientist Grant winner! Shaymaa Bahnassy is a postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown University, and she told us how the grant will support her career.

Interviews with Scientists: Beata Mierzwa

Interviews with Scientists: Beata Mierzwa

In the next in our Interviews with Scientists series, we spoke to molecular biologist Beata Mierzwa who has found a unique way to combine her artistic flair with her passion for science, creating fashion, artwork, and even a science-themed video game!