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The collective force of cancer research, outreach and care across the city of Oxford, translating discoveries into better care for cancer patients.
OCION 2024 Funding Scheme is live!
7 June 2024
The 2024 Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network (OCION) Funding Scheme is now open!
Oxford Cancer: 5 minutes with Professor Dame Molly Stevens
23 May 2024
Professor Dame Molly Stevens is John Black Professor of Bionanoscience in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. She recently moved her lab from Imperial College London to the University of Oxford and the Kavli Institute for nanoscience discovery, and she is joining the Oxford Cancer community.
Key exosome subtype in cancer progression identified
8 March 2023
Collaborative work from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and the Department of Oncology has revealed a potential new pathway to block the production of a specific group of exosomes made in the cell’s recycling system that can promote the growth of cancerous tumours.
Applied mathematical principles help identify immune cell spatial patterns in tumours
15 October 2021
A collaboration between mathematicians, pathologists and clinicians has shown how techniques from computational algebraic topology can be used to understand the spatial distributions of immune cell subtypes within tumours.
Groundbreaking FOCUS4 clinical trials report their findings at ASCO
8 June 2021
Principal Investigator Tim Maughan talks about the forward-thinking approach of the FOCUS4 cancer clinical trials and how they have helped shape the UK's fight against COVID-19
Prioritising COVID-19 research questions for the cancer population
6 April 2021
UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project (UKCCMP) lead Dr Lennard Lee talks to the NCRI about what clinician-patient collaboration and public involvement in research can do for cancer research and its outcomes
Oxford spin out influencing patient care world wide
27 March 2021
Oxford cancer research spin our Optellum has received FDA clearance for the world’s first AI-powered clinical decision support for early lung cancer diagnosis
New partnership enables access to state-of-the-art radiotherapy machine
25 March 2021
University of Oxford, OUH and GenesisCare have partnered to provide access to a new ViewRay MRIdian machine. It is the first of its kind in the UK and will help to improve challenging cancer treatment through faster, tailored radiotherapy.
Prof Andi Roy receives new award for immune-cell research
18 March 2021
Co-funded by Cancer Research UK and Children with Cancer UK, Andi is one of 5 to receive £1 million each to investigate children’s and young people’s cancers.
“The Oxford Classic” classification system uncovers new information about ovarian cancers
14 January 2021
Oxford cancer researchers have developed a new way of subtyping ovarian cancer that enables the accurate prediction of patient outcome and sheds light onto the role the immune system plays in ovarian cancer response to treatment.
What we can learn from cancer survivors
- Checkpoint Therapy
- Collaboration
- Drug Discovery
- Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
- Treatment
19 November 2020
Understanding how an individual survives cancer, and why they respond well to therapy, can be vital in identifying new therapeutic targets. A new project seeks to see why some advanced pancreatic cancer patients overcome the odds and respond positively to treatment.
Oxford Cancer alumni’s biotech success
11 November 2020
Scenic Biotech, co-founded by former Ludwig Oxford Cancer group leader Sebastian Nijman, collaborates with Roche group member Genentech in a $375m deal
Oxford lymphoid study group established
17 August 2020
The new Oxford Lymphoid Disorder Study Group, chaired by Dr Graham Collins, will be launched this September in Blood Cancer Awareness Month
QResearch researchers collaborate on two major cancer projects
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cancer Big Data
- Collaboration
- Diagnosis & Risk
- Lung Cancer
- Oesophageal Cancer
8 July 2020
Researchers in the Primary Care Epidemiology Group are joining two landmark projects to combine healthcare data and artificial intelligence to improve cancer diagnosis
Oxford University and Sichuan University form joint Centre for Gastrointestinal Cancer
15 May 2020
The University of Oxford-Sichuan University Huaxi Joint Centre for Gastrointestinal Cancer is a new international collaboration that seeks to develop an integrated gastrointestinal cancer plan through the exchanging of ideas and resources.