Professor Axel Behrens elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 21 May 2024 Professor Axel Behrens, Scientific Director of the Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre and leader of the Cancer Stem Cell Group at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship by the Academy of Medical Sciences. Find out more Show/Hide
High-performance computing facilitates new radiotherapy approach that could improve therapy for hard-to-treat cancers 30 Oct 2023 Researchers have used methods from high-performance computing to significantly reduce the time it takes to reconstruct images acquired through four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (4D-MRI). Find out more Show/Hide
Major study reveals how pancreatic cancer changes its ‘diet’ to survive 17 May 2023 Pancreatic cancer cells can change their ‘diet’ to keep growing, by switching from the sugar glucose to a back-up fuel called uridine, new research reveals. Find out more Show/Hide
Hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer hijacks immune system and could be targeted with immunotherapies 03 Sep 2020
Tumour-liquifying microbubbles and immune cell tracking: UK’s first convergence science centre officially launches 29 Jul 2019