This weekend I’ll be heading to Liverpool for the UK’s biggest annual cancer conference. The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference attracts hundreds of scientists, charity representatives, regulators and policy makers to discuss the latest in cancer research.
It’s going to be a busy few days at the conference for staff here at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. ICR researchers are speaking in many of the different sessions, several are receiving awards (keep an eye out for more information on our website), and Professor Naz Rahman, Head of the ICR’s Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, will be giving the final plenary lecture of the conference on realising the promise of cancer predisposition genes.
I’m looking forward to a busy conference and I’ll be blogging here about the key messages and some of the talks, so watch this space over the next week. You can also follow details of the conference via twitter using #NCRI2013.
Science Talk
With our Science Talk blog, we hope to lift the lid on the black box that is the ICR: to show you inside our labs, to introduce you to a few of the people here who make the discoveries, and to allow them to tell some of the stories behind the science. We try to put our discoveries in a wider scientific context, and give an idea of how our science is actually done. We also give you the view from the ICR of important developments in the wider world of cancer research.
01/11/13 - by Eva Sharpe