Novel models and methodologies in cancer research

Join us for a symposium about novel and alternative models and methodologies applicable to cancer research.

Organised by the leads of cancer research domain of discovery and translational science, Anestis Tsakiridis, Mariaelena Pierobon and John Snowden, in the Sheffield Centre for Cancer Research, in collaboration with the Bateson Centre for Disease Mechanisms, this event is a platform for academics and technical leads to showcase novel and alternative models and approaches that you might not know about in other faculties, particularly in Science and Engineering.

We hope you will leave the event with new ideas, collaborations and a clearer picture of the innovative models, methodologies and expertise available across the university to support your research objectives.  

Confirmed speakers and broad topic areas include:

• Kyra Campbell (Biosciences): modeling intestinal cancer using flies
• Tanya Whitfield (Biosciences):modelling cancer using zebrafish
• Erin Cutts (Biosciences) ): biophysics/DNA structure
• Mark Watson (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals): talk about links between Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the Julia Garnham Centre
• Vanessa Hearnden (School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering): tissue engineered models
• Sarah Harrris (Mathematical and Physical Sciences): biomolecular simulation
• Gwendolen Reilly (School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering): biomaterials/biomechanics
• Helen Hipperson (Biosciences): the Genomics Laboratory Facility
• Phil Elks (Medicine & Population Health): the Bateson Centre for Disease Mechanisms

Who should join: University of Sheffield Principal Investigators, early career researchers and PhD students in any school/faculty as well as NHS-based staff with an interest in cancer research are welcome.  You may be actively engaged in cancer research or looking to explore opportunities and collaborations.  

Please register here.  Agenda to follow.

Queries?  Contact Rachel Corcoran, Cancer Research Strategy Manager r.corcoran@sheffield.ac.uk

Please note this will be an in-person event.