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As the UK’s first World Health Organisation age-friendly city region with a long and distinguished history in developing a leading research and development base for healthcare innovation, Manchester demonstrates its commitment to identifying and implementing solutions to support healthy ageing in a…
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Please can you describe your various roles within Greater Manchester’s Cancer Research eco-system? My main role is as a Principal Investigator within the Experimental Cancer Medicine Team (ECMT), which is part of Manchester’s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC). I also lead the Advanced…
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1. Rich in Heritage, Rich in Innovation Manchester has been at the forefront of cancer research for over a century. Pioneer nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford performed his pivotal experiments in Manchester, the birthplace of nuclear physics, between 1914 and 1919, becoming…
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Solid tumours have different amounts of oxygen and low levels (hypoxia) are associated with resistance to treatment and a poor prognosis. Around a half of solid tumours will be hypoxic, which reduces the efficacy of surgery, radiotherapy, and many chemotherapeutic agents. Conversely, there is likely…
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Sarah is Head of the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester, which is home to nearly 2,000 students and staff. She was the UK Biomedical Materials champion for The Royce Institute of a £235million UK government investment for advanced materials since April 2017 until April 2021. In…
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Based at Citylabs 2.0, the world-class hub for health innovation and part of Europe’s largest clinical academic campus, QIAGEN is a worldwide provider of molecular sample and assay technologies; working on diagnostics development to determine the effectiveness of specific drugs in individual…
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International Women’s Day 2022 series #BreaktheBias Interview with Jacqueline Hughes Lundy Founder of Inspiring Women Awards, the Inspiring Young Women Foundation, Entrepreneur and Educator YOUR WORK AS FOUNDER OF INSPIRING WOMEN AWARDS PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR WOMEN IN THE NORTH TO BE RECOGNISED…
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