An international collaboration to investigate the survival of skin cancer patients between scientists from LIMM, Europe and North America is set to begin. Click here for further information (February 2012).
The Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, which has a core centre in LIMM, is now open to the UK and Irish breast cancer research community. The Tissue Bank has been operating on a small scale over the past year but the doors are now open to applicants from across the UK and Ireland thanks to the hard work and commitment of the Leeds team and their collaborating partners elsewhere in the UK. Hot on the heels of the opening of the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank, the Leeds PI, Dr Valerie Speirs of the Division of Cancer and Pathology, visited the Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis, USA. Her visit coincided with the Komen Tissue Bank’s unique "Super Cure" event where around 700 women volunteers attended the IU Simon Cancer Center over 2 days to donate samples of healthy breast tissue. It is hoped her visit will lead to greater collaborative effort between both Tissue Banks (January 2012).
Dr Nick West (Pathology & Tumour Biology) has been named as University of Leeds Postgraduate Researcher of the year (December 2011). Full details are available here.
Professor Colin Johnson (Ophthalmology & Neuroscience) is working with an international team of researchers on the function of muscle stem cells, using next-generation DNA sequencing techniques (December 2011). Click here for the full story.
Dr Laura Coates, an honorary research fellow in the Division of Rheumatic & Musculoskeletal Disease in LIMM, has won the UK Scopus Award in Biological Sciences 2011 (November 2011). Full details are available here.
Professor Andy Hanby from the Division of Cancer Studies & Pathology in LIMM is leading research at the Leeds Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) on a pioneering DNA database to help develop the next generation of cancer treatments. Click here for full details of the research (November 2011).