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News and Events

Welcome to the Cambridge Research Institute online News and Events section. This section aims to keep you up-to-date with all the Institute's science news as well as the latest research awards, and details of upcoming conferences and studies.

If you have a query about any of the news and event items below, please email cri@cancer.org.uk

Register for the Models and Mechanisms of Cancer conference
Registrations are invited to the Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference on Models and Mechanisms of Cancer which will be held on 18 June 2010...
Scientists shed new light on why pancreatic cancer drugs can fail
CRI scientists have discovered a new mechanism that may explain why pancreatic cancer patients are often resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment called gemcitabine...
Cracking the code to tamoxifen resistance
CRI scientists discover the molecular basis for tamoxifen response in breast cancer cells...
Genetic profiling for breast cancer on the horizon
Cambridge scientists reveal that tests to assess breast cancer susceptibility are a few years away...
Body's baking soda used to detect cancer early
A chemical commonly called baking soda which is found naturally in the body could be used to detect cancer with magnetic resonance imaging...
Knighthood honour for Bruce Ponder
Congratulations to Bruce Ponder on being awarded a Knighthood in the New Year's Honours...
CRI team runners-up in Biotechnology YES 2007
The Institute's team place second at the recent competition...
CRI young entrepreneurs in Biotechnology YES finals
CRI's young entrepreneurs team has won a place in the Biotechnology YES final round...
Cambridge Cancer Centre launched
The launch of the innovative Cambridge Cancer Centre was marked with an exciting symposium featuring David Livingston and other leading experts in cancer research