Spotlight: Cindy Sears on the power of pre-clinical models and learnings from global health
In July, OPTIMISTICC's Dr Cindy Sears and her team shared a new mouse model which both mimics human biology with impressive accuracy and sheds light on immunotherapy resistance. Here, she discusses the significance of the study and how her background in infectious disease facilitates her work in the microbiome field.
Collaborating across disciplines: learnings from our first global data analysis workshop
In July, we held our first community workshop on data analysis. Here, astronomer Dr Nic Walton (IMAXT) describes the value of uniting across disciplines and his key takeaways from the session.
A COSMIC catalogue of cancer data, with Mutographs' Ellie Dunstone
PhD student Ellie Dunstone discusses how COSMIC - the world's largest and most comprehensive resource for exploring somatic mutations in cancer - supports the Mutographs team's work.
Watch our interview with Professor Mike Stratton on how the Mutographs team are uniting genomicists with epidemiologists to understand more about mutational signatures in cancer.
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Meet IMAXT's new collaborator, John Marioni
Dr John Marioni is a senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, an associate faculty member at the Sanger Institute and, as of March 2021, the head of research at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
We (virtually) sat down with John to find out more about his work and what excites him joining the IMAXT programme.
