Seminar series
Held every 3-4 months, our seminars showcase brain tumour research across the Virtual Institute membership and provide a networking opportunity for teams in Cambridge.
All seminars are also available as a list on the University of Cambridge's talks.cam website
A list of past seminars is available below.
Past seminars
Wed 18th January 2022, 12-1pm
Friederike Hesse | “Imaging response of glioblastoma to radiotherapy using 2H MRI measurements of [2,3-2H2]fumarate metabolism”
Mr Richard Mair | “The Minderoo Precision Brain Tumour Programme”
Wed 20th October 2021, 12-1pm
Mr Richard Mair | “Fragmentation patterns and personalized sequencing of cell-free DNA in urine and plasma of glioma patients”
Dr Omer Bayraktar | “GBM-space: Discovering how the tumour microenvironment regulates glioblastoma cell states”
Wed 14th April 2021, 12-1pm
Mr Stephen Price | ‘Precision Surgery for Glioblastomas’
Dr Petra Hamerlik | "Functional Interplay Between Aberrant DNA Repair & Cellular Hierarchies in Glioblastoma"
Tues 26th January 2021, 12-1pm
Dr Pau Creixell | "Novel approaches to therapeutically target tyrosine kinases driving brain, breast and lung cancer”
Prof David Rowitch & Prof Peter Hutchinson | "Intra-operative MRI for brain tumours"
Tues 6th October 2020, 12-1pm
Dr Manav Pathania | “Developing new models of mutant histone-driven paediatric gliomas”
Dr Rafa Romero Garcia | “Translating neuroimaging and connectomic findings for understanding cognitive recovery in glioma patients”
Wed 1st April 2020, 9-9.30am
Children's Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence (CBTCE) Breakfast Meeting - co-hosted by the Paediatric Cancer and Neuro-oncology Programmes at CRUK Cambridge Centre
Tues 21st Jan 2020, 4-5pm
George Malliaras | EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers
Chao Li | Characterising Heterogeneity of Glioblastoma using Multi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Wed 9th Oct 2019, 4-5pm
Rohit Sinha | Applying Cognitive Neuroscience methods in Cancer
Ana Rossi | Mechanisms linking hypoxia, type 2 IP3 receptors and invasiveness in glioma cells
Wed 26th June 2019, 4-5pm
Raj Jena | The edge of the cloud - machine learning and mapping glioma on MR imaging
Harry Bulstrode | Targeting Glioma Stem Cells using Zika Virus