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Following the success of 2022’s meeting in Camogli, members of the PanProstate Cancer Group (PPCG) reconvened in Madrid in April 2023 to share their progress and enrich their collaborations. The April 2023 meeting was expertly organised and graciously hosted by Geoff Macintyre and his group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). The team would especially like to thank Bárbara Hernando, a postdoctoral researcher in the Macintyre group, for her tireless work organsing the conference and liaising with IT support to ensure that the hybrid meeting went without a hitch.

Marian Love, a postdoctoral researcher in the Wedge group, shares her thoughts on the Spatial Biology UK 2023 congress.

Members of the Wedge group contribute to the delivery of the NCI’s workshop: Emerging Approaches For Tumor Analyses in Epidemiological Studies

Chay Paterson tells us about is new grant.

Looking back at the Wedge group’s achievements in 2022.

Three postdocs in the Wedge group reflect on their experiences developing content for the University’s new MSc in Transformative Oncology.

After countless zoom meetings the PanProstate Cancer Group (PPCG) held its first in person meeting in two years in Italy mid-October 2022.

Maria Jakobsdottir, a postdoctoral researcher in the Wedge group, was selected to present both a poster and a short presentation at the Institut Curie’s 5th annual Systems Biology of Cancer course at the end of September. The Wedge group would like to congratulate Maria on being awarded best oral presentation by a postdoc for her talk titled: Genotype-Phenotype Interactions: Multiomics of Hypoxia in Prostate Cancer.

As of 20th April I have moved to the University of Manchester where I will be based within the Manchester Cancer Research Centre. In addition to continuing our research programme in Tumour Evolution and Heterogeneity, we will be investigating the genomics of cancer in previously understudied patient groups, including breast cancer patients in Nigeria and non-smoking patients with lung cancer.

The papers are out! Today’s Nature edition is dedicated Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium publications. Be sure to check them out.