We are delighted to announce that Rebecca Lee from the Molecular Oncology group has won the Association of Cancer Physicians McElwain translational research prize for “Circulating tumour DNA as a tool to guide clinical decision making in melanoma”.

These annual awards were established by the friends and colleagues of Professor Tim McElwain to commemorate his extraordinary contribution to the development of Medical Oncology in the UK.

Rebecca has been a Clinical Fellow for the past four years and is currently finishing her PhD thesis. She is now back at the Christie Hospital and will apply for a clinical lecturer post to keep up the science.

Upon receiving the McElwain Prize, she says, “I’m really honoured to receive this prize and I want to thank everyone in the Institute for their support, especially Molecular Oncology, Molecular Biology Core Facility, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and the Biobank, who all helped me greatly with these projects”.

Rebecca has been invited to give a presentation at the National Cancer Research Institute Conference to be held in Glasgow later this year.

We are all incredibly proud of her achievements and wish her all the best in the next stage of her career.