Congratulations to Charles Earnshaw who has been awarded the Edith Paterson Prize for 2024!
Professor Caroline Dive
Interim Director | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Each year we award this prize in recognition of the most impressive scientific achievements by a student, post-doc or scientific officer and is named after Edith Paterson, who together with her husband Ralston Paterson, made pioneering discoveries in cancer research and treatment in Manchester. The Paterson Building is named after them.
Charles is a Clinical Fellow in the Cancer Inflammation and Immunity group led by Santiago Zelenay, which focuses on investigating the mechanisms underlying natural and therapy-induced tumour immunity.
During his PhD, Charles discovered an intriguing and counterintuitive immune-dependent tumour-inhibitory effect of glucocorticoids in melanoma which he described recently in an outstanding pre-viva seminar, and which forms the basis of a first author paper to be published in the coming months.
We are also delighted to announce that Charles has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship to continue to develop his research career and has already secured some additional external funding to support this. In keeping with his exciting discoveries coupled with his excellent communication skills, he was awarded the best talk award at the British Society of Immunology ‘Tumour Immunology Conference’ earlier this year.
We wish Charles all the best in the next stage of his career and look forward to more exciting research to come out of his ongoing collaboration with the Cancer Inflammation and Immunity group.