Our Seminar Series - Upcoming & Historic

The CRUK Manchester Institute seminar series engages world-class researchers across the broad spectrum of cancer research and runs alongside a series of themed seminar programmes in the MCRC, The Christie and across the University of Manchester.

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Oglesby Lecture Theatre

Irmela Jeremias – Therapeutic Targeting of Functionally Diverse Leukemia Stem Cells

21st January 2025. 14:00

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Irmela Jeremias is Head of the “Research Unit Apoptosis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells” at Helmholtz Munich. She is a Pediatrician interested in improving treatment of children with acute leukemias.

Host: Georges Lacaud

Speaker: Irmela Jeremias

Oglesby Lecture Theatre

Filipe Pereira – In Vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming for Cancer Immunotherapy

28th January 2025. 14:00

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Filipe Pereira is a Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University in Sweden. He is recognised for his work at the interface of cellular reprogramming and immunology and for fostering development of reprogramming-based immunotherapies.

Host: Georges Lacaud

Speaker: Filipe Pereira

Oglesby Lecture Theatre

John Haanen – Learnings from TIL in melanoma for next gen cell therapies

11th February 2025. 14:00

John Haanen is a Group Leader at the NKI focussing on Cancer immunotherapy. The goal of his research is to find biomarkers that help select patients that are likely to respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors and develop novel strategies for cell therapy.

Host: Mark Williams

Speaker: John Haanen

Oglesby Lecture Theatre

Daniel Tennant – Proline metabolism and the tumour microenvironment – essential lessons from a non-essential amino acid

25th February 2025. 14:00

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Professor Daniel Tennant is a Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science. He uses stable isotope tracers to investigate changes in the use of nutrients in conditions where oxygen is limiting (hypoxia), or in the presence of genetic mutations that induce a hypoxia-like response.

Host: Kathryn Simpson

Speaker: Daniel Tennant

Oglesby Lecture Theatre

Gioacchino Natoli

4th March 2025. 14:00

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Gioacchino Natoli is a Group Leader in the Department of Experimental Oncology at the European Institute of Oncology. His primary scientific interests are in cell biology, transcription factors, genetics, regulation of gene expression and chromatin.

Host: Claus Jørgensen

Speaker: Gioacchino Natoli

Oglesby Lecture Theatre

Trevor Graham

25th March 2025. 14:00

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Trevor Graham is Director of the Centre for Evolution and Cancer at the ICR leads the Genomics and Evolutionary Dynamics laboratory. His research is focused on understanding the evolutionary dynamics of cancer development and translating this knowledge to improve clinical management of disease.

Host: Claus Jørgensen

Speaker: Trevor Graham

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