The Royal Society Francis Crick Lecture 2022 – Professor Serena Nik-Zainal
DNA graffiti: Mutation patterns in human cancer and how to use them in medicine
Date: Thursday 12 January, 6.30 –7.30pm
Venue: The Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
ONLINE: The talk will be livestreamed, to register visit www.royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/01/francis-crick/
Serena Nik-Zainal (Early Cancer Institute and CUH) was awarded the Royal Society's Francis Crick Medal in 2022. In this lecture, she will describe how her team have explored the extraordinary DNA graffiti that has been seen in human cancers, using a combination of big data computational approaches and systematic experimental methods. She will provide an account of how they have designed algorithms that could be used to interpret cancer genomes for clinical purposes and how they have taken steps towards clinical validation studies for her algorithms. Professor Nik-Zainal will touch on her team’s recent endeavour, reporting the largest cohort of WGS cancers worldwide of nearly 20,000 patients recruited via the NHS. She will end by bringing the audience through a selection of real cancer WGS patient stories.
All are welcome to attend in person or online.
More information and registration, visit www.royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/01/francis-crick/