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The first participants in a new landmark clinical trial for the “pill-on-a-thread” have completed their tests this week. The BEST4 Screening trial will be used to decide whether the capsule device should be used in a national screening programme for oesophageal cancer. The capsule sponge, developed over more than ten years...

We are thrilled to report that Prof Antonis Antoniou, Professor of Cancer Risk Prediction in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, has been named as the 2024 of winner of the Don Listwin award for outstanding contribution to early cancer detection. Announced last night (23rd October) at the Early Detection of...

We were thrilled to welcome nearly 200 delegates at the 2024 Early Cancer Institute Symposium yesterday, 1 st October. Director Rebecca Fitzgerald introduced the event with a screening of the film made by the University’s external communications team to support their current cancer campaign. The short video features a...

This summer we have been delighted to host two research interns in the Early Cancer Institute. Veronia Nasralla, a third-year pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, joined the Muñoz Espín Group while Suraksha Jayakumar, a second-year biomedical science student at the University of Warwick, was...