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Congratulations to Dr Dan Jacobson, postdoctoral researcher in Rebecca Fitzgerald’s group, who came away from the 2025 Organoids Are Us Symposium with the prize for the best poster presentation in the special award category for advancing animal-free research. Organoids Are Us is a Symposium featuring organoids, stem cells...

Congratulations to Dr Juliet Usher Smith (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) who, together with Prof Charlotte Coles (Department of Oncology) and Prof Marc Tischkowitz (Department of Clinical Genomics), has been awarded funding from the charity Prevent Breast Cancer for a pilot study to test the feasibility and...

University of Cambridge spinout Cyted Health, a leading gastrointestinal (GI) molecular diagnostics company, has announced a first close of $44 million in its Series B financing round to accelerate its ongoing US expansion. Cyted is pioneering the development of minimally invasive cell collection coupled with proprietary...

We are pleased to announce that Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge. Rebecca will officially take up her role on 1 st October 2025, for a period of five years. She succeeds Professor Richard Gilbertson who held the post for the past...