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MRI scan of a brain tumour showing variations in inositol concentration

School of Cancer Sciences

An internationally-renowned centre for translational cancer research and cancer education  

The School of Cancer Sciences encompasses most of the academic and clinical cancer research within the University and includes the prestigious Cancer Research UK Birmingham Cancer Centre.

The School also has a very strong representation from the overlapping disciplines of Clinical Trials, Pathology, Surgery and NMR.

Cancer Sciences staff make an active contribution to MBChB and BMedSc degree courses and there is also a comprehensive postgraduate programme with opportunities for taught and research based study.

Head of School: Professor Paul Moss.

Latest headlines

ť Cancer Research UK fund new research investigating recognition of tumour cells by the immune system05/02/2010

Dr Ben Willcox and his research team have successfully obtained funding from CRUK for a project grant to study how an unconventional group of T-cells called gamma delta T-cells recognise tumour cells.

ť New funding for Retinoblastoma research09/11/2009

Cancer Sciences researchers have received funding from the Birmingham Children's Hospital Research Foundation and from the UK Childhood Eye Cancer Trust to investigate new diagnostic methods which may help to reduce the need for removal of the eye in children with retinoblastoma.

ť A novel function for the DNA repair protein, hMDC1 in the regulation of metaphase to anaphase transition.06/11/2009

Dr Grant Stewart and colleagues have recently reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry that the double strand break repair protein, hMDC1 (human mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1), regulates normal metaphase to anaphase transition.

ť MRC funds new research into DNA repair mechanisms10/07/2009

New research in the field of DNA repair may improve our understanding of a range of severe developmental disorders such as Seckel Syndrome, primary microcephaly and primordial dwarfism.

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Cancer Research UK 'Super Cancer Centre' in Birmingham.
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Cancer Sciences Events

Seminar

Influences of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor variation on human health and survival”

Professor Peter Parham

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

Cancer Sciences Seminar Room
1pm, Mon 8th Feb.