The Elizabeth Blackwell Institute's Bristol Cancer Research Network is delighted to be hosting its third annual Early Career Researchers' (ECRs) symposium on 18 June 2024.

The event will comprise oral and poster presentations from ECRs as well as keynote talks from invited speakers.  

Aims of the event:

The Bristol Cancer Research Network's Early Career Researchers' event is a fantastic opportunity for Early Career Researchers to write and submit an abstract and strengthen their presentation skills to an audience of their peers. This is the perfect platform to share your work, explore alternative methodologies, ask questions if you feel one aspect of your research would benefit from wider input, offer expertise and encourage wider collaborations. This is your chance to take part in discussions that could lead to greater inter- and multidisciplinary understanding of the research in question and its potential relevance to other areas. Early-stage proposals are welcomed. 

The event is open to all; if you are not presenting, please attend and support our ECRs to gain a better understanding of the incredible breadth of research taking place across the wider Cancer community. 

This event aims to foster the creation of new research directions, new ways of working, new ways to support and enable our academic and clinical communities, and new learning experiences. 

What is an early career researcher (ECR)?

We have no set definition for an ECR; we welcome submissions from undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, technicians, academic clinical fellows, recently appointed lecturers who are starting their independent career journey,  clinicians embarking on a research career, and anyone else who identifies as early career and feels they are starting a new phase in their career journey.

Call for abstracts: 

The Network's steering group invites all Early Career Researchers conducting cancer research to submit an abstract for consideration.

• PRIZES will be awarded for best oral and poster presentations; the number of prizes awarded will depend on the number of talks/posters, and at least one prize of £50 will be awarded for each.
• Download the abstract submission form: Cancer-ECR-abstract-form-June_2024 (Office document, 268kB)
• A‌bstract submission closes 7 May 2024 at 12 noon

• Register for your free place: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/red/registration-infection-and-immunity-early-career-researchers-event-2024
• Registration closes 5 June 2024 at 12 noon
• Attendance is FREE and includes a buffet lunch

Keynote speakers:

We are delighted to confirm our keynote speaker: 

Prof Simon Buczacki - Simon is Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery at Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford. His research focusses on understanding how colorectal (bowel) cancers evolve and how different mutations change the way cancer cells interact with each other and surrounding tissues, which aims to provide a mechanistic understanding of the implications of colorectal cancer heterogeneity. These experimental data may provide a clinical rationale for the trial of novel chemotherapy drugs or combinatorial treatments that ultimately could improve outcomes for patients with colorectal cancer.

Dr Ed Roberts - Ed is a Senior Lecturer at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute (formerly the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research) at the University of Glasgow. He and his team are working to understand how the immune response to cancer is generated so as to understand what may limit the quality or quantity of that response. In this way, we hope to find new means of augmenting the response to immunotherapy in a broader subset of patients. To do this, they are focusing on how the T-cell-mediated immune response is initiated. 

PARTNERS:

We grateful to the following for supporting this event:

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research - Nurturing Research. Improving Health.