PhDs in Focus: Developing a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer Posted: Friday, February 7, 2025 Author: Rebecca Ford For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Rebecca Ford outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is part of the development of a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer, through the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Developing a nasal swab test for early detection of lung cancer
PhDs in Focus: Leveraging routinely collected population health data for rare conditions Posted: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Author: Dr Tom Wright For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Dr Tom Wright outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project explores the use of routinely collected population-based health data to enhance our understanding of rare conditions and mental health, as part of the Rare Conditions theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Leveraging routinely collected population health data for rare conditions
PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Author: Matt Church For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Matt Church outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project aims to better understand lung cancers without genetic defects to try to improve their outcome, as part of the Cancer Precision Medicine theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers
PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 Author: Zelpha D’Souza For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Zelpha D'Souza outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is investigating how to improve clinical trials in rare conditions, as part of the Rare Conditions theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Developing a Core Outcome Set for a rare condition
PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer? Posted: Friday, January 17, 2025 Author: Fraser Child For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Fraser Child outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project focuses on improving outcomes for patients with bladder cancer, as part of the Advanced Radiotherapy theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: How can we improve outcomes for patients with bladder cancer?
The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2025 Five Manchester BRC bioinformaticians have shared what they learned from the European Conference on Computational Biology and how they are now applying this to their work analysing medical research data. Continue reading full article: The power of data and algorithms for health and science – what Manchester BRC bioinformaticians learned from European conference
PhDs in Focus: Cancer of Unknown Primary – ‘The nameless cancer’ Posted: Friday, November 8, 2024 Author: Holly Cassell For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Holly Cassell outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project aims to shed light on the identities of unknown cancers, within the Cancer Precision Medicine theme as part of work from a team at the Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Cancer of Unknown Primary – ‘The nameless cancer’
PhDs in Focus: Understanding rare diseases Posted: Thursday, November 7, 2024 Author: Aoife O’Sullivan For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Aoife O’Sullivan outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project is investigating how certain rare developmental genetic conditions affect a person’s thinking, behavioural, emotional and social skills, as part of the Rare Conditions theme. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Understanding rare diseases