BCI at the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland meeting

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Clik here to view.BCI's pathology researchers headed to the 9^th Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland's pathology meeting in Nottingham last week.

It was a joint meeting with the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and the sessions combined updates in clinical diagnostic histopathology across all medical specialties with recent advances in molecular pathology, basic science and new technologies in clinical diagnostics.

Professor Louise Jones:

I'm proud to say BCI walked away with all the major honours

Some details of the prizes:

Trevor Graham - Annual Oakley Lecture

The CL Oakley lectureship is an annual prize awarded by PathSoc for scientists under 40, which recognises important contributions to our understanding of disease. Our Director, Prof Nick Lemoine was a previous recipient.

I was delighted and honoured to win the prize for our work looking at the evolution of human colorectal cancer. Giving the lecture was a real pleasure.

In my talk I discussed our work looking at stem cell evolution in the human colon and also evolution in colorectal adenomas and in other cancer types.

References: (Baker et al., Cell Reports, 2014; Sottoriva et al., Nature Genetics, 2015; Humphries et al., PNAS, 2013 Williams et al., Nature Genetics, 2016)

Alastair Ironside - Plenary Oral Presentation Prize

My presentation was about my PhD project investigating the biology of mammographic density and how we hope the findings will be able to be used in the management of women at high risk of breast developing cancer.

Mary-Kate Hayward - Poster prize

Mary-Kate attended as a day delegate to hear the molecular pathology talks and said:

The focus on rare breast cancer types that receive little attention in other conferece settings was particularly helpful. As a non-clinical scientist it was interesting to hear about the diagnostic challenges facing clinicians!