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11th August 2025
£10m awarded to partnership investigating innovative radiolabelled nanomedicines

Researchers at Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary University of London, will play a part in a revolutionary new partnership with King’s College London and the University of Leeds, aiming to accelerate and optimise the clinical translation of healthcare nanotechnologies.

Students and demonstrators in the lab during the BURSThrough workshop
29th July 2025
Aspiring scientists gain a ‘burst’ of inspiration at the BCI

This month, we welcomed a total of 43 aspiring young scientists from across London to the Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary University of London, where they had the opportunity to meet researchers, try their hands in the lab and learn more about what it takes to become a scientist.

A man breathes into Owlstone Medical's ReCIVA Breath Sampler
23rd July 2025
Could a breath test detect blood cancer?

Molecules exhaled in the breath may provide clues to detect blood cancer, according to new research by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute. The findings could enable the development of a blood cancer breathalyser, providing a rapid, low-cost way to detect disease.

Germinal centre-like structures in the salivary glands of a patient with Sjögren’s syndrome. This microscopy image shows the relationship between molecules involved in the cell’s recycling process (autophagy; shown in red) and Lamin B1 (in green), a protein found at the edge of the cell nucleus. Areas with increased autophagy activity correspond to regions with lower amounts of Lamin B1, suggesting this recycling process helps control Lamin B1 levels in immune cells during autoimmune disease.
2nd July 2025
Cells’ recycling system plays a surprising role in shaping immune cells DNA

Researchers have discovered a new mechanism by which B cells – antibody-producing immune cells – use a cellular recycling process called autophagy to control changes to their DNA essential for antibody improvement. The findings could have future implications for the development of certain blood cancers and autoimmune diseases.

8th June 2025
Study reveals molecules enabling bowel cancer to hijack healing processes and spread

Scientists have uncovered how bowel cancer cells imitate our gut’s natural healing processes to adapt, spread and grow. The findings researchers at Barts Cancer Institute could lead to new treatment strategies aimed at preventing cancer spread.

Pancreatic cancer cells grown in culture, SEM. Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute. Source: Wellcome Collection.
22nd May 2025
Scientists explore new way to bring CAR-T cell therapy to pancreatic cancer

A new strategy to help powerful cancer-targeting immune cells, known as CAR-T cells, infiltrate pancreatic tumours has been developed by researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London. The unique three-pronged approach could pave the way for making CAR-T cell therapy—a treatment that has transformed care for certain blood cancers—effective against pancreatic cancer, a disease that remains very difficult to treat.

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