Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University of London

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Gabriella Ficz
2019-11-14 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Lister and Young Seminar Room, John Vane Science Centre, London, EC1M 6BQ
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to announce that Dr Gabriella Ficz will be presenting on Thursday 14th November. For more information about Dr Ficz’s work please click here.
The seminar is entitled: “Making sense of DNA methylation in cancer”
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12:30-13:30.

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Benjamin Werner
2019-11-21 12:30 - 13:30
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to announce that Dr Benjamin Werner will be presenting on Thursday 21st November. For more information about Dr Werner’s work please click here.
The seminar is entitled: “Mathematics of Cancer Evolution”
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12:30-13:30.

Thursday Seminar Series - Veronica Torrano Moyà
2020-01-09 12:30 - 13:30
As part of the Thursday Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Verónica Torrano Moyà from the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Derio, Spain) to present at the BCI on Thursday 9th January. For more information about Dr Torrano’s research, please click here.
The seminar is entitled: ‘Deciphering the Metabolic Essence of Prostate Cancer Progression’.
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12:30-13:30.
If you would like to arrange to meet with Dr Torrano, please contact Victoria Sanz-Moreno (v.sanz-moreno@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series – Heinz Läubli
2020-01-16 12:30 - 13:30
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Heinz Läubli from the University of Basel (Switzerland) to present at the BCI on Thursday 16th January. For more information about Dr Läubli’s research, please click here.
The seminar is entitled: ‘Cancer Immunotherapy by Manipulation of Tumor-Associated Glycosylation’.

Impact of the cancer-associated glycosylation on immune suppression
Enzymatic targeting of cancer-associated glycosylation
Discussion of the sialoglycan/Siglec pathway as new target for cancer immunotherapy
Glycan manipulation for cellular therapies

Heinz Läubli is a physician scientist with clinical training and a specialisation in medical oncology. He is a senior attending physician at the University Hospital in Basel and a head of the laboratory for cancer immunotherapy at the Department of Biomedicine. His research focuses on glycan changes in solid tumors and their influence on the anti-tumor immune response. He is employing genetic and enzymatic manipulation to modify glycans for improvement of cancer immunotherapy. He has initiated different early phase clinical trials including trials involving cellular immunotherapies.
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12:30-13:30.
If you would like to arrange to meet with Dr Läubli, please contact Oliver Pearce (o.pearce@qmul.ac.uk).

Thursday Seminar Series - Dr Martin Cohn
2020-02-27 12:30 - 13:30
As part of the BCI’s Seminar Series, we are pleased to welcome Dr Martin Cohn to present on Thursday 27th February. For more information about Martin’s research, please click here.
The seminar is entitled: ‘The Fanconi Anemia DNA repair pathway: Identification of new players’.
The seminar will be held in the Lister and Young Seminar Room, 12:30-13:30.
