Yorkshire Cancer Research Blog
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Science and research
Sometimes in your working life, something happens that makes you tingle all over, and makes you feel like all the effort that you pour into your work has been worthwhile. At the moment,...
Marathon Des Sables
Everyone at Yorkshire Cancer Research would like to say a massive thank y...
Overseas challenge event
Duncan Read, a 40-year-old business man from Harrogate, will take on the Marathon Des Sables in April to raise money for Yorkshire Cancer Research. Here he gives an insi...
Science and research
In July I spent a hectic week in Guangzhou, China as part of our sponsorship of a Cancer Diagnostics Workshop under the umbrella of the UK China Healthcare Open Innovation Programme. Deta...
Science and research
This week the Prime Minister unveiled plans to launch a new DNA database capable of holding the genetic details of every person in Britain. The project will hold data from...
Science and Research
Josie Hayes is one of our new funded PhD students in the Translational Neuro-oncology Group at Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine. She spent a week with researchers at the Universit...
Events
Science and research
This week Nikki from our press team had the opportunity to attend our colon cancer surgery workshop, which was designed to improve outcomes for patients in Yorkshire and beyond...
Chief Executive's blog
"As a medical research charity, one of the biggest challenges we face is turning scientific discoveries into products that can be commercially produced and used to treat patients on an ...
Everything else
We had a great time meeting some of you at the Great North Run in September, and as the running season draws to a close, we're starting to think about Christmas!