Were proud to announce that our very own Professor Peter Johnson has received a CBE in the Queens birthday honours list.
Upon being recognised, Professor Johnson said: “I’m working in an exciting time in cancer research and particular in cancer immunology.
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The University of Southamptons Professor Peter Johnson has received a CBE in this years Queens birthday honours list, in recognition of his services to medicine and higher education.
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Our Professor Tim Elliott, Director of the Centre for Cancer Immunology, University of Southampton, comments on a story about a paper, published in Nature, which describes a vaccine to fight skin cancer. Find out more.
Cancer Research UK have announced that our current facilities at Southampton General Hospital will be awarded £4m as part of a £16m UK initiative to help fight the most malignant cancers. The University of Southampton’s Professor Tim Elliott, Director of the Centre for Cancer Immunology, said: “We’re delighted to have been awarded this grant to further our understanding of how immunotherapies work.” Read full story in the Daily Echo.
Experts from the Cancer Research UK Centres in Southampton and Oxford will receive £4m over the next five years, as part of a £16m UK-wide initiative – the charity’s Centres’ Network Accelerator Awards – to help the fight against cancers that are most difficult to treat. Read our press release to see how Southampton is taking the lead and our new Centre will take a pivotal role.
Visit the University of Southampton’s latest online research publication, Research Highlights, and hear from Professor Tim Elliott, Director of the new Centre for Cancer Immunology and Professor of Experimental Oncology, on how we are taking exciting new findings in the lab and developing these into cancer immunotherapy treatments for patients in our clinics From bench to bedside- and beyond.
A huge thank you and congratulations to everyone who ran the ABP Southampton Half Marathon & 10k last Sunday, on behalf of our campaign for the Centre for Cancer Immunology. Collectively our runners, made up of staff and students from all across the University, raised over £9,000, with money still rolling in. We have some great photos from the day read more to see the links.
We are excited to announce that a multi-disciplinary team of international scientists led by the University of Southamptons Dr Surinder Sahota is one of eight groups shortlisted to the final stages of Cancer Research UKs global Grand Challenge – a series of £20m cancer grants tackling the toughest questions in cancer research.
In the latest edition of Southampton Connects Alumni, Professor Tim Elliott, the newly appointed Director for the planned Centre for Cancer Immunology, talks about the latest developments, the focus of research for the new Centre and his hopes for the future. You can read it here.
Read The Suns current feature on cancer immunotherapy treatment and its success stories. One of the stories is about Julie Davies, a survivor of advanced follicular lymphoma, and one of our very own clinical trial patients. Here, she tells her own personal story of how an immunotherapy clinical trial put her into remission.