Visit the University’s stand about the Centre for Cancer Immunology in the foyer of Southampton General Hospital Monday 27th June to Friday 1st July. All your questions answered plus a chance to play our ‘Killer T cell’ shooting game! We are also delighted to offer a ‘meet the expert’ lunchtime slot when you can hear directly from one of our top scientists. Read more here to see the full programme for the week.
We’re proud to announce that our very own Professor Peter Johnson has received a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Upon being recognised, Professor Johnson said: ‚ÄúI‚Äôm working in an exciting time in cancer research and particular in cancer immunology.”
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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.
Visit the University of Southampton‚Äôs 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 Рread more to see the links.
We are excited to announce that a multi-disciplinary team of international scientists led by the University of Southampton’s Dr Surinder Sahota is one of eight groups shortlisted to the final stages of Cancer Research UK’s global Grand Challenge ‚Äì 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.
We are delighted to announce that the University of Southampton’s application to build the Centre for Cancer Immunology has been approved by Southampton City Council. The new world-leading research centre will be situated at Southampton General Hospital and is planned to open in 2017.
We are delighted to announce that our campaign is now three quarters of the way to hitting its £25m target, boosted by a £4.5m grant from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). Help us reach our target by texting ‘YOUREIT’ to 70660 to donate £3.
Watch the latest interview with Professor Tim Elliott, the new Director for the planned Centre for Cancer Immunology, broadcast on That’s Solent TV.