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Official opening of the Health Innovation Hub by UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

Glasgow’s newest purpose-built life sciences laboratory facility, the Health Innovation Hub (HiH), has been officially opened by @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social.

The Hub is a flagship investment accelerating the growth of precision medicine and digital health companies.

More: gla.ac/4cxk0WH

TileBio secures £1.6M investment to launch AI ‘language of cancer’ diagnostic technology
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This Friday we will celebrating Ramadan @cruk-si.bsky.social @scs-voice.bsky.social ✨🫶

A metabolism-specific drug-repurposing screen reveals itraconazole as a potent OXPHOS inhibitor in acute myeloid leukemia Key Points. Nutrient sensing drug-repurposing screen identifies itraconazole, an FDA-approved azole antifungal, as a mitochondrial metabolism inhibitorItra

Delighted to share our publication in
@bloodjournal.bsky.social where we describe the identification of antifungal itraconazole as a potent inhibitor of mitochondrial metabolism in AML

Great effort by joint first authors Katerina Himonas and Lucie de Beauchamp.

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Looking forward to celebrating Lunar New Year today @cruk-si.bsky.social @scs-voice.bsky.social #YearOfTheHorse 🐎

Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research?

Then enter our image competition!

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Deadline 31st March

Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano

A metabolism-specific drug-repurposing screen reveals itraconazole as a potent OXPHOS inhibitor in acute myeloid leukemia Key Points. Nutrient sensing drug-repurposing screen identifies itraconazole, an FDA-approved azole antifungal, as a mitochondrial metabolism inhibitorItra

Hot off the press from @helgasonlab.bsky.social ashpublications.org/blood/articl...

Check out this lineup 🎉

Join us the last week of June for 100% cancer immunology

📣Register now for the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2026 ‘From Tumour Genesis to Metastasis: an immune perspective’

📅22-25 June 2026
📍CRUK Scotland Institute, Glasgow
🎟️Early Bird registration closes on 1 April
🔗 www.beatsonconference.org

#BICC2026 #CancerResearch #Immunology

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Professor Chiara Braconi has centralised oncological management across the West of Scotland, and February marked the launch of an NHS-supported molecular profiling programme for all Scottish biliary tract cancer patients.

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The University of Glasgow lights up green in support of #WorldCholangiocarcinomaDay 💚

Although considered rare, incidence has doubled in Scotland over the past decade, with a lowering age at diagnosis.

We remain committed to research that translates into real clinical impact. Every life counts.

New research aims to transform treatment for babies and children with aggressive blood cancers CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association is proud to announce a £600,000 collaboration with Blood Cancer UK that is funding vital new childhood leukaemia research.

New research aims to transform treatment for babies and children with aggressive blood cancers 🔬📢

We're proud to announce a £600,000 collaboration with @bloodcanceruk.bsky.social that is funding vital new childhood leukaemia research.

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The University of Glasgow Gilmorehill campus at sunset.

Ramadan Mubarak to all our UofG students, colleagues, alumni and friends observing the holy month of #Ramadan. 🌙

#OneTeamUofG

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The February edition of Research News is here! Discover more about:

🔬 An exciting research project.
💸 Our new funding committee chairs.
💙 Our updated Research Impact webpages.
🏆 Researcher achievements.
💰 Funding opportunities.

📖 Read it here: buff.ly/azyVGlK

MAPK-driven epithelial cell plasticity underlies CRC therapeutic resistance | National Mouse Genetics Network (White et al., Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute and collaborators across the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network – Cancer Cluster) Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a genetically complex disease, yet re...

MAPK-driven epithelial cell plasticity underlies colorectal cancer therapeutic resistance:

Members of our Cancer Cluster contributed to a recent paper that provides insight into resistance to therapy and suggests strategies that may improve therapeutic efficacy

nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/mapk-dr...

Our Best Models Working Group can offer advice on the use of a range of model systems.

The next in our series of #MeetTheExpert posts features Laura Greaves, whose group investigates the role of age-related mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer biology

nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/working-grou...

Tuning ubiquitin transfer by RING E3 ubiquitin ligases through the linchpin residue RING family ubiquitin ligases (E3s) employ the RING domain to recruit the E2 thioester ubiquitin (E2∼Ub) intermediate to catalyze the transfer of ubiquitin (Ub) to substrates. A cationic Arg linchpin ...

We worked with Danny Huang from @cruk_si to study cancer-linked linchpin mutations affecting protein ubiquitination. Proteins were analysed with Xray crystallography & NMR to reveal how binding changes activity. doi.org/10.26508/lsa... @lsajournal.org #WorldCancerDay @uofgmvls.bsky.social

FULLY FUNDED PhD - Understanding inequalities in early phase cancer clinical trials participation at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Understanding inequalities in early phase cancer clinical trials participation at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

Super interesting and important PhD position available at Glasgow. Great supervision as well.

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High-quality scientific research has enhanced our understanding of cancer immensely over the past few decades, and resulted in huge improvements in the treatment and outcomes of these diseases. #WorldCancerDay
@uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social

Blue graphic with black text which reads, "World Cancer Day, 4 February"

In the UK, nearly 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime. Today is World Cancer Day – a global day to raise awareness of cancer, and take action against it 🌍

Share this post to help us raise awareness.

#WorldCancerDay #WCD2026

CBL ubiquitin ligase targets translation as a degrader E3 Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional molecules that recruit an ubiquitin ligase (E3) and a neo-substrate into a ternary complex, enabling selective protein degradation. Desp...

My first-author paper is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org from my time in Professor Danny Huang’s laboratory @cruk-si.bsky.social. We showed that CBL can be used as a degrader E3 to target the “undruggable” eIF4E.
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Huge congratulations to @mitosrus.bsky.social and the team @cruk-si.bsky.social for this well deserved recognition 👏

We are delighted to announce that @mitosrus.bsky.social from @cruk-si.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk has been awarded the 2026 Hooke Medal

You can read about Stephen's work on mitochondria, cell death and cancer here:

bscb.org/hooke-medal-...

Delighted to have been awarded the Hooke Medal. This recognition reflects not only my work, but the outstanding contributions of my group members over the years.👍

Scientists discover potential new treatment to tackle cancer The research focused on the genetic faults that allow the disease to hijack a signalling system in the body.

📣Research from Owen Sansom's group @cruk-si.bsky.social has suggested a new way to tackle liver and bowel cancers

📖Read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists discover potential new treatment to tackle cancer The research focused on the genetic faults that allow the disease to hijack a signalling system in the body.

A new way to tackle liver and bowel cancers has been discovered @cruk-si.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New research news! Supercharging immune cells could provide an effective way to tackle cancer #CancerResearch www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

🚨LATE BREAKING ABSTRACTS🚨
We are delighted announce that submission is open for late breaking abstracts for the PREDICT-Meso International conference 2026

Abstracts can be submitted here
www.eventsforce.net/eventage/fro...
DEADLINE 16th January 2026

#mesothelioma #mesotheliomaresearch #PREDICTMeso

Happy Birthday to us! 🎉 

The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451! 

This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world.

#UofG575