New Patient Area on Project Website
We’ve just launched a new patient area on the project website – have a look!
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New Related Publications Area
We’ve created a new area on the project website for publications from our partners that are relevant to MErCuRIC – check it out!
EUPATI Newsletter for Oct 2015
EUPATI, the European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation has published their Oct 2015 newsletter – learn more about the experience of students who have just completed the first Patient Xpert Training Course and why regulatory agencies think patient education and engagement are important.
Interview with Prof. Bardelli about Liquid Biopsies
In an IFOM interview, MErCuRIC researcher Prof. Alberto Bardelli of the Universita Degli Studi di Torino talks about why he studies colorectal cancer. He describes personalised medicine, targeted therapies and resistance to therapy, as well as monitoring therapy in real time with blood-based assays called liquid biopsies. You can watch the interview here.
Learn more about personalized medicine from CARPEM
Educational videos from Cancer Research for Personalized Medicine (CARPEM) are now available online in French (English subtitles). Pr. Julien Taieb, gastrointestinal oncologist at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (APHP), describes how advances in personalized medicine modify its practices in the treatment of digestive cancers.
MErCuRIC Abstract Accepted to ASCO 2015
MErCuRIC will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 meeting, 29 May – 02 June 2015, in Chicago. A poster entitled ‘MErCuRIC1: A Phase I study of MEK1/2 inhibitor PD-0325901 with cMET inhibitor crizotinib in RASMT and RASWT (with aberrant c-MET) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients’ will be included in the Gastrointestinal (Colorectal) Cancer […]
QUB to host All Ireland Cancer Consortium Conference 2015
The Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen’s University Belfast, in conjunction with the Ireland-Northern Ireland-National Cancer Institute Consortium, will host the All-Ireland Cancer Consortium (AICC) Conference 2015 at the Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, between 10th and 13th May 2015. The focus of the conference will be on ‘New Horizons for Cancer: Removing […]
MErCuRIC Year 1 Meeting
MErCuRIC partners attended a successful meeting in VHIO, Barcelona on 16 Dec 2014. Progress made by the consortium in year 1 was discussed and work for year 2 was planned. To date, we have received ethical approval to open two sites (OXFORD and UZA) to recruit to the Phase I trial, and advanced the translational […]
Promotional Material now available in our Media Area
We have new promotional material now available to view in our media area. Follow this link to view our latest flyer.
Free Bowel Cancer Public Information Evening
The NI Cancer Research Forum invite you to a free bowel cancer public information evening. Hear about new developments in Research and Care. Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Belfast City Hospital, Cancer Centre, Level 1, Seminar Room 3, 7-9pm Refreshments will be served. Please contact if interested: [email protected] Tel:
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