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Recruitment to Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial ends
After 18 months, our groundbreaking kidney screening tria l funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research , has closed to recruitment. Thousands...
Carley Batley
Nov 3, 20221 min read
UM researchers develop AI to distinguish between renal cancer subtypes
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is among the top ten most common cancers worldwide. However, approximately 20% of small renal masses removed...
Carley Batley
Oct 20, 20222 min read
Programme Lead Professor Stewart awarded King James IV Professorship
Urological Malignancies Programme Lead, Professor Grant Stewart has been awarded the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's most senior...
Carley Batley
Sep 28, 20221 min read
Urological Malignancies Programme Lead Professor Grant Stewart authors seminal review in The Lancet
UM Programme Lead Professor Grant Stewart has authored a seminal review for ‘The Lancet’ in which he and his international co-authors...
Madeleine Doutney
Jul 21, 20221 min read
NAXIVA findings published in British Journal of Cancer
Findings from NAXIVA, the first clinical trial to evaluate neo-adjuvant downstaging of patients with the unique biological phenomenon of...
Madeleine Doutney
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Research reveals how genetic mutations cause kidney cancer
A study has identified how common genetic alterations lead to the development of kidney cancer. Researchers from the University of...
Madeleine Doutney
Jun 9, 20223 min read
Dr Sarah Welsh and Mr Tom Mitchell talk translational research in ICM Podcast
Dr Sarah Welsh and Mr Tom Mitchell talk about their translational research and how it has helped to determine cancer genetics in renal...
Madeleine Doutney
May 26, 20221 min read
UM Lead awarded the John Fitzpatrick Award
UM Lead Professor Grant Stewart was awarded the John Fitzpatrick Award by the Kidney Cancer Association at IKCS: Europe 2022 in Antwerp,...
Madeleine Doutney
May 5, 20221 min read
UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh wins ACED Project Award
UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh has won a prestigious ACED Project Award for a project entitled 'Comprehensive genomic analysis of tumour and host...
Madeleine Doutney
Apr 19, 20222 min read
YCR release video detailing YKST's successes
Yorkshire Cancer Research have released a video which details the outstanding progress that the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial has made...
Madeleine Doutney
Mar 29, 20221 min read
UM Programme Member authors chapter in new book
UM Programme Member Sabrina Rossi has authored a chapter on Renal Cancer in Basic Urological Sciences (eds. Karl H. Pang, Nadir I. Osman,...
Madeleine Doutney
Jan 11, 20221 min read
Repurpose your science for urological cancers and you could receive a £10,000 grant
The Urological Malignancies Programme is offering a pump-priming grant of £10,000 to an early-career, postdoctoral fundamental scientist...
Madeleine Doutney
Jan 5, 20221 min read
UM Lead co-authored article published in the New England Journal of Medicine labelled 'game changer'
An article co-written by UM Lead Dr Sarah Welsh and published in the New England Journal of Medicine has been described as a 'potential...
Madeleine Doutney
Dec 8, 20211 min read
UM Programme members featured on BBC's Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
Last week's Surgeons: At the Edge of Life featured the skill and stamina of UM Programme member Alex Colquhoun with Nicola Fearnhead, as...
Madeleine Doutney
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Two UM articles listed as 2020 'must reads'
Two articles authored by members of the UM programme have been named 'must read'. The final session at the 2021 European Association of...
Madeleine Doutney
Oct 28, 20211 min read
UM Lead helps lay the foundations for effective trial design
UM Lead Professor Grant Stewart has cowritten an article in Contemporary Clinical Trials, entitled 'RAMPART; A Model for a...
Madeleine Doutney
Oct 13, 20211 min read
Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial the highest recruiting trial in Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust
New data for April-July 2021 has demonstrated that the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial recruited 793 participants, making it the highest...
Madeleine Doutney
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Professor Grant Stewart talks controversy in renal cancer surgery with the Uromigos
Evidence of patient benefit (oncological outcomes, renal function, cardiovascular events, overall survival) for radical versus partial...
Carley Batley
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Origins of seven types of kidney cancer identified in new research
Urological Malignancies programme member Tom Mitchell of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and colleagues from Great Ormond Street Hospital,...
Carley Batley
Jul 7, 20211 min read
Guest Post by Professor Margaret Ashcroft: CRISPR/Cas9 screening
Urological Malignancies programme member, Professor Margaret Ashcroft and her team of researchers recently published their work on...
Carley Batley
Jun 22, 20212 min read
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