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On Thursday 10th November the Node attended the North East Young Peron’s Advisory Group (YPAG). The YPAG is a national initiative that seeks to engage and involve young people aged between 11 and 18 years in the development of research studies about the health and wellbeing of their peers.
The Node’s main focus at the event was to gather the groups opinion on a new commercial research study involving tissue donation.
The Node’s deputy director Professor Phil Sloan and pathology trainee Anne Chambers took part in the Royal College of Pathologist’s supported ‘Meet the Scientist’ event on Saturday 12th November . This included the delivery of exciting activities that help educate the public on haematology, biochemistry and cellular pathology.
There was a lot of interest in their stand and they had lots of fun interacting with children and their families at the event.
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The Newcastle Molecular Pathology Node will be holding an industry day in conjunction with the NAHP industry month in February 2017. The event is aimed at engaging industry partners and discovering possible collaboration opportunities.
The event will be held at the Research Beehive in the Old Library Building on 2nd March 2017.
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The Node attended the NCRI Cancer Conference in Liverpool from the 5th to the 8th November to promote the Node’s new MSc in Molecular Pathology online programme.
The NCRI Cancer Conference showcases the latest basic, translational and clinical cancer research. It brings researchers together to share ideas and develop collaborations.
The Node will be taking part in the Royal College of Pathologist’s supported ‘Meet the Scientist’ event. This will include the delivery of exciting activities that help educate the public on haematology, biochemistry and cellular pathology.
During this two day event volunteers will interact with the public and show the vital role of pathologists in the prevention,
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Our training strand lead Dr Dina Tiniakos attended the recent International Congress of the IAP in Cologne and her poster from the Node supported Fibrosis project was presented in the Digestive Diseases Pathology category. Please see below an image from Dina’s stand at the event.
The UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre is an exciting new initiative to improve access to human tissue samples for research purposes in the UK.
Please find details on the upcoming Newcastle University Roadshow on the 10th October in the leaflet below.
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What: “Working together: Collaboration in the cancer biobanking landscape” When: Monday 17 October 2016 Where: Glasgow Registration closes 30 September 2016 http://ccb.ncri.org.uk/events/workingtogetherinbiobanking
The programme includes:
This interactive event will be of interest to donors,
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Our Node Director Professor Andy Hall was invited to attend a workshop in Oxford titled ‘Personalised medicine, the promise, the hype and the pitfalls’. The event was hosted by the Healthcare Values Partnership at the University of Oxford and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Andy found this workshop to be very pertinent to the issues around personalised medicine and provided the website team with the following comments;
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