Today I successfully passed my Transfer of Status from ‘DPhil Candidate’ to ‘DPhil Student’. It was amazing to present my past years work in detail & get feedback!
It’s a steep learning curve but today was rewarding! 📈

Yesterday we finished with prize-giving and drinks in the garden🥂🌱! 🏆 Posters for Bas, Cindy & Charlotte📃; postdoc talk for Qian 👩‍🏫 & best embossing artwork for Group8 🧑‍🎨 Shoutout to Lisha for the Rhodes House tours, acknowledging its history, the good and the uncomfortable ⚖️. What a day! #CIOawayday

✨ Kicking off #CIOawayday with our senior PIs sharing the experiments that changed their careers 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧫 A reminder that serendipity, curiosity, and pub chats can spark groundbreaking ideas 🤓 Clearly science thrives on kindness and collaboration and we got a lot of that in #CIO 😉🙃 #ScienceLife

Very excited after today’s @oxcio.bsky.social Seminar where Lennard Lee & his PhD student Michael Bryan gave insight into their research on #CancerVaccine Predictions/Modeling in #glioblastoma, supported by the personal experience of a PPI representative & Dame Siobhain Mcdonagh MP with glioblastoma

We are at Westgate today with @oxfordcancer.bsky.social! 🎉Come say hello at the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social event and discover how we can develop new therapies and vaccines to fight cancer! 🧫🥼🔬💉💡

Immigration costs and barriers are taking funds away from cancer research and putting off the world's best researchers from coming to the UK to help us beat cancer sooner.

Read our reflections below on the missed opportunities in the Immigration White Paper to address this.