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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing work throughout the UK to smash our recruitment target!

Southampton Clinical Trials Unit @southamptonctu.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the DETECTION-2 team for reaching this recruitment milestone!

This #ClinicalTrial is seeing if a simple blood test can detect #melanoma returning earlier than a routine scan.

A larger phase III trial is now being planned.

Read more - bit.ly/3YRtqok

@cancerresearchuk.org

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Carers In STEMM @carersinstemm.bsky.social · 12d

We are pleased to announce the publication of our STEMM sector-wide survey

The report highlights our findings & suggests recommendations. Now available to download here carersinstemm.co.uk

Please share especially w/ institutions, funders & allies

@laurawolz.bsky.social @carterlj.bsky.social

Screenshot of the front page of the carers in STEMM survey report

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history.

"The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

Nature @nature.com · 13d

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

go.nature.com

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 19d

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · 27d

Very pleased to say DETECTION2 has just randomised it's 50th patient! Awesome work by patient groups @melanomafocus.bsky.social , UK clinical teams @christieinstitute.bsky.social R+I and SCTU funded by @cancerresearchuk.org

snoopy is standing in front of a fireworks display and says `` congratulations ! ''

Alt: snoopy is standing in front of a fireworks display and says `` congratulations ! ''

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Aug 22

G3 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Research Technician:Oxford Road

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Lee lab is expanding! We are really interested in mechanisms of local and systemic immune tolerance particularly in liver metastases - X2 research technicians
💡 Creative fun environment
🌱 Opportunities to grow
🫂 Highly collaborative with clinical+basic research
📢 Please spread word!

Research Technician:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Metastasis Research Society @metastasisresearch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Calling all ECRs in cancer and metastasis research. Don't forget to register for the upcoming ECR Virtual Symposium in November (FREE for MRS members). More details here metastasis-research.org/2025/08/06/2...

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 30

⭐We have a clinical fellow opportunity with the melanoma team! ⭐

Very friendly and supportive team
Lots of learning opportunities including clinical trials and immune therapy

Apply here👇

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Job vacancy: Clinical Research Fellow, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester | trac.jobs

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 Exciting new paper alert 🚨 From the Marie lab
⭐They have identified new melanoblast cell states which are reawakened in metastasizing and immunotherapy resistant melanoma
⭐ Can target using hdac inhibitors
#melsm #melanoma #cancer

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Transitory Schwann Cell Precursor and hybrid states underpin melanoma therapy resistance and metastasis

Melanoma plasticity, driven by phenotype state switching, underlies clinically relevant traits such as metastasis and therapy resistance. As melanoma progression is thought to recapitulate aspects of ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jose M. Adrover @adrover.bsky.social · Jul 17

I’m happy to share our latest work on tumour necrosis! During my time in the @megeblad.bsky.social lab, we found that tumour necrosis is not a passive phenomenon secondary to tumour growth, but an active phenomenon driven by neutrophils and NETs! Thread below: (1/13)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature

Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.

www.nature.com

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations 🎉

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations! 🎉

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations!

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mathematical models and ctdna have reached the clinic - the ultimate personalised trial testing adaptive targeted therapy highlighted in the news today!
#EBEcancer25

www.express.co.uk/life-style/h...

UK cancer breakthrough as simple blood test could help pinpoint treatment

EXCLUSIVE: Skin cancers can be among the most aggressive forms of the disease so using drugs to shrink them must be used with precision.

www.express.co.uk

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jul 2

Absolutely loving this course - fantastic discussions between all and the delegates and faculty. So many exciting Q's coming out of this!

Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · Jul 2

Now medical oncologist and clinician scientist @beckilee.bsky.social leading the first clinical session. Discussing how to bring evolutionary and ecological ideas into molecular tumour boards, and how to design evo clinical trials for better treatment regimens. #EBEcancer25 @eventswcs.bsky.social

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eriksahailab.bsky.social @eriksahailab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share our new study on how resistance to AKT inhibition is linked to lineage differences within breast cancer 👇🏽 Stellar work @colindhratcliffe.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and also surprisingly/worryingly good AI generated podcast 🎧 notebooklm.google.com/notebook/28e...

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing the data

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Jun 3

The deadline for early bird registration for the 5th Crick Cancer Conference has been extended.

See the full programme and book by 15 July to take advantage of reduced ticket rates for early bookers ⤵️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...

5th Crick International Cancer Conference

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jun 3

Super proud of our fellow Tomasso Bosetti presenting his poster at #ASCO25 on the impact of timing of immune therapy and outcomes across cancers - the early 🐦catches the 🪱!

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our data and the lung cancer trial also presented are very compelling for early time of day immune therapy treatment
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · May 22

Single cell whizz with green fingers for molecular genomics? Want to develop and apply new technologies for profiling #cancer #evolution? Like single cell WGS + ATAC: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Perhaps our senior scientific officer role is for you?

jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

@icr.ac.uk

Higher or Senior Scientific Officer in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research

View details and apply for this Higher or Senior Scientific Officer vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary from 39,805 to 49,023 Reporting to: Prof Trevor Graham Duration of ...

jobs.icr.ac.uk

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · May 20

Happy international trials day! Bit more info on one of the trials we have developed from research done @cruk-mi.bsky.social and now bringing to patients thanks to CRUK and @southamptonctu.bsky.social

Melanoma Focus @melanomafocus.bsky.social · May 20

On #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay, we share a Q&A about the DETECTION-2 clinical trial with Jemima Lawrance, a melanoma patient & patient representative on the trial and Dr
@beckilee.bsky.social one of the lead investigators, about the trial. buff.ly/ttajShm

@southamptonctu.bsky.social

The DETECTION-2 Trial - Q&A with Dr Becki Lee and Jemima Lawrance

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · May 6

The Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology @mathonco.bsky.social (Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida) is also advertising an Open Rank Tenure-earning Faculty Position in Mathematical Oncology. For this and other openings see mathematical-oncology.org/jobs

Jobs

mathematical-oncology.org

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