Centre for Immuno-Oncology
@oxcio.bsky.social
Centre for Immuno-Oncology (CIO)
Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford.
We are based at the Old Road Campus Research Building.
https://www.immonc.ox.ac.uk
Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford.
We are based at the Old Road Campus Research Building.
https://www.immonc.ox.ac.uk
Tomorrow we welcome Jonathon Worboys from the University of Manchester to our CIO seminar series.
Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’
Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tomorrow we welcome Jonathon Worboys from the University of Manchester to our CIO seminar series.
Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’
Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’
Welcome DPhil class of 2025! Great to have you in CIO.
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Welcome DPhil class of 2025! Great to have you in CIO.
🤩CIO Cake Alert!! Anjum made this amazing lemon blueberry sponge cake for Felipe’s @galvez-cancino.bsky.social birthday from a TikTok recipe 🍰💙 But she promised to add it to our recipe collection making it truly generational-friendly!We’re so excited that homebaked cakes are back to CIO again 🎉
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🤩CIO Cake Alert!! Anjum made this amazing lemon blueberry sponge cake for Felipe’s @galvez-cancino.bsky.social birthday from a TikTok recipe 🍰💙 But she promised to add it to our recipe collection making it truly generational-friendly!We’re so excited that homebaked cakes are back to CIO again 🎉
Today we welcome Associate Prof. Amir Horowitz from the Tish Cancer Institute at Mt Sinai to the CIO Seminar Series.
Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'
Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'
October 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Today we welcome Associate Prof. Amir Horowitz from the Tish Cancer Institute at Mt Sinai to the CIO Seminar Series.
Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'
Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'
Hugo, a DPhil student in our department, created a brain teaser about #immunopeptidomics. Can you help us solve it? #AntigenPresentation #Immunology #OxfordOpenDoors
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hugo, a DPhil student in our department, created a brain teaser about #immunopeptidomics. Can you help us solve it? #AntigenPresentation #Immunology #OxfordOpenDoors
Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩🔬👨🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors
September 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩🔬👨🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors
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
July 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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
After some cake 🎂 (of course!) to celebrate Tim’s and Nacho’s birthdays 🥳, we wrapped up with fantastic postdoc talks. Big thanks to Bruno, Maria, Lisa and Qian for rounding off a #CIOawayday packed with inspiring science and great company! 😊
July 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
After some cake 🎂 (of course!) to celebrate Tim’s and Nacho’s birthdays 🥳, we wrapped up with fantastic postdoc talks. Big thanks to Bruno, Maria, Lisa and Qian for rounding off a #CIOawayday packed with inspiring science and great company! 😊
🧪 We continued with an engaging afternoon poster session featuring more of our talented PhD students 🐣 Fantastic science, thoughtful questions, and great discussions all around. The future is bright! #CIOawayday
July 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🧪 We continued with an engaging afternoon poster session featuring more of our talented PhD students 🐣 Fantastic science, thoughtful questions, and great discussions all around. The future is bright! #CIOawayday
🎨 After lunch we had some team-building fun with a sciency embossing workshop 🧑🎨 so many creative scientists in the room! Huge thanks to Asma for teaching us a new skill!! #CIOawayday #embossing
July 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🎨 After lunch we had some team-building fun with a sciency embossing workshop 🧑🎨 so many creative scientists in the room! Huge thanks to Asma for teaching us a new skill!! #CIOawayday #embossing
🐣 We followed with our Junior PIs telling us about their questions for the next 5 years 💡 Lots of exciting, cutting-edge new ideas that will hopefully materialise soon and bring even more new questions to #CIO 🤓 🥳 #CIOawayday @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🐣 We followed with our Junior PIs telling us about their questions for the next 5 years 💡 Lots of exciting, cutting-edge new ideas that will hopefully materialise soon and bring even more new questions to #CIO 🤓 🥳 #CIOawayday @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social
🌟 Fantastic morning poster session from our DPhil students 📚🧫 so much talent and fresh thinking on display! More to come this afternoon. #CIOawayday
July 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🌟 Fantastic morning poster session from our DPhil students 📚🧫 so much talent and fresh thinking on display! More to come this afternoon. #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
July 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
✨ 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
Happy birthday Manu @manusmolkin.bsky.social and Max 🥳🎂 #CIObirthdays
June 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy birthday Manu @manusmolkin.bsky.social and Max 🥳🎂 #CIObirthdays
Feeling proud and looking sharp!
Repping the Centre for Immuno-Oncology in style 😎
🔥Our top models, @anthonyhsieh.bsky.social and @mjwsim.bsky.social, rocking the CIO polos, in black and navy, which seems to be the unofficial Friday uniform around here!
Team spirit (and outfits) on point 💛🖤💙
Repping the Centre for Immuno-Oncology in style 😎
🔥Our top models, @anthonyhsieh.bsky.social and @mjwsim.bsky.social, rocking the CIO polos, in black and navy, which seems to be the unofficial Friday uniform around here!
Team spirit (and outfits) on point 💛🖤💙
June 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Feeling proud and looking sharp!
Repping the Centre for Immuno-Oncology in style 😎
🔥Our top models, @anthonyhsieh.bsky.social and @mjwsim.bsky.social, rocking the CIO polos, in black and navy, which seems to be the unofficial Friday uniform around here!
Team spirit (and outfits) on point 💛🖤💙
Repping the Centre for Immuno-Oncology in style 😎
🔥Our top models, @anthonyhsieh.bsky.social and @mjwsim.bsky.social, rocking the CIO polos, in black and navy, which seems to be the unofficial Friday uniform around here!
Team spirit (and outfits) on point 💛🖤💙
🎉 Huge congrats to our DPhil #CIOstudent Dr.Hong Sun (McMichael/Gillespie labs) on passing her viva today! Big thanks to examiners Prof Moss & Prof Rowland-Jones and supervisors Hongbing, @ggillesp.bsky.social & Andrew. What a journey 👩🎓wishing you all the best in your next adventure! 🌟
June 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🎉 Huge congrats to our DPhil #CIOstudent Dr.Hong Sun (McMichael/Gillespie labs) on passing her viva today! Big thanks to examiners Prof Moss & Prof Rowland-Jones and supervisors Hongbing, @ggillesp.bsky.social & Andrew. What a journey 👩🎓wishing you all the best in your next adventure! 🌟
Lucy, FHS student at @mjwsim.bsky.social’s lab, has outdone herself! Not only is this the prettiest cake we’ve seen 😍, but it’s also seriously delicious 🤤🍰 #LabLife #BakingScience
June 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Lucy, FHS student at @mjwsim.bsky.social’s lab, has outdone herself! Not only is this the prettiest cake we’ve seen 😍, but it’s also seriously delicious 🤤🍰 #LabLife #BakingScience
We got #CIO stash this week 😍 The Immunopeptidomics girls were showing it off today at #OCION making everyone else quite jealous 🥲
We definitely LOVE our logo 🫶🏼 #ProudCIO
Big thanks to DPhil student Charlotte from @witherslab.bsky.social for organising 💙
We definitely LOVE our logo 🫶🏼 #ProudCIO
Big thanks to DPhil student Charlotte from @witherslab.bsky.social for organising 💙
June 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We got #CIO stash this week 😍 The Immunopeptidomics girls were showing it off today at #OCION making everyone else quite jealous 🥲
We definitely LOVE our logo 🫶🏼 #ProudCIO
Big thanks to DPhil student Charlotte from @witherslab.bsky.social for organising 💙
We definitely LOVE our logo 🫶🏼 #ProudCIO
Big thanks to DPhil student Charlotte from @witherslab.bsky.social for organising 💙
We’re at the #OCION Symposium today @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
💡🧬A full day of inspiring talks, cutting-edge science, and collaborative energy as we explore the vibrant cancer research landscape across Oxford. From immuno-oncology to early detection & precision medicine #OxfordCancer #CancerResearch
💡🧬A full day of inspiring talks, cutting-edge science, and collaborative energy as we explore the vibrant cancer research landscape across Oxford. From immuno-oncology to early detection & precision medicine #OxfordCancer #CancerResearch
June 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We’re at the #OCION Symposium today @oxfordcancer.bsky.social
💡🧬A full day of inspiring talks, cutting-edge science, and collaborative energy as we explore the vibrant cancer research landscape across Oxford. From immuno-oncology to early detection & precision medicine #OxfordCancer #CancerResearch
💡🧬A full day of inspiring talks, cutting-edge science, and collaborative energy as we explore the vibrant cancer research landscape across Oxford. From immuno-oncology to early detection & precision medicine #OxfordCancer #CancerResearch
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! 🧫🥼🔬💉💡
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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! 🧫🥼🔬💉💡
🤓 Great talks today at the Spacial Biology seminar from OCION and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Inspiring inisghts from Simon Leedham and our very own David Withers! @witherslab.bsky.social
#SpacialBiology #ImmuneDynamics #OxfordResearch #OCION
Inspiring inisghts from Simon Leedham and our very own David Withers! @witherslab.bsky.social
#SpacialBiology #ImmuneDynamics #OxfordResearch #OCION
April 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🤓 Great talks today at the Spacial Biology seminar from OCION and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
Inspiring inisghts from Simon Leedham and our very own David Withers! @witherslab.bsky.social
#SpacialBiology #ImmuneDynamics #OxfordResearch #OCION
Inspiring inisghts from Simon Leedham and our very own David Withers! @witherslab.bsky.social
#SpacialBiology #ImmuneDynamics #OxfordResearch #OCION
Double the birthdays, double the cake! Celebrating Camilo’s and Beining’s birthdays this week at CIO! Wishing them both a brilliant year ahead!! 🥳🎂 #CIObirthdays
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Double the birthdays, double the cake! Celebrating Camilo’s and Beining’s birthdays this week at CIO! Wishing them both a brilliant year ahead!! 🥳🎂 #CIObirthdays
🎉 Morning birthday celebrations at #CIO! 🎂🥳 Happy birthday, Sashini! The star of the show? A spectacular chocolate cake crafted by our very own Asja 👩🏻🍳🍫—a true work of art.
At this rate, we might need to launch our own #CIOBakeOff soon! 🍰👩🍳
#TeamCIO #CakeGoals #SocialCIO
At this rate, we might need to launch our own #CIOBakeOff soon! 🍰👩🍳
#TeamCIO #CakeGoals #SocialCIO
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🎉 Morning birthday celebrations at #CIO! 🎂🥳 Happy birthday, Sashini! The star of the show? A spectacular chocolate cake crafted by our very own Asja 👩🏻🍳🍫—a true work of art.
At this rate, we might need to launch our own #CIOBakeOff soon! 🍰👩🍳
#TeamCIO #CakeGoals #SocialCIO
At this rate, we might need to launch our own #CIOBakeOff soon! 🍰👩🍳
#TeamCIO #CakeGoals #SocialCIO
📢 Invited Speaker today at #CIOSeminars
We’re excited to welcome Prof Paul Huang from @icr.ac.uk
His lab focuses on the molecular pathology of sarcomas to develop new therapies for these rare cancers.
🔬 "Precision Medicine in Soft Tissue Sarcomas"
⏰ 13:00
📍 NDMRB Seminar Room
Don't miss it!!! 🧫💉
We’re excited to welcome Prof Paul Huang from @icr.ac.uk
His lab focuses on the molecular pathology of sarcomas to develop new therapies for these rare cancers.
🔬 "Precision Medicine in Soft Tissue Sarcomas"
⏰ 13:00
📍 NDMRB Seminar Room
Don't miss it!!! 🧫💉
March 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Invited Speaker today at #CIOSeminars
We’re excited to welcome Prof Paul Huang from @icr.ac.uk
His lab focuses on the molecular pathology of sarcomas to develop new therapies for these rare cancers.
🔬 "Precision Medicine in Soft Tissue Sarcomas"
⏰ 13:00
📍 NDMRB Seminar Room
Don't miss it!!! 🧫💉
We’re excited to welcome Prof Paul Huang from @icr.ac.uk
His lab focuses on the molecular pathology of sarcomas to develop new therapies for these rare cancers.
🔬 "Precision Medicine in Soft Tissue Sarcomas"
⏰ 13:00
📍 NDMRB Seminar Room
Don't miss it!!! 🧫💉
🔬CIO is at #BSIOxford today! 🎯 Beinig Li gave a fantastic talk this morning on peptide-specificity of KIR during the Innate Immunity session.
🤓You still have the chance to check out all the CIO insightful posters—lots of cutting-edge science on display! #Immunology #BSI2025
@britsocimm.bsky.social
🤓You still have the chance to check out all the CIO insightful posters—lots of cutting-edge science on display! #Immunology #BSI2025
@britsocimm.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🔬CIO is at #BSIOxford today! 🎯 Beinig Li gave a fantastic talk this morning on peptide-specificity of KIR during the Innate Immunity session.
🤓You still have the chance to check out all the CIO insightful posters—lots of cutting-edge science on display! #Immunology #BSI2025
@britsocimm.bsky.social
🤓You still have the chance to check out all the CIO insightful posters—lots of cutting-edge science on display! #Immunology #BSI2025
@britsocimm.bsky.social