Interviews
The ECMC Programme Office recently welcomed Talia Macauley Kelly (left), Paediatric Impact & Engagement Manager and Rosie Richardson (right), Data Analyst to the team, increasing our capabilities to support the delivery of early-phase clinical trials sooner. Find out more about them.
We caught up with Angela Topping who recently became the Chair or the NHS R&D Forum. Angela has previously worked with the ECMC Programme Office/Network so we asked her about her new role and thoughts on how we can continue to work together.
A study that has found a new treatment that may be able to reverse drug resistance in prostate cancer patients by targeting myeloid cells was recently published in the journal Nature. We spoke to Professor Johann de Bono, Lead at The Institute of Cancer and Royal Marsden Hospital ECMC to find out more.
What is your role and which ECMC do you work at?
This childhood cancer awareness month we spoke with children's oncology research nurse, Lauren Butler and her team at Alder Hey (Liverpool paediatric ECMC) who told us why she chose to focus on paediatric oncology, what some of the opportunities are in the role and the team's proudest achievement.
Results from a Phase I trial investigating the use of Mov18 IgE, an anti-folate receptor alpha IgE antibody, as a cancer therapy have recently been published in Nature Communications. We spoke to Professor James Spicer, Lead at King's Health Partners (KHP) ECMC to find out more.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we sat down with the new Head of the ECMC Programme Office, Sheona Scales. We got to know Sheona, discussed her new role, her vision for the Programme Office and what International Women’s Day means to her.
Over the past few months, the ECMC Programme Office has welcomed three new members to the team. Eleanor Davies (ED), ECMC Project Liaison Intern, Neil Bhattacharjee (NB), Project Officer and Amy Wiles (AW), Project Officer. Find out more about them.
Over the past few months, we have welcomed four new members to the ECMC team. Lamise Nasr, Paediatric Network Manager; Molly Obadiah, Digital Healthcare Business Development Manager; Meghan Quirke, Website Executive Intern and Mollie Stebbings, Data Analyst (Clinical Trials). Find out more about them here.
We recently welcomed Khat Ali as the new Project Officer in the ECMC team. Khat has replaced Caroline Huxley as Project Officer but luckily for us Caroline has remained in the ECMC Programme Office. Caroline is now the Cancer Research UK Paediatric Manager and will be working to deliver the CRUK for Children and Young People's research strategy to drive progress for children and young people's cancer research.