The 8th Annual CRUK Oxford Centre Symposium was held on 28th June 2019 at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. The day consisted of a varied programme of presentations, ranging from cancer big data to cancer immune responses, and ended with a keynote talk from Prof. Tak Mak from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto. Ludwig Oxford’s Philip Macklin from Peter Ratcliffe’s group presented a joint talk with Joshua Bell (Mathematical Institute) on the development and validation of a digital pathology pipeline to better characterise the spatial distribution of immune cell infiltrates in cancer.
<img src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/mackin-talk-img_1008-16x9.jpg/@@images/25cf099b-7523-4554-b7d5-2ff66ac527d9.jpeg" title="Mackin talk IMG_1008 16x9.jpg" width="640" data-src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/mackin-talk-img_1008-16x9.jpg" alt="A photo of Philip Macklin presenting at the CRUK Oxford Centre symposium. His slide shows a Venn diagram with 4 centrally overlapping circles containing the text (clockwise from top): "- well-annotated patient cohorts +- therapeutic intervention - robust image analysis platform - Novel approaches to data analysis - Hihg quality pathology input"" class="image-center" /></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">In addition to the talks, the breadth of cancer research at Oxford was showcased by 49 poster presentations. These included posters from Ludwig Oxford researchers <a title="" href="resolveuid/69ddcdc673c14d4f9469bbf049c6a653" target="_self">Paolo Spingardi</a> and <a title="" href="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/team/ashvina-segaran" target="_self">Ashvina Segaran</a> (Kriaucionis lab), <a title="" href="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/team/yurena-vivas-garcia" target="_self">Yurena Vivas Garcia</a> and <a title="" href="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/team/pakavarin-louphrasitthiphol" target="_self">Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol</a> (Goding lab) and <a title="" href="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/team/ivy-lingyun-xiong" target="_self">Ivy Xiong</a> (Bond lab).</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "><img src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/pakaposterimg_10161x1.jpg/@@images/3a7c390f-8372-4f2d-8bf0-f356736c9d9e.jpeg" title="PakaposterIMG_10161x1.jpg" width="320" data-src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/pakaposterimg_10161x1.jpg" alt="A photo of Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol presenting his research poster" class="image-inline" /> <img src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/sk_lab_poster/@@images/7920bc59-5b4f-4b06-920b-e37a5ec43a47.jpeg" title="SK_lab_poster" width="320" data-src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/sk_lab_poster" alt="Two members of Skirmantas Kriaucionis' lab standing in front of their research poster" class="image-inline" /></p> <p style="text-align: center; "><img src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/ivy-poster-img_1014-1x1.jpg/@@images/52573987-7cbc-418f-80cf-0a00ca968f5e.jpeg" title="Ivy poster IMG_1014 1x1.jpg" width="320" data-src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/ivy-poster-img_1014-1x1.jpg" alt="A photo of a student presenting their research poster" class="image-left" /></p> <p><img src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/yurena-poster-img_1019-1x1.jpg/@@images/2f17c4f1-1af4-4fcf-b39d-f2d587a18c6a.jpeg" title="Yurena poster IMG_1019 1x1.jpg" width="320" data-src="https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/images/news/yurena-poster-img_1019-1x1.jpg" alt="A photo of Yurena Vivas Garcia presenting her research poster" class="image-inline" /></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; ">The successful day finished with a networking drinks reception.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> </p>