We invite you to join us online on Thursday 16th January, from 3-4 PM (GMT).

 

The CRUK Convergence Science Centre is a partnership between Imperial College London and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). We aim to bring together researchers from different disciplines across both institutions to develop innovative ways to address challenges in cancer research to benefit patients. 

 

This seminar series brings together speakers from Imperial and ICR to present their research and how they use convergence science to answer cancer-related questions. 

 

Dr Sophie Morse (Imperial)

Dr Sophie Morse will present "Therapeutic Ultrasound against Brain Tumours"

Dr Sophie Morse currently leads an interdisciplinary group at Imperial focused on modulating the activity of the innate immune cells in the brain to help tackle brain diseases such as brain tumours, alongside delivering drugs to the brain by temporarily opening the blood-brain barrier with focused ultrasound and microbubbles.

 

Prof Jeff Bamber (ICR)

Prof Jeff Bamber will present "New ultrasound tools for cancer research, diagnosis and treatment"

Jeff's presentation will review recent and current research in which his group is involved, covering topics such as: acoustic cluster therapy (ACT) for ultrasound-targeted improvement of tumour response to treatment, clinical trial of ACT, an organ-in-chip approach to optimising ACT, elastography for assessment of lymphoedema, photoacoustic imaging of reversible optically switchable chromophores for tracking immune cells to assist research on CAR-T cell therapy of solid tumours, and ionacoustic imaging of the pulse-by-pulse 3D dose distribution in proton therapy.

 

Who can attend?