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Latest winner in our Research is Beautiful competition

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by Cancer Research UK | In depth

25 March 2026

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Endothelial cells

Our relaunched Research is Beautiful image competition continues to inspire with some fantastic entries, and there will be a winner each month – here’s the successful image for March!

This entry is part 15 of 16 in the series Research is Beautiful
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Our Research is Beautiful image campaign highlights images that showcase your research – from your science, to the people in your lab and everything that surrounds it.

Congratulations to Jonathan Burden, a postdoctoral research assistant at the Barts Cancer Institute for his winning image. It captures endothelial cells branching toward a stimulus generated by cancer cells.

In this image, endothelial cells (in pink) can be seen branching toward a stimulus generated by cancer cells.
Dr Jonathan Burden is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Barts Cancer Institute.
Dr Jonathan Burden is a postdoctoral research assistant at the Barts Cancer Institute.

Jonathan says: “In the body, endothelial cells migrate along a stimulus gradient toward regions of low oxygen supply – a process often hijacked in tumours.

“We have replicated this directional movement in microfluidic angiogenesis chips to better understand how breast cancer cells secrete factors that stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in tumours.”

Send your images!

To enter, e-mail your photos to [email protected]

Include a short caption, your contact details and an image of yourself. Images should be sent as JPEG files and, ideally, be at least 2000px. Feel free to email this address if you have any questions.

Each month, a panel of CRUK staff will review the submissions and choose the best image(s) that month. Successful entrants will be notified directly and will be awarded £100 in book tokens. The image(s) will be showcased on Cancer News for Researchers and our social-media platform LinkedIn.

The campaign is open to UK residents aged 18 or over. Please ensure before submitting an entry that you have read the campaign terms and conditions.

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