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Samra Turajlic is the Director of Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Christie and also leads the Cancer Dynamics research group.

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In the driving seat: Samra Turajlić on data ethics, cancer evolution and patient-centred research

We caught up with newly appointed Director of the CRUK Manchester Institute, Samra Turajlić to talk data ethics, cancer evolution and the future of pa...

by Phil Prime
| Interview

9 December 2025

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Spin doctors: taking on the challenge of tissue-specific cell cycle control

A false start, a Nobel Prize and renewed hope – understanding cell cycle disruption over different tissues is complex. But we are getting there…

by Cancer Research UK | In depth | 27 November 2025

27 November 2025

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Exploring the survival tactics of childhood cancers

Lava-dwelling lizards, cells playing dead and a century-old evolutionary theory – understanding the way childhood cancers resist treatment is proving ...

by Cancer Research UK | In depth | 18 November 2025

18 November 2025

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Data science - are we chatting away scientific integrity?

LLMs are impressive yet they also pose a threat to science. The first column in our new series on data science gets into the dichotomy...

by Cancer Research UK | Analysis | 11 November 2025

11 November 2025

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cell cycle

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Spin doctors: taking on the challenge of tissue-specific cell cycle control

A false start, a Nobel Prize and renewed hope – understanding cell cycle disruption over different tissues is complex. But we are getting there…

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

27 November 2025

DNA and cells

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Exploring the survival tactics of childhood cancers

Lava-dwelling lizards, cells playing dead and a century-old evolutionary theory – understanding the way childhood cancers resist treatment is proving ...

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

18 November 2025

metastasis

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Getting to grips with the metastatic niche

Understanding how cancer spreads to distant parts of the body is a formidable challenge - but understanding it could be a real clinical breakthrough.....

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

4 November 2025

Whale

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Animal instincts: Exploring nature’s oncologist

Can we pick apart how evolution has suppressed cancer in some species? Alex Cagen is attempting exactly that by going beyond mouse models… way beyond.

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

27 October 2025

For Researchers

Spin doctors: taking on the challenge of tissue-specific cell cycle control

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

27 November 2025

For Researchers

Exploring the survival tactics of childhood cancers

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

18 November 2025

For Researchers

Getting to grips with the metastatic niche

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

4 November 2025

For Researchers

Animal instincts: Exploring nature’s oncologist

by Cancer Research UK
| In depth

27 October 2025

For Researchers | In depth

Podcasts

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Start-up – forging your own path

This episode of our deep dive into all things science entrepreneurship takes a look at the big moment... starting up your own company!

by Phil Prime
| Podcast

17 December 2024

For Researchers

Cancer Research Matters - Entrepreneurial deep dive

This episode of our deep dive into all things science entrepreneurship takes a look at the skills you'll need to sharpen up to be successful...

by Phil Prime | Podcast | 26 November 2024

26 November 2024

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Cancer Research Matters - Entrepreneurial deep dive

Getting findings from discovery research in the lab to a tangible intervention can be daunting. This series aims to de-mystify the various routes you ...

by Phil Prime | Podcast | 11 November 2024

11 November 2024

For Researchers

The Appraisal - Can we create a nation of entrepreneurial life scientists?

Time to get some big-picture thinking on all things research reward and recognition from Iain Foulkes...

by Phil Prime | Podcast | 28 November 2023

28 November 2023

For Researchers | Podcast

Analysis

Data science column

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Data science - are we chatting away scientific integrity?

by Cancer Research UK
| Analysis

11 November 2025

Careers

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Research careers – a new approach for clinical academics

by Cancer Research UK
| Analysis

14 October 2025

ageing

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Can uniting ageing and cancer research help cancer prevention?

by Cancer Research UK
| Analysis

27 August 2025

For Researchers | Analysis

Interviews

Samra Turajlic is the Director of Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Christie and also leads the Cancer Dynamics research group.

For Researchers

In the driving seat: Samra Turajlić on data ethics, cancer evolution and patient-centred research

We caught up with newly appointed Director of the CRUK Manchester Institute, Samra Turajlić to talk data ethics, cancer evolution and the future of pa...

by Phil Prime
| Interview

9 December 2025

ruth-etzioni

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A model citizen for early detection

Fresh from her Impact Award, Professor Ruth Etzioni talks mathematical models, overdiagnosis and why modellers must explain their working…

by Phil Prime
| Interview

23 October 2025

For Researchers | Interview