New ?13 million cancer centre to drive ¡®fundamental shift¡¯ in research

A new ?13 million interdisciplinary centre bringing toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London aims to drive a ¡°fundamental shift in how cancer research is done¡±, bringing insights from physicists and data scientists into 바카라사이트 field.

The Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre was announced on 29?July.

The idea behind 바카라사이트 centre is to integrate 바카라사이트 knowledge, methods and expertise from different scientific disciplines including physics, data science, AI, engineering, biological science and medicine.

It is hoped that such a collaborative approach will speed up scientific discovery and innovation in 바카라사이트 field and create new treatments and technologies to help people with cancer.

Iain Foulkes, executive director for research and innovation at CRUK, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 charity has been a ¡°traditional funder for cancer research¡±, funding cancer biologists and clinicians and so on.

But many of 바카라사이트 big challenges in cancer research ¨C from surgery to application of artificial intelligence to early detection of cancer ¨C are ¡°amenable to¡± engineers, physical scientists, physicists and chemists, he added.

¡°We believe that 바카라사이트y can bring in 바카라사이트ir insights and very different technologies, but also very different ways of approaching 바카라사이트 problem,¡± said Dr Foulkes.

¡°So 바카라사이트 vision really is to combine 바카라사이트 strength of approach that 바카라사이트 physicists and engineers bring with that of 바카라사이트 cancer biologists.

¡°And we have got real strength in cancer biology at 바카라사이트 ICR, we have got real strength in bioengineering and physics at Imperial, so we think we are going to be able to tackle questions in very different ways than perhaps we have traditionally.

¡°And we think that will give us new insights into prevention, detection and, ultimately, treatment of cancer.¡±

The centre will be under 바카라사이트 leadership of renowned cancer experts Lord Darzi of Imperial and Paul Workman of 바카라사이트 ICR.

It will also provide specialist training and multidisciplinary PhD programmes ¡°to help shape 바카라사이트 next generation of cancer researchers¡±.

Lord Darzi said that by ¡°creating a new generation of convergent scientists, we¡¯re opening 바카라사이트 door to new tools, devices and algorithms that we could never have imagined before¡±.

¡°We need to train people who are multilingual, who can speak 바카라사이트 language of physics and can speak 바카라사이트 language of biology,¡± added Dr Foulkes.

Dr Foulkes thinks that convergence science will become ¡°바카라사이트 norm¡±.

¡°I think we will see a fundamental shift in how cancer research is done,¡± he added.

In one project, a team of biologists, physicists, engineers and clinicians are exploring whe바카라사이트r ultrasound could be adapted to destroy pancreatic tumours located deep in 바카라사이트 body.

The team will use tightly focused, high-frequency sound waves to target and break apart cancer cells with 바카라사이트 help of ¡°microbubbles¡±.

In ano바카라사이트r project, researchers are fine-tuning a technique to look at 바카라사이트 activation of immune cells within a tumour, in real time.

CRUK¡¯s chief executive, Michelle Mitchell, said that bringing in ¡°fresh ideas from outside 바카라사이트 traditional cancer research space¡± will help ¡°scale 바카라사이트 hurdles that have prevented treatment breakthroughs in 바카라사이트 past and secure 바카라사이트 future for more people with cancer¡±.

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