Skip to main content
Blizard Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
  1. Blizard Institute
  2. Staff news and announcements
  3. Items

Barts Centre for Squamous Cancer Annual Symposium 2023

The symposium will include an international keynote address from Professor Paolo Dotto (Harvard/Lausanne, and President of the International Cancer Prevention Institute), and a series of short talks showcasing squamous cancer research at QMUL and throughout the UK. 

Published:

Date: Wednesday 26 April, 1:00 – 5:00pm 

Venue: Clark-Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary Innovation Centre, Walden Street, Whitechapel, London 

Also live online 

Please register for free at www.qmul.ac.uk/bcsc 

Confirmed speakers (in approx. running order): 

  • Ryan O'Shaughnessy, QMUL. 'Understanding AKT signalling in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma'. 
  • Gernot Walko, QMUL. 'The roles of Hippo/YAP/TAZ signalling in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma'. 
  • Phil Jones, Cambridge. 'Pro and anti-oncogenic mutants in squamous precancer'. 
  • Irene Leigh, QMUL. 'An introduction to the Barts Centre for Squamous Cancer'. 
  • Paolo Dotto, Harvard/Lausanne (international keynote). 'Skin aging and cancer: a sex hormones perspective'. 
  • Jennifer Deane, Newcastle. 'Inequalities in the pathway to a diagnosis of head and neck cancer'. 
  • Anson Mackay, patient speaker. 'A patient perspective on HPV-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma during pandemic'. 

For queries, please contact: Adrian Biddle – a.biddle@qmul.ac.uk

Adrian Biddle, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Blizard Institute

 

 

Back to top