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The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences celebrates two Cancer Research UK awards for colorectal cancer research

NDS is celebrating the achievements of Professor Simon Buczacki and Dr Alex Gordon-Weeks, who have both received CRUK Discovery Programme Awards — a rare double success for a single university department.

Dr Alex Gordon-Weeks and Professor Simon Buczacki

Professor Simon Buczacki

Professor Simon Buczacki, Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery at NDS, has been awarded a CRUK Discovery Programme Foundation Award for his project titled 'Stem cell signatures of mutational order in colorectal cancer.

Dr Alex Gordon-Weeks

Dr Alex Gordon-Weeks, Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon and Clinical Lecturer at NDS, has been granted a CRUK Discovery Programme Award for his project titled 'Defining mechanisms of T cell dysfunction in liver metastases of colorectal cancer.'

 

Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Surgical Science website.

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