The Cancer Researcher

The EU-funded project EuCanImage, in which the EACR is a partner, was proud to represent its project at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2025 in Vienna, Austria, (26 February to 02 March...

Before I start this blog post, I shall introduce my lab members. But for privacy reasons, I’ll use only their first initials. Meet the team My colleague S, a postdoc in the...

Curiosity has always been a powerful driver of scientific discovery, leading to breakthroughs that have transformed our understanding of the world and significantly improved human health. Think about how Alexander Fleming discovered...

Have you ever thought what really drives research? Most people, not involved in this area, think that for successful research you need good logic and scientific thinking, the ability to analyse data...

I recently read the autobiography of Katalin Kariko, scientist behind the BioNTech COVID19 vaccine. Truly there is no better description of a curiosity-driven researcher. She describes her life growing up in rural...

My name is Ieva Ailte and I am a molecular biologist. I have been doing cancer research for 15 years. I started my career by doing fundamental cell research at the age...

Merve Soganci is a PhD student at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey who received an EACR Travel Fellowship to visit and work at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden between September and December...

Marta Kovatcheva, Group Leader at the AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology in Italy, is the deserving 2025 recipient of the EACR-Mark Foundation-Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award. This award is open to EACR...

Julie Mazet, Christina Metoikidou, and Martha Zarou have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the prestigious EACR-Mark Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. This highly competitive fellowship, established through a partnership between the European...