Jessica Taylor is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the CRUK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK who received an EACR Travel Fellowship to visit and work at the Memorial Sloan Kettering...
Peter B. Medawar, the Nobel Prize-winning immunologist EACR member Tiainla Jamir shares her personal highlights from the book 'Advice to a Young Scientist' by Peter B. Medawar. Peter B. Medawar, a Nobel...
As part of the EACR’s #KeepResearchCurious campaign we recently hosted a panel with four expert guests to discuss the importance of curiosity-driven research in advancing medical breakthroughs. In this video, Dr Helen...
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...
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