The Cancer Researcher

by Caitrín Crudden Remember those childhood summers that seemed to go on for eternity? The memories of which are tinged in yellow, blurry and warm? The field next to my childhood home...

by Amila Suraweera The saying “publish or perish” resonates with every scientist. Publishing is our bread and butter and without it, our research careers cannot survive. Like most scientists, I am very...

by Cemre Ucaryilmaz “When you have cancer and are treated with chemotherapy, it basically kills your body. But if you succeed at waking up the next morning and smile at yourself in the mirror,...

Cédric Blanpain Cédric Blanpain has been announced as the winner of the European Association for Cancer Research’s Mike Price Gold Medal Award, a biennial award recognising a senior researcher who has made...

by Anurag Srivastava "I want to quit everything and go back to India", I said to my PI one afternoon in May. The devastating second wave of corona in India had impacted...

by Daniel Jacobson My science success story came tumbling down at around 6pm in early January 2020. As a 24-year-old, second-year PhD student, I hesitate to refer to any previous achievements as...

The EACR Members' Science Book Club recently had a Zoom session to discuss "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi. This was the sixth book that the Book Club has read and...

by Fiona Malcomson Politicians are not my usual audience and the House of Commons is not my usual auditorium. I normally present at scientific meetings, with PhD students, Post Docs and Professors...

This summer, we invited cancer researchers at all levels to write a blog post for the second EACR Science Communication Prize around the theme "My Science Success Story". Like the previous award...