Tag: The Cancer Researcher-EACR Science Communication Prize
The Longest Two Minutes of my Scientific Career
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...
Presenting at Parliament
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,...
“From Breakdown to Breakthrough: My Success Story”: WINNER of the 2nd...
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’: EACR Science Communication Prize 2021
Have you ever wanted to write a blog? Have you already written a blog but want to write more? Now is your chance! Enter...
A series of (un) planned events
by Joanne Tiphania Kotelawala
A bright new morn
Don’t start the day with a yawn
There we stand fuelled by coffee
And hoping to work on that coat...
Don’t lose sight of what a great job cancer researchers have
Whether we like to admit it or not we are each making a tiny step towards ultimately eradicating this varied and devastating disease.
by Kabir...
The long road to animal studies
by Lydia Dyck
Animal work is a big part of cancer research. Many researchers are using animal models to figure out how cancer develops and...
“Sorry, my keyboard doesn’t have a key for the figure in...
by Venu Thatikonda
I generate a number of beautiful figures in a day and look at them like a mother looks at her newborn baby.
Every...
“Life of Sci”
by Bethan Rogoyski
The book Life of Pi describes the odyssey of a young man and his tiger trying to get home after capsizing at sea....
10 ways to keep busy during 5-minute incubations
by Cora Olpe
Today I would like to discuss one of the wet lab scientist’s biggest mental challenges: The 5-minute incubation. Often encountered during immunohistochemistry or...
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EACR 2024 Annual Congress in review: “Interacting with some of the...
We were delighted to welcome the cancer research community to Rotterdam, Netherlands for the EACR Annual Congress 2024: Innovative Cancer Science between 10 -...