We introduce KRAS Kickers during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 2022
Through social media, we recently encountered a patient-led, KRAS-specific patient advocacy organisation called KRAS Kickers. They are doing stellar work for those affected by the KRAS biomarker. We made contact, met via a Zoom call with founder Terri Conneran, and [...]
COLOSSUS meets with its Scientific Advisory Board
The COLOSSUS partners held an online meeting with the Project’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) on 11 March 2022. The team presented all our work to date and summarised results so far. Members of the SAB in attendance included experts in [...]
COLOSSUS research presented by Aoife Nolan, UCD at IACR meeting in Cork
University College Dublin's PhD candidate Aoife Nolan facilitated an oral poster presentation entitled "Investigation of KRAS mutant Effect on Cell Signalling and Protein Expression Profiles in Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer" featuring her COLOSSUS research at the 2022 conference of the [...]
COLOSSUS collaborative publication in Clinical Cancer Research
Congratulations to researchers Adam Lafferty, Alice C O'Farrell, Giorgia Migliardi, Niraj Khemka, Andreas U Lindner, Francesco Sassi, Eugenia R Zanella, Manuela Salvucci, Evy Vanderheyden, Elodie Modave, Bram Boeckx, Luise Halang, Johannes Betge, Matthias P A Ebert, Patrick Dicker, Guillem Argilés, Josep Tabernero, Rodrigo Dienstmann, Enzo Medico, Diether Lambrechts, Andrea Bertotti, Claudio Isella, Livio Trusolino, Jochen H M Prehn, Annette T Byrne of which many [...]
Prof. Annette Byrne and COLOSSUS case study featured by RCSI Research Impact
An interview with COLOSSUS Coordinator Professor Annette Byrne, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – University of Medicine and Health Sciences (RCSI) entitled: "International collaboration: A precision medicine approach to treating metastatic colorectal cancer" was conducted in late February [...]
Publication news from Prof. Livio Trusolino’s Group at the U of Torino
Publication news from our partners at the University of Torino: an article entitled 'Effective drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer cells' was published in Nature in collaboration with Mathew Garnett, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. In it, the [...]