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Jul Dr Shimrit Mayer is awarded a Women’s Postdoctoral Career Development Award in Science by the Weizmann Institute of Science. Congratulations!
Jul Dr Raza Ali attends the British Association of Cancer Research Tumour Microenvironment Meeting in Nottingham, UK as a speaker.
Jun Ellen Schrader attends the AI x BIO conference - Wellcome Connecting Science in Cambridge.
Jun Dr Neus Masque Soler attends the EACR Conference in Budapest, Hungary.
May Dr Lubna Ahmad presents at the In Situ Hybridisation and Spatial Omics Symposium, Cambridge.
May Dr Raza Ali attends the EACR Cancer Genomics, Multiomics and Computational Biology Meeting in Essen, Germany.
May Dr Shimrit Mayer attends the 1st European Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium in Bergen, Norway.
Apr Paula Wagner joins the Lab for a 3-month internship.
Apr Dr Shimrit Mayer and Caroline Caruso Carter attend the Symposium Workshop for Women+s Cancers in Cambridge.
Apr Dr Lubna Ahmad attends the AACR Conference in San Diego, USA as a speaker.
April Eric Jou joins the Lab as a Medical Fellow
Mar Our latest paper by Master student Pulkit Gupta and collaborators is now out in Nature Aging!
Titled Single-cell spatial atlas of the aging human breast, this work spatially profiles 527 healthy breast tissues across a wide array of ages. Read more.
Mar Dr Raza Ali becomes a Senior Group Leader after his tenure review!
Dec Lubna Ahmad successfully defended her viva. Congratulations, Dr Ahmad!
Nov Dr Shimrit Mayer attends the Opportunities in Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer Meeting at GSK, Stevenage.
Nov Dr Shimrit Mayer attended the 2nd European CyTOF congress in Vienna, Austria, as a speaker.
Nov Lubna Ahmad gave a talk at the international conference: Leading Towards Innovation in Oncology Through New Drug Development and Artificial Intelligence in Milan, Italy.
Oct Ellen Schrader, one of our PhD students, attended the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB) conference in Heidelberg, where she won a poster prize!
Oct Two new members join the Ali Lab: Carolina Moretti Ierardi as a PhD student and Sridatta Teerdhala as a Master student.
Sep Dr Matteo Naldini is awarded an ESMO Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
Aug Ayane Nakamura joins the Ali Lab as a visiting PhD Student.
Jun Dr Matteo Naldini joins the Ali Lab as a Research Associate.
Jun Dr Raza Ali attends the EACR Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, as an invited speaker.
May Dr Raza Ali joins the CRUK Clinical Research Committee in London.
Mar Dr Shimrit Mayer and Dr Raza Ali attend the Data Driven Discovery for Women+s Cancers Symposium in Cambridge, UK.
Jan The PhD Applicant Symposium took place from the 15th to the 17th of January, with candidates' presentations and interviews.
Jan Dr Shimrit Mayer is awarded the Wellbeing of Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the British Gynaecological Cancer Society. Congratulations!
Dec The Ali Lab attended the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB) conference in Berlin, where our postdoc Shimrit Mayer won a poster prize!
Dec Dr Raza Ali attends the Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, USA as a speaker.
Dec Ciccy Wang, the very fist PhD student of the Ali Lab, successfully defended her viva. Congratulations, Dr Wang!
Nov Dr Raza Ali attends the BACR New Developments in Breast Cancer Research Symposium in Newcastle, UK as a speaker.
Oct Dr Raza Ali attends the EMBO workshop in Rome, Italy as a speaker.
Oct Dr Raza Ali attends the The Francis Crick Institute Cancer Research Symposium in London as a speaker.
Oct Dr Raza Ali attends the The Francis Crick Institute Cancer Research Symposium in London as a speaker.
Sep Dr Atif Khan joins the Ali Lab as a Research Associate.
Sep Dr Raza Ali attends the Cancer Research Karolinska Institute annual retreat in Stockholm, Sweden as a speaker.
July Dr Raza Ali participates at the Integrated Cancer Medicine Symposium in Cambridge as a speaker.
June Join us at the Inaugural conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology in Berlin this December!
The early bird and abstract deadline is the 31st of July. Click here to learn more about the ESSB and to see the conference details.
May Dr Raza Ali participates at the 20th anniversary edition Oncoforum- Leuven, Belgium as a speaker.
May Dr Raza Ali participates at the CCBIO 12th Annual Symposium in Bergen, Norway as a speaker.
Apr The inaugural conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB) is announced to take place this December. Join us in Berlin!
The ESSB is a non-profit organization run by scientists dedicated to the fascinating world of spatial biology. More information here.
Apr Caroline Caruso Carter joins the Ali Lab as a Research Assistant.
Jan Dr Raza Ali participates at the 15th Cancer Crosslinks series in Oslo, Norway as a speaker.
Dec Our News and Views written by PhD student Ellen Schrader and Dr Raza Ali about CellCharter is out now in Nature Genetics!
With the current explosion of spatial data in biomedical research and the continued advances in AI, new tools are emerging to increase our knowledge of spatial biology. A computational tool by Varrone et al., CellCharter combines deep learning with spatial clustering to discover local niches and it is compatible with a wide array of datasets. Read more.
Nov Dr Raza Ali participates at the AACR-KCA Joint Conference on Precision Medicine in Cancer in Seoul, Korea as a speaker.
Oct Dr Raza Ali attends the AACR Special Conference Advances in Breast Cancer Research in San Diego, California as a speaker.
Sep Our latest paper by PhD student Ciccy Wang and collaborators is now out in Nature! Spatial predictors of immunotherapy response in triple-negative breast cancer.
This work discovers spatial biomarkers to predict immunotherapy response in triple negative breast cancer. Read more.
Sep Dr Raza Ali attends the Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) seminar series in Oslo, Norway as a Topic Lecturer.
Sep Dr Shimrit Mayer joins the Ali Lab as an Associate Researcher.
Sep Pulkit Gupta joins the Ali Lab as a Master Student.
Jul Shukri Muse joins the Ali Lab as a Summer School Student.
Jun Dr Raza Ali participates at the annual meeting of the German Society of Pathology in Leipzig, Germany as a Topic Lecturer.
Jun Dr Raza Ali attends the EACR 2023 Congress in Torino, Italy with an oral presentation and as part of a “meet the experts” session.
Apr Dr Raza Ali attends the AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA as a chair and speaker.
Apr Ellen Schrader joins the Ali Lab as a Research Assistant.
Mar Dr Raza Ali participates at the EACR-OECI Joint Conference on “Molecular Pathology Approach to Cancer” in Bergamo, Italy as a Keynote speaker.
Feb Dr Liliana Angeles-Martinez joins the Ali Lab as a Research Associate.
Dec Dr Raza Ali participates at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) in San Antonio, Texas, USA with an oral presentation.
Nov Dr Raza Ali participates at the Swedish Tumor Microenvironment network (STorM) in Stockholm, Sweden as a Keynote speaker.
Nov The Ali Lab is awarded a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant
The grant will fund research into immunotherapy and the tumour microenvironment in breast cancer. Read more.
Oct Dr Neus Masqué-Soler joins the Ali Lab as a Senior Research Associate.
Sep Ciccy Wang participates at the MiTraC Symposium in Mainz, Germany with an oral presentation.
Jun Ciccy Wang participates at the International PhD Student Cancer Conference (IPSCC) in Heidelberg, Germany with an oral presentation.
Apr New publication in Nature Genetics
Breast tumor microenvironment structures are associated with genomic features and clinical outcome. Read more
