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From Ideas to Innovation

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From Ideas to Innovation

We are extremely pleased to announce we've launched a new meeting for our funded researchers in April 2024. 

After reaching out to a number of our funded researchers we asked how we can best support our research community to enable you to accelerate the impact of your research, ensuring the results of your hard work have the best chance of benefiting the lives of those affected by prostate cancer. 

The clear call from this insight was to provide a meeting where researchers can network, disseminate unpublished results, establish new links and explore new collaborations. Our ambition is to provide you with that opportunity in From Ideas to Innovation. 

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See you in April!

We will be hosted by the Royal College of General Practitioners at 30 Euston Square, London on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 April 2024.

Registration is now full - Complete this form to join our waitlist.

Latest updates

We can't wait to see you in April, but we understand that things come up and you may no longer be able to attend. If you're no longer able to join us please let us know,  we have a growing wait-list of researchers wanting to attend and we want to make sure as many researchers as possible are able to join us!

Our survey is now closed. Thank you to those who took the time to choose topics to discuss.

Keep your eye on the agenda below as we'll update the sessions when we have more information to share. 

For those presenting posters you should have emails in your inbox letting you know which day you'll be presenting.

  • If you're presenting on Day 1 we ask you to be by your poster for the drinks reception
  • If you're presenting on Day 2 we ask you to be by your poster in the coffee breaks

All posters should be no larger than A1-you can choose whether they are landscape or portrait.

If you have any questions reach out to us

We’ve now met with all the speakers taking part in From Ideas to Innovation and the agenda now reflects the order of speakers. We have some very exciting sessions planned for you!

A meeting for researchers designed by researchers

We want to make sure this event serves our funded research community as best as it can, so we didn't want to make assumptions on what you need. We invited you to be part of our Scientific Organising Committee, and we are delighted that so many of you accepted our call. 

Members of our Scientific Organising Committee are: 

Professor Charlotte Bevan, Imperial College London

Dr Mick Brown, University of Manchester

Dr Victoria Dunne, Queens University Belfast

Professor David Elliott, Newcastle University

Dr Asma Ahmed Hassan Elshiekh, University of Glasgow

Dr Claire Fletcher, Imperial College London

Dr Susan Heavey, University College London

Dr Jennie Jeyapalan, University of Nottingham 

Dr Alan McWilliam, University of Manchester

Professor Paula Mendes, University of Birmingham

Dr Emma Scott, University of Newcastle

Professor Greg Shaw, University College London

Dr Ning Wang, University of Leicester

Dr Jason Webber, Swansea University.

Fi2i SOC Asma Ahmed Hassan Elshiekh
Fi2i SOC Claire Fletcher

Sessions and Speakers

Want to know who is speaking in each session of From Ideas to Innovation? See the schedules below for days 1 and 2!

*This current schedule may be subject to change closer to April 2024*

Day 1

Sessions and Speakers for Day 1 of From Ideas to Innovation.

Registration will be held at 30 Euston Square, London, NW1 2FB, United Kingdom.

Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Dr. Matt Hobbs, Prostate Cancer UK

Chiara de Biase, Prostate Cancer UK

Professor Jan van der Meulen, Department of Health Services Research and Policy and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Noel Clarke, The Christie and Salford Royal Hospitals, Manchester

Co-chairs:

Emeka Ojimba, 

Dr Jane Shortall,  University of Manchester

 

Speakers:

Emeka Ojimba

Dr Tanimola Martins, University of Exeter

Dr Jana McHugh, Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Dan Brewer, University of East Anglia

Dr Abraham Gihawi, University of East Anglia

Dr Claire Fletcher, Imperial College London

Hot lunch will be provided.

Co-chairs:

Paul Dennington, Session chair

Dr Jennie Jeyapalan, University of Nottingham

 

Speakers:

Paul Dennington

Dr Tristan Barrett, University of Cambridge

Professor Paula Mendes, University of Birmingham

Dr Veeru Kasivisvanathan, University College London

Dr Shonit Punwani, University College London

Prostate Cancer UK Research Team

Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Co-chairs:

Gary Reeves

Dr Corinne Woodcock, University of Nottingham

 

Speakers:

Gary Reeves

Professor Hing Y. Leung, University of Glasgow

Dr Jason Webber, Swansea University

Professor Yong-Jie Lu, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Ashwin Sachdeva, University of Manchester

Dr Alan McWilliam, University of Manchester

Professor Hing Y. Leung, University of Glasgow

Co-chairs:

Robert Dimmick

Professor David Elliot, University of Newcastle

 

Speakers:

Robert Dimmick

Professor Greg Shaw, University College London

Professor Suneil Jain, Queen's University Belfast

Professor Rob Bristow, University of Manchester

Professor Ian Mills, University of Oxford

Dr Adriana Buskin, University of Newcastle

Dr Anastasia Hepburn, University of Newcastle

 

Networking opportunity. 

Day 2

Sessions and Speakers for Day 2 of From Ideas to Innovation.

Co-Chairs:

Martin Wells

Dr Demi Pritchard, Swansea University

 

Speakers: 

Martin Wells

Dr Ning Wang, University of Leicester

Professor Gert Attard, University College London

Dr Alison Tree, The Institute of Cancer Research

Dr Julia Murray, The Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Emma Hall, The Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Jayne Tierney, University College London

Dr Claire Vale, University College London

Co-chairs:

Tony Collier, BEM

Dr Susan Heavey, University College London

 

Speakers:

Professor Charlotte Bevan, Imperial College London

Professor Jason Carroll, University of Cambridge

Professor Johann de Bono, The Institute of Cancer Research

Dr Emma Scott, University of Newcastle

Dr Eileen Parkes, University of Oxford

Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Co-chairs:

Gary Hooker

Dr Simon McDade, Queens University Belfast

 

Speakers:

Professor Simon MacKay, University of Strathclyde

Professor Helen McCarthy, Queen’s University Belfast

Professor Jonathan Coulter, Queen’s University Belfast

Professor Val Macaulay, University of Oxford

Professor Clare Verrill, University of Oxford

Gary Hooker, Co-chair

Hot lunch will be provided.

The networking sessions will be during this extended lunch break.

Grab your lunch then join us in the auditorium for small break-out discussions on topics chosen through our networking survey. 

We'll run two networking sessions at 13:00 and 14:00. In each session we'll break-out into smaller groups to tackle challenges from striking a work/life balance, how to commercialise your research, to Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies. 

 

Part #1 of our future directions session:

Co-chairs:

Patrick Williams

Dr Kelly Coffey, University of Newcastle

 

Speakers:

Dr Abraham Gihawi, University of East Anglia

Dr Veeru Kasivisvanathan, University College London

Dr Rachel Barker, University of Bristol

Refreshments and snacks will be provided

Part #2 of our Future directions session: 

Co-chairs:

Patrick Williams

Dr Kelly Coffey, University of Newcastle

 

Speakers:

Dr Juan Manuel Jiménez Vacas, The Institute of Cancer Research

Dr Joe Taylor, The Institute of Cancer Research

Dr Asma Ahmed Hassan Elshiekh, University of Glasgow

Dr Emma Scott, University of Newcastle

Dr Victoria Dunne, Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Edward O'Neill, University of Oxford

Laura Kerby, Prostate Cancer UK

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