Photo opportunity 3.45pm, Tuesday 10 December, West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road, Dundee.
How do scientific breakthroughs such as the discovery of p53 become clinical treatments for patients? And how do scientists who rarely see patients know what they are looking to do at their lab bench to cure cancer? Translating science to the wards requires much discussion between scientists and doctors, but today at the University of Dundee both groups are concentrating on discovering how they can help each other to find new ways to tackle cancer.
Award winning researchers Dario Alessi and Jason Swedlow from the School of Life Sciences and Sir David Lane and Alastair Thompson from Surgery and Molecular Oncology are some of the scientists and clinicians who will present their projects at the West Park Conference Centre today. The researchers will then move into informal discussions where they can talk about new ideas that have sprung from their talks.
Alastair Thompson said: "The cancer forum is absolutely essential in our work to get scientists and clinicians talking about the best ways they can collaborate to tackle cancer. If the scientists know what the doctors need, and the doctors are aware of what the scientists can do and discover, then the whole process of new and effective treatments is speeded up - making better treatments available for patients sooner.
We have some of the country's leading scientists and clinicians working at the University of Dundee and they are here today to put their minds together to come up with new ideas. It is a very exciting day for all involved in cancer research and treatment."
By Jenny Marra, Press Officer 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk