Researchers at the Jack Birch Unit @biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social revealed how direct communication between cells can help maintain healthy tissue, potentially paving the way for new bladder cancer treatments 🔬 Open access paper in Life Science Alliance doi.org/10.26508/lsa... 🔓 📄

So pleased to have our findings published this last week! We study how Connexin 32 gap junctions help normal urothelium to resist invasive characteristics, with implications for luminal muscle invasive bladder cancers. www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/5/...

For World Cancer Day, we're shining a spotlight on Dr Simon Baker and his team at the University of York, and their research into BK virus and bladder cancer. Read more the research here: https://bit.ly/4pjXEvr

What causes bladder cancer initiating mutations? Our paper in Science Advances asks the question: can BK virus infections of normal urothelium lead to the APOBEC3 mutational signatures found in bladder cancers? We found that they can!

Interested in #bladdercancer? Come to the Bladder Cancer Translational Research Meeting in Brimingham on the 28th Feb. I'm presenting on APOBECs and cancer initiation. Prof Maria De Santis is talking about treating metastatic disease and loads more exciting speakers. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/7th-b...

Nice review on Metastatic non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Great work www.nature.com/articles/s41... .....

Lovely to see our biology phlebotomy team being recognised! 🤩

PhD project with Ioannis Kourtzelis, our lab and Mesenbio in lovely York! Macrophage, EV and innate immune responses, what's not to love! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exciting PhD opportunity in my group, a prestigious CASE Yorkshire Bioscience DTP studentship. We are looking for candidates with the passion to work on a project that aims to transform the lives of cancer patients worldwide! The project is in collaboration with @tsakiridis.bsky.social