The tale of the Campus: from test tube to treatment

Cambridge Science Festival - a personalised approach to cancer medicine. Try out our fun science activities on Sunday 26 March 11.00-16.00.

Come along to the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute this Sunday to find out about the incredible advances our scientists are making in detecting and treating cancer.

We are open to the public from 11.00 until 16.00 where there will be lots of fun science activities aimed at families - from extracting DNA from a strawberry and making a cell balloon to looking at cancer cells under the microscope and taking a virtual reality tour around a laboratory.

Scientists from the CRUK Cambridge Institute, the MRC Cancer Unit and the Cambridge Blood and Stem Cell Biobank will be on hand to explain how their research is helping to detect cancer earlier and find better, kinder treatments for the disease.

The following talks will also be taking place in the lecture theatre:

12.15-1.00 Metabolism and cancer – Dr Vincent Zecchini, MRC Cancer Unit

1.00-1.45 Imaging cancer – members of the CRUK & EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Cambridge and Manchester explain some of the cutting-edge imaging techniques being used in cancer research

1.45-2.30 Cancer: exactly the wrong events, in exactly the wrong order – Dr Ben Hall, MRC- Cancer Unit

Please click on the links above to book tickets for these talks or just turn up on the day. 

The CRUK Cambridge Institute is one of three zones on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus open to public on Sunday 26 March for The tale of the Campus: from test tube to treatment.

Find out why the Cambridge Biomedical Campus is so important to developing the treatments and healthcare of the future when the Cambridge Science Festival comes to the site.

The Campus is home to many things - two much loved hospitals, world-leading pharmaceutical companies, world leading researchers and the University’s School of Clinical Medicine among many others.

At the Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre, Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute and the University Technical College, visitors from across the county and the local community will have the opportunity to see what is happening on the Campus and learn about the science behind healthcare innovation.

In addition to the hands-on activities at the CRUK Cambridge Institute, across the site there will be lots of things to see and do including:
• Book a tour of an operating theatre and seize the chance to visit the teddy bear clinic
• Discover how blood cancers are diagnosed and wander through an inflatable colon
• Become a ‘worm neuroscientist’ and discover how a tiny worm is helping us to understand how our neurons work.
• Join metabolic scientists for hands-on activities and games, and take a closer look at how our bodies turn the food we eat into the energy we need to move, think and grow.
• Visit UTC Cambridge and role up your sleeves to experience the excitement of science in the UTC Challenge Labs.
• Delve into a world full of discovery with Papworth Hospital, one of the largest heart and lung hospitals in Europe. Get up close and personal with exciting activities that are saving people’s lives at the hospital.
• Discover more about the new buildings under construction and the next phase of development at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Malcolm Lowe-Lauri, Executive Director of Cambridge University Health Partners, said: “It is great to welcome back the Cambridge Science Festival to the Biomedical Campus. It will be a fantastic opportunity to explore some of the life-changing medical research which is taking place here, how new treatments are being developed and how we have become the UK capital of life sciences. So come and visit us on Sunday 26 March - ask questions, take part in hands-on experiments and explore the impact we are having as a Campus.”

For more information about the Cambridge Science Festival activities across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus visit www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk and to book activities go to www.cuhp.org.uk/events.


22 Mar 2017