2024 UCL Cancer Symposium

Date and time: Wednesday 1 May | 9am - 5pm (exact times tbc)

Venue: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London, WC1N 1EH

We are delighted to announce that registrations for the 2024 UCL Cancer Symposium are now open!

The Symposium, organised by the UCL Cancer Domain, is UCL’s flagship cross-faculty cancer research event, showcasing the incredible range of exciting and impactful research taking place at UCL. The event connects researchers from a uniquely wide range of disciplines, across all career levels, and showcases UCL’s leading position in this field.

We are very pleased to be able to announce a keynote address from Professor Charles Swanton. Other session themes and talks will include childhood cancer, health data in cancer research, and cross-disciplinary approaches including robotic surgery and advanced healthcare delivery models.

Register today and mark your calendar for UCL’s flagship cancer event, with the full symposium programme to follow.

Why attend?

The UCL Cancer Symposium is free to attend and brings together UCL cancer researchers from a range of disciplines and career levels, offering a brilliant opportunity to network and engage with fellow cancer researchers from beyond your discipline and team. The symposium will contain talks by some of the top cancer researchers in the world, providing a chance to hear about novel methods and innovation in cancer research. The symposium is open to all and provides an opportunity to be inspired and reflect on how you might potentially collaborate with other researchers.

The UCL Cancer Domain Early Careers Network invites early career researchers (students, research assistants, postdocs, junior PIs and other self-defining ECRs) from all research disciplines at UCL to submit abstracts for poster presentations at the symposium.

Abstracts can be on any topic relating to cancer research; fundamental, translational, clinical, population research, as well as including engineering, imaging, computation, statistics, social sciences, and more.

This is an opportunity to share your research, inspire others, network with fellow researchers and reach a wide audience. Depending on the number of submissions, some abstracts may not be selected for presentation due to space limitations.

The best poster will win a cash prize. Posters should be aimed at a broad audience.

Help us showcase the excellent cancer research across UCL by registering using the 'Abstract/poster submission and in-person ticket' when registering.

You'll be asked to provide the following upon registation, so please have all the details ready.

Name and surname:

UCL department:

Role/Position:

Abstract title:

Abstract (300 words):

We are immensely grateful for the support of all our sponsors.

If you wish to sponsor this event and exhibit at the symposium or wish to request further information about sponsorship opportunities available, please contact Naomi Andrews: [email protected].

Addtional information:

Attendees

This meeting is open to those who have an interest in any aspect of Cancer and cancer research. Including UCL researchers (BSc/MSc students, PhD students, postdocs, research associates and Principal Investigators) working on any aspect of cancer within UCL. As well as members of UCL's partner organisations, NHS Trusts or other academic organisations. To confirm authenticity of your registration, please use your UCL or affiliated (e.g. NHS, university or professional) email address when registering (i.e. do not use gmail, hotmail etc.)

If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket via Eventbrite or by emailing [email protected].

Access

We want to make this event as inclusive as possible.

• There is a ramp/slope at the entrance of UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. The ramp/slope is located to the right as you face the entrance.

• There are nearby accessible toilets

• We can provide for a range of dietary requirements (vegetarian/vegan)

Please let us know when registering if you have any access or dietary requirements so we can try to make reasonable adjustments.

View the full Accessibility Guide for UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

The event will be livestreamed for those who are unable to attend in person. Please register as usual and the virtual joining instructions will be sent nearer the time.

Photography

There will be photographs taken during the symposium. In registering for this symposium you are agreeing that your image may be used in future UCL promotional material.

Privacy

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, United Kingdom