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City’s Cancer Breakthrough

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The microbubble work has been highlighted on the front cover of the Yorkshire Evening Post: City’s Cancer Breakthrough. "Experts at the University of Leeds and the city’s two main hospitals believe the use of so-called ‘microbubbles’ has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of drugs that have to be given to cancer patients and...

Adam Churchman wins prestigious poster prize at MicroTAS 2016 conference, Dublin, Ireland

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We are delighted to announce that Adam Churchman, a 3rd year PhD student in the Molecular and Nanoscale Physics group has been awarded the Lab on a Chip Widmer Poster Prize at MicroTAS 2016 with his microbubble poster 'Forming oil layer inside microbubbles through single step microfluidics, towards hydrophobic drug delivery'. This is an international...

Annual Microbubble Symposium 2016

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The 6th Annual Microbubble Symposium will run from Monday 18th July to Tuesday 19th July at Weetwood Hall, Leeds and will include talks on Fabrication, Characterisation and Translational Applications from a variety of speakers, including: Professor John Callan, Ulster University Professor David Jayne, University of Leeds Dr Alexander Klibanov, University of Virginia Dr Ine Lentacker, University...

Outstanding achievement

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Congratulations to Victoria Mico, a PhD student in the Leeds Microbubble Consortium and Physics and Astronomy at University of Leeds, who has been selected to display a poster at the 2016 SET for Britain event in the Houses of Parliament. This is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates the high quality work that Victoria has produced. The event...

#WorldCancerDay

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Today is #WorldCancerDay and the Leeds Microbubble Consortium at the University... Today is #WorldCancerDay and the Leeds Microbubble Consortium at the University of Leeds, School of Physics and Astronomy, are acknowledging the support they have received from funders such as the EPSRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust and iThera Medical. Their ongoing support has helped the consortium...

#ShowUsYourScience

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Victoria Mico from the Leeds Microbubble Symposium has been noticed on Twitter by @NatureNews. Victoria's tweet, following Nature's initiative to use the hastag #ShowUsYourScience spurred Victoria on to tweet about the Microbubble outreach work that the group have been doing in Schools. The tweet itself has been seen by 20 564 people and brought new...

Poster of the Year

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Congratulations to Anastasia Alataki from the Leeds Microbubble Consortium who has won 'Research Postgraduate Poster of the Year' at University Postgraduate Conference 2015. Anastasia's poster is a study of the epigenetic therapy process about reprogramming cancer cells, which is a new therapy for breast cancer. Anastasia's poster pipped 300 other submitted posters in the competition.

New Microbubble Logo

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The Leeds Microbubble Consortium is pleased to present our new Microbubble logo. The logo has been designed by Ellie McBride, who is a freelance designer and artist, specialising in 2D and 3D animation. Ellie will be working with a small team of the consortium to create an animation centred around the work here in Leeds....

Speaker Profile: Antony Higginson

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Dr Antony Higginson is a Consultant Gastrointestinal Radiologist at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust based at the Queen Alexandra hospital. He has a major interest in all aspects of ultrasound of the GI tract including trans-abdominal and luminal ultrasound. He is currently involved in several research studies including the METRIC trial investigating the role of ultrasound...

Speaker Profile: Catharina de Lange Davies

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Catharina de Lange Davies is professor in biophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interest is transport of drugs and nanoparticles in tissue. She is studying transport mechanisms in tumour tissue and cells to identify the barriers for successful delivery of therapeutic agents, and how to overcome the barriers. Currently she...