Congratulations to our Award Winning Presentations for 2024

Best Oral presentation:

Spatial Transcriptomics Delineates Tumour Heterogeneity in NACT Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Isobelle Wall¹, Jelmar Quist¹, Sarah Pinder¹, Shiba Irshad¹, Cheryl Gillet¹, Victoria Seewaldt², Shankar Subramaniam³, Maddy Parsons¹, Anita Grigoriadis¹

¹King's College London, London, UK, ²City of Hope, Duarte, United States, ³University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Best Poster 

Gut microbiota predict efficacy of neoadjuvant systemic therapy in patients with early breast cancer

Kirsty Ross^1,2,4, Ben Nichols², Rodanthi Papadopoulou², Martin Macleod¹, Judith Fraser¹, Sophie Barrett¹, Katy Teo³, Elizabeth Mallon³, Aula Ammar⁴, Joanne Edwards⁴, Jeff Evans^1,4, Konstantinos Gerasimidis², Iain R Macpherson^1,4

¹Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ²School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ³ Pathology Department, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ⁴School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Poster Runner ups:

CDK4/6 inhibitors compared to weekly paclitaxel for treatment of ER+/HER2- advanced breast cancer with impending or established visceral crisis: a retrospective study

Roya Behrouzi¹, Anne Armstrong¹, Sacha Howell^1,2

¹The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK, ²Division of Cancer Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Targeting zinc transporters provides a potent treatment for triple negative and tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer preclinical mouse models

Adam Higgins¹, Gillian Seaton¹, Richard Clarkson¹, Kathryn Taylor²

¹European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, ²School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Patient Advocate Poster award:

Gut microbiota predict efficacy of neoadjuvant systemic therapy in patients with early breast cancer

Kirsty Ross^1,2,4, Ben Nichols², Rodanthi Papadopoulou², Martin Macleod¹, Judith Fraser¹, Sophie Barrett¹, Katy Teo³, Elizabeth Mallon³, Aula Ammar⁴, Joanne Edwards⁴, Jeff Evans^1,4, Konstantinos Gerasimidis², Iain R Macpherson^1,4

¹Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ²School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ³ Pathology Department, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ⁴School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK