Early Cancer Institute Seminar Series: Dr Calum Gabbutt

The seminar series from the Early Cancer Institute aims to connect researchers in the early cancer detection and diagnosis space to share knowledge and spark collaboration. Join fellow researchers for lunch and an opportunity to network.

On Tuesday 19th November we welcome Dr Calum Gabbutt from Imperial College London & the Institute of Cancer Research to give a talk: 'Leveraging inference of cancer evolution to improve patient stratification .'

This event will take place in the Early Cancer Institute, Adrian Way, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ

Lunch is provided from 12:30pm, the talk will begin at 1.00pm followed by a Q&A. Please ensure you arrive promptly.

Talk abstract:

Cancer formation and progression are driven by evolutionary pressures. Therefore, understanding a cancer’s evolutionary history may help determine its evolutionary trajectory and help personalise a patient’s risk of progression. In this seminar, I shall discuss two projects focused on developing novel methods to quantitatively measure a cancer’s evolutionary history in the context of lymphoid cancers and Barrett’s oesophagus.

Dr Gabbutt is a Chapman-Schmidt Fellow at Imperial College London, where he works on developing mathematical models to describe how cancers evolve and computational methods to fit these models to patient data. Dr Gabbutt completed a Physics degree at the University of Oxford and earned his PhD at Barts Cancer Institute, where he developed methods to quantify clonal evolution in healthy human tissues. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research, he extended the lineage tracing methods developed during his PhD to the study of cancer.

Host or Publisher Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre