Lab news
Merry Christmas from the Grose Lab!
We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :) Look out for exciting new updates in 2025 from us all!
Congratulations Poppy gaining a place on William Harvey Day!
Poppy was one of a few students from BCI given poster presentations for the QMUL Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry William Harvey Day conference! Well done also to fellow BCI TBY member Rachel Lambert (pictured middle, Ribero lab) who won best Cancer poster for the conference.
BACR New Developments in Breast Cancer sees Poppy head up North!
Poppy gained acceptance to the BACR Breast Cancer conference, presenting a great poster and flash talk on her work looking at CB2 in HER2+ breast cancer. Congratulations Poppy for being one of a handful of students who gained the BACR Travel Award, covering all conference attendance fees!
Congratulations Poppy and Andrea on a successful Kingston conference!
Poppy and Andrea represented the Grose Lab at this years Kingston University Signalling Molecules in Disease 2024. Poppy gave a great short-talk, whilst Andrea presented a poster which won the best poster prize for the conference!
Well done Poppy representing the Grose Lab at the Francis Crick!
Poppy successfully presented her poster at The Crick Cancer Symposium this month, congratulations!
BCI welcomes VOICE participants to the BCI labs!
VOICE (Vision on information, confidence and engagement) is the first and only patient advocate training scheme in the UK, with patients across the UK welcome to partake. The 5-day course provides a basic understanding of cancer biology and introduces cancer research to those who have a personal experience of cancer or are actively involved in trial management or study groups. Poppy helped out this year teaching some lovely VOICE participants how to do a PCR!
Congratulations Poppy and Cerian!
Poppy and Cerian represented the Grose Lab at this years BioMedEng24 conference, with a poster and a talk respectively! Well done to them both for getting accepted.
Congratulations Cerian on completing her final LIDo retreat
Cerian completed her final annual retreat with her PhD program, speaking to members of LIDo about her research so far as she heads into her final year!
Goodbye and good luck to Qiaoying
Qiaoying is leaving us to head back home to China in order to finish writing up her thesis. We look forward to celebrating with her when she hopefully returns to London for her graduation in Summer 2025!
Farewell and good luck to Trevor, Adrianna and Alize!
Our MSc and undergraduate students have now finished their time in the lab with us and we wish them all the best with their final submission deadlines.
Congratulations to the Grose Lab on a great postgraduate research day!
Qiaoying, Cerian, Poppy and Andrea all presented posters at this years BCI postgraduate research day, with a keynote talk from Dr Hannah Thompson! Thank you to BCI PhD Forum and the QMUL teaching office for organising.
Welcome to our new undergraduate student, Alize!
Alize will be joining the Grose Lab for her 6-week lab project as part of her final year of undergraduate studies at QMUL. Alize will be working on FGFR signalling and PDAC, carrying on Qiaoying’s work with the help of Cerian!
STARS came to BCI!
STARS or Science Training for Aspiring Research Students is a program for sixth-form students to engage with STARS facilitators at BCI. The scheme allows students to undertake lab work and learn what it’s like working in cancer research! Poppy and Andrea helped out as STARS facilitator this July, helping students learn the reality of lab work and tackle any stigma around pursing STEM research.
Welcome to our new MSc students, Trevor and Adrianna!
Trevor and Adrianna will be joining Poppy and Andrea to work on CB2 signalling and breast cancer for their MSc projects. We wish them all the best for the lab work and hope they enjoy being part of the Grose lab!
Congratulations to Poppy and Andrea on their 9-month progression
Poppy and Andrea have successfully submitted and defended their first progression reports! We look forward to see what great lab work they have planned next.
Well done to Poppy and Andrea presenting at the MRC away day!
Poppy and Andrea have completed their MRC DTP away day in Southampton, organised in part by Andrea as part of the MRC student commitee. Well done to both who presented a poster and 3-minute thesis respectively!
Well done Qiaoying, passing her final progression milestone
Qiaoying has passed through her final 30-month PhD progression report, meaning she is now in the last few months of lab work before writing her thesis! Good luck!
Welcome back and congratulations to Cerian on passing her 18-month
We say welcome back to Cerian who has completed her 3-month internship and well done as she started back with a viva! Cerian has passed her 18-month progression report with great feedback from her internal examiners.
Cerian presents at the Francis Crick!
Congratulations Cerian for giving a great invited talk about her work so far on ephrin signalling at the 3D modelling workshop, held at the Francis Crick Institute.
Qiaoying and Cerian present at GRC 2024 in Texas
The Grose Lab have gone international! Richard, Cerian and Qiaoying jetted off to Galveston, Texas last week for the GRC (and GRS) conference “Fibroblast Growth Factors in Development and Disease”. Richard gave a great talk introducing what our lab does, followed by Cerian and Qiaoying detailing their PhD work so far into RTK signalling in PDAC. Congratulations to Cerian who won the best talk at the GRS, a PhD symposium that took place the day before GRC!
Farewell Cerian (for the next 3 months)!
We say a temporary goodbye to Cerian as she starts her internship at Lifescience Dynamics in Competitive Intelligence Consulting! We wish her all the best for her time in industry and hope she gains some great experience (but hopefully misses us enough to come racing back in April!)
Congratulations Dr Reza Roozitalab!
Lovely to celebrate such a big achievement before Christmas and great to see both past and new Grose Lab members! Well done Dr Reza and we wish you all the best for the future.
Check out our new paper in our publications tab!
We are delighted to say that Ed and Kubra’s work on ADAMTS14 and ADAMTS2 in myofibroblasts has been published this month in the Journal of Pathology! If you head over to our publications tab you will be able to click straight through to the paper and give it a read!
Grose Lab sweeps the prizes!
Congratulations to Qiaoying and Cerian who won best poster and best oral presentation respectively! The Grose lab had a great day at the Kingston “Signalling molecules in Disease” symposium November 2023, hearing about all sorts of research from schistosomiasis (parasitic worm infection!) to our very own Prof Grose talking through Ed’s work on ADAMTS proteases and myofibroblast differentiation.
We look forward to returning next year hopefully!
Congratulations Reza on submitting your thesis!
Reza has completed his thesis, with his viva set for December 19th! We can’t wait to celebrate before Christmas!
Congratulations Cerian on her William Harvey Day 2023 prize!
Cerian was not only awarded the opportunity to present a poster at this years William Harvey Day, but she also won the “Cancer” category! William Harvey Day showcases researchers from every department of the Medicine and Dentistry QMUL faculty, with posters from PhD students and post-docs. Additionally, group leaders from QMUL and key-note speakers from outside QMUL were invited to talk about their work. We had the pleasure of hearing about TRACERx from Professor Charles Swanton, a very important research initiative looking at lung cancer.
A great day and even better that the Grose Lab were able to present their work!
Andrea helps to organise an MRC media training day!
Andrea, along with other students in her cohort, helped to organise a training day for the QMUL PhD MRC DTP/iCASE students. Guest speaker Prof. Catherine Green (pictured) gave a great talk about her role in developing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine !
Welcome Julie!
Julie is joining us for the next few months to complete her undergraduate dissertation project. She will be working with Qiaoying on SEMA7A/FGFR signalling and PDAC. We wish her all the best with her upcoming lab work!
Welcome to our new PhD students!
It’s officially the start of the new academic year and that means new faces in the Grose Lab! We welcome Poppy and Andrea who will be taking on Nick’s project probing further into cannabinoids and breast cancer!
Watch this space!!
Goodbye and good luck to Klaudia!
As the new academic year is starting soon we bid farewell to another summer student! Klaudia has produced some great data looking at FGFR and ephrin signalling PDAC for her final year dissertation. We wish her all the best as she starts her third undergraduate year.
Farewell to our visiting students!
Congratulations to Alba and Luisa for completing their MSc degree! We also say farewell to Gabby, who is heading back across the pond to complete her medical degree at UConn, and Adrianna who is starting a masters degree in Germany!
It’s been great having so many new faces in the lab and we wish you all the best for the future!
Welcome Klaudia!
Welcome to our new BSc student, Klaudia, who is joining us for 2 months to complete her dissertation project! She will be working with Cerian on FGF2 and ephrin signalling in PDAC. We can’t wait to see some exciting results soon!
Farewell to Dr Ed Carter!
Congratulations to Ed who is starting a fellowship at Bath University!
We are all very sad to see him leave us after 8 years but excited to see him as a new PI! Future collaborations are pending!
If you’re interested in cancer neuroscience, 3D in vitro models reconstructing nerve interactions or nerve/tumour cross-talk you can reach out to Ed at ec246@bath.ac.uk.
https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/edward-carter
Well done to Shayin and the team on another paper!
Head over to our publications tab to see our latest paper on ADAMTS3 and breast cancer invasion.
Congratulations Dr Shayin Gibson!
Congratulations to Shayin on passing her viva!
A huge achievement and lovely to celebrate with lots of people including past and new Grose Lab members!
Welcome new students!
This June, we welcome back Adrianna who was with us last summer for her BSc project. Adrianna is joining Qiaoying again to work on FGF signalling, alongside our two new MSc students, Luisa and Alba, who are joining Qiaoying to look at semaphorin signalling in PDAC! Additionally, we have Gabby joining us from USA to work over the summer on cannabinoids and breast cancer which Nick started!
Welcome to all our new (and some past!) students, we’re very happy to have you join the Grose Group !
“Best Research Supervisor” awarded to Prof. Grose!
Congratulations to Prof Grose on winning the “Best Research Supervisor” award for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the QMUL Research and Innovation Awards last week. Well deserved!
Congratulations Dr Nick Roth!
Congratulations to Nick on passing his viva with minor corrections!
A great achievement and lovely to celebrate with his other supervisor, Prof. Peter McCormick.
Congratulations Dr Elena Tomas-Bort!
Congratulations to Elena on passing her PhD viva with no corrections!
A fantastic achievement, and a great opportunity to get current and past lab members together to celebrate.
Congratulations Cerian!
Congratulations to Cerian who has successfully passed her 9-month upgrade!
Well done!
We say farewell to Andréa!
It’s been great having Andréa with us for the last few months but sadly her rotation with us has ended. We wish her all the best in her final MRC rotation, joining Professor Vicky Sanz-Moreno in the BCI Tumour Microenvironment department!
London Pancreas Workshop 2023
Congratulations to Cerian, Qiaoying and Ed for presenting their posters and flash talks at the London Pancreas Workshop last week! It was great to hear about their ongoing research into stellate-cancer cell interactions. Well done to Cerian on presenting at her first conference and to Ed who was awarded a prize for the best abstract!
You will be able to check out each abstract in Pancreatology (June edition)!
Check out Shayin and Reza’s review!
Released this April, the Grose Lab have put together a review on DCIS; Check it out in our publications tab.
Check out our publications!
The Grose Lab have been busy with two publications released this March by Shayin and Elena! Head over to our publications tab for a copy of the papers.
Congratulations to Professor Grose!
Well done to Prof. Grose on a fantastic (delayed) inaugural lecture! Thank you to everyone who attended the celebration of Richard’s achievements.
Susan Love Symposium
The Grose Lab were off to LA this week! Richard and Shayin attended the Susan Love Symposium, with Richard being invited to speak on the work being done on DCIS in our lab. Congratulations both!
Welcome to Andréa!
Andréa is joining us for her MRC PhD rotation, extending work Nick has done into Her2+ breast cancer and cannabinoids.
Goodbye and good luck to Kubra!
We are sad to say goodbye to our post-doc Kubra. After a year with us Kubra is sadly moving on, but we wish her all the best in her next endeavours!
Check out our newest publication in Oncogene!
Head to our publications tab for a copy of our newly published work on Neuregulin 1 in PDAC!
Congratulations Qiaoying!
Qiaoying has successfully defended her 18-month thesis.
Congratulations Qiaoying!
Welcome back to Cerian!
We are very pleased to announce that Cerian has chosen to complete her PhD with the Grose Lab! She will be with us until September 2025 working on nanoscale dissection of ephrin signalling in cellular invasion.
We can’t wait to see all the exciting data she produces!
Congratulations Elena on presenting at Pharmacology 2022 conference
Elena gave a fabulous presentation on her work into histamine signalling in pancreatic cancer.
Grose Lab scoops up prizes at PhD Day!
Well done to Shayin and Elena who have won prizes at the BCI PhD day, presenting their PhD projects on DCIS and pancreatic cancer! Shayin won best poster presentation and Elena won best talk!
CRUK City of London PhD Summer Symposium
Congratulations to Shayin who helped organise the 2022 CRUK CoL Symposium! It was a great day of talks and science, enabling PhD students from across the London CRUK centres (UCL, King’s, Barts and The Crick) to network and catch-up!
Goodbye and best of luck to Lucia!
It is with great sadness we say goodbye to our post-doc Lucia. After 4 years, she is moving on from the Grose lab to work in industry back in Spain! We all wish you the best Lucia and know you’ll do great things in big-pharma!
It’s time for MSc and BSc students to join us…
For summer 2022 we say welcome to Kien (BSc), Adrianna (BSc), Isobel (MSc) and Radhisha (MSc)! Kien will be working with Kubra on proteases in pancreatic cancer, whilst Adrianna is working with Qiaoying on FGFR signalling in PDAC. Shayin is mentoring Isobel for a DCIS project, and Radhisha is joining Reza for his research on macrophages and breast cancer! We can’t to see all their exciting data!
Mammary Gland Gordon Conference attended by Nick and Shayin
It’s another conference in Italy for the Grose lab! This time Shayin and Nick have been to present their work on myoepithelial cells in DCIS (Shayin) and CB2 in Her2+ breast cancer (Nick). Well done to both!
First international conference completed for Qiaoying!
Congratulations to Qiaoying who presented a talk at the FGF Gordon Research Symposium.
(Not a bad view for a work trip…!)
Great posters presented at BSCB BSDB conference
Our very own Nick, Elena and Ed presented at Warwick University as part of the BSCB BSDB conference!
Welcome to our newest member: Cerian
Cerian joins us for three months (March-June 2022) as part of her LIDo rotations. She will be carrying on from Rhianna’s work on ephrin-B2/eph-B2 signalling in PDAC!
We can’t wait to see some more great spheroid data!
We say farewell to Rhianna!
After an excellent three-month rotation with us, Rhianna is moving on to her second rotation at UCL with Dr Chris Tape! She has produced some great data, looking at ephrin signalling and PDAC invasion; we wish her all the best with joining the Tape Lab!
Congratulations Dr Demi Wiskerke!
We are very proud to announce that Demi successfully defended her thesis on circumventing resistance to EGFR therapy in glioblastoma. Congratulations Dr Wiskerke!
Congratulations Qiaoying!
Congratulations are in order for Qiaoying who has successfully passed her 9-month upgrade!
Welcome to our newest group member: Rhianna
Rhianna is joining us from the LIDo DTP, working on a three month rotation project with us until February 2022! Her project surrounds ephrin signalling and PDAC, looking at its effect on 3D invasion.
MSc lab students!
Over the past few months Amandine, Gelareh and Nicola have been busy carrying out their MSc projects with us. As their time with us slowly comes to an end, we wish them the best of luck in their presentations and exciting next steps!
Welcome to our newest member of the team - Qiaoying
Earlier in the year we welcomed our new PhD student Qiaoying to the lab. It has already been a busy few months and we look forward to providing lots of updates about her project where she is investigating the therapeutic potential of FGFR signalling in pancreatic cancer.
Back to the lab!
After spending months in lockdown and working from home, we are set to return to our happy place, the lab, on the 29th of June. We will be working in 4 hour shifts and will help each other where we can. This is the time for the dream team to come together and be as efficient as possible! We will see if we can make this ‘new normal’ work.. To be continued..
Welcome Dissertation Students
A big welcome to Alex Diamond, Casey Hindon, Judy Kishantha, Wan Sun, Zahra Azhar, Sasi Shanmugam Senga and Nanna Sivamanoharan who will all be joining the Grose Lab for their dissertation projects! Good luck with writing!
Current challenges in Cancer Metastasis
Prof Grose will be presenting at the International Virtual Cancer Research Symposium on the 29th of June. It will take place on Zoom and he will be talking live from his office at home. We will be there. P.S. Everyone can sit front row for this one!
Dream team in action!
A big congratulations to Shayin, Reza and Nick for coming first place in the BCI PhD research engagement event, which took place on the 22nd of June. Their presentation, which had to be suitable for a non-scientific audience, was titled Identifying biological markers predicting breast cancer progression. You can watch all of the presentations here. Well done!
Congratulations to PhD students!
Congratulations to Demi, Elena, Shayin, Reza and Nick for completing their 9- and 18- month PhD vivas!