The UCL Cancer Symposium, organised by the UCL Cancer Domain, drew its highest attendance ever in 2025. The symposium took place at the UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health on the 1st May 2025. The symposium brought together over 250 researchers from all career stages and demonstrated UCL’s cross-Faculty strength in cancer research, with talks and posters showcasing the range of of cancer research at UCL including cancer risk and diagnosis, AI and robotics in cancer surgery, the promise of lung cancer vaccines, cutting-edge nerve cell biology, and more. The symposium presented an excellent opportunity for all attendees to learn, network and make new collaborations in cancer research at UCL.
Available talks
Danail Stoyanov, Professor of Robot Vision, UCL Department of Computer Science and Co-Director of the UCL Hawkes Institute
Translating Surgical AI Research into Medical Devices
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Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, UCL Department of Behavioural Science and Health
What has cancer epidemiology ever done for us? Discoveries from population studies on cancer diagnosis, treatment and outcomes, and the road ahead for accelerating cancer control
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Alison Lloyd, Professor of Cell Biology, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
Microenvironmental signals drive NF1 tumour formation indicating new strategies for treatment
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Faculty Picks Talks
Panel Discussion
Panel discussion: Barriers and opportunities foradvanced therapy bench to bedside research, innovation and delivery
Chair: Mark Emberton, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences and Professor of Interventional Oncology
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Faculty Picks Quick Talks
Mustafa Jaafar, IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
Chronic Sleep Disorders in Prostate Cancer Patients on ADT: pathways to sleep screening and treatments to optimise QoL
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Lusi Morhayim, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
Humanizing Hospitals: A co-produced survey tool to measure older cancer patients’ wellbeing in outpatient cancer clinics
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2025 Research Poster Prizes
First Prize Winner: Hongui Cha
Runner-up: Corinne Molyneux
Download the symposium brochures
2025 UCL Cancer Symposium Sponsors
We are extremely grateful to our sponsors:
- Antibodies.com
- Cambridge Bioscience
- 2B Scientific
- Stratech
- Miltenyi Biotec
- PromoCell
- UCL Translational Research Office
- UCL Business
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