Molecular imaging at @CRUK_SI. Using PET/MRI, metabolomics and genomics to understand metabolic heterogeneity in lung cancer and improve cancer treatment.
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12 Sep 2023
🎉 Great to get this out. Fantastic effort from all our co-authors. Our latest research developing the sodium iodide symporter as an in vivo metabolic sensor for PET imaging. Check it out 👇
12 Sep 2023
🆕Paper by Piotr Dzien, @kblyth1, @DavidYLewis and colleagues proposes PET imaging of the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) as an in vivo testing method for metabolic treatments targeting energetic pathways to rapidly determine metabolic drug potency
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26 Sep 2025
🧡💙 It’s #CancerCachexia Awareness Day 💙🧡
Yesterday at @CRUK_SI, the CANCAN team—led by Emma Brown & Lisa Duff—hosted an inspiring event to spotlight this devastating syndrome.
Thanks to Dr. Tobias Janowitz for his powerful talk.
@UofGlasgow
@CancerGrand
#YesWeCANCAN
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18 Sep 2025
🚨 We’re hiring a PET Preclinical Imaging Scientist at @UofGlasgow!
Lead cutting-edge PET imaging, collaborate with CRUK-SI & NHS GGC, and shape translational research.
💼 £50,253–£58,225
📅 Apply by 16 Oct
👉 jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/senior-pr…
#PETImaging #Jobs
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David Lewis retweeted
15 Sep 2025
📢Are you a talented #ECR looking to start your independent lab in state-of-the-art cancer research facilities?
Join the CRUK Scotland Institute & @UofGCancerSci as a Junior Group Leader!
👉Find out more and apply here: crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/…
📅Closing date: 10 October 2025
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26 Jun 2025
Fantastic work bringing all this together @NikiSushentsev
24 Jun 2025
Another multidisciplinary effort of physicists, nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, pathologists, and the excellent @AstraZeneca team! @FerdiaGallagher @Tristan_Radiol @DavidYLewis @radiology_UOC Full text here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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29 May 2025
Our Lisa Duff speaking about her work using clinical FDG PET/CT to diagnose, predict and characterise metabolic changes in #cancercachexia at the wonderful #BICC. Her work is funded through @CancerGrand Challenges.
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David Lewis retweeted
20 May 2025
Sharing our fluxomics work on cancer cachexia. A close collaboration with @DavidYLewis @JanowitzTobias @MarcusDGon @EileenWhitePhD
#CANCAN @CancerGrand @HarvardChanSPH
Sustained Glucose Turnover Flux Distinguishes Cancer Cachexia from Nutrient Limitation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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20 May 2025
Metabolic alterations in cancer cachexia from Team CANCAN @CancerGrand from the Hui lab @MarcusDGon @EileenWhitePhD @JanowitzTobias et al.
Sustained Glucose Turnover Flux Distinguishes Cancer Cachexia from Nutrient Limitation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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4 Apr 2025
Great work Tony Hui!
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1 Apr 2025
More from the first minister’s visit yesterday… check out my cameo.
1 Apr 2025
“The outcomes that have been achieved as a consequence of these research programmes are phenomenal”.
First Minister @JohnSwinney visited @CRUK_SI as it was announced Scottish scientists will co-lead a new global project to improve the treatment of bowel cancer.
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31 Mar 2025
Honoured to give the First Minister @JohnSwinney a tour of our @CRUK_SI imaging labs today and discuss the importance of the Scotland Total Body PET Facility to Scottish patients. @UofGlasgow @uniofedinburgh @NPIP_Org
31 Mar 2025
First Minister @JohnSwinney visited @CRUK_SI where he met volunteers and heard from university and charity leaders about the future of cancer research.
His visit came as it was announced Scottish scientists will co-lead a global project to improve the treatment of bowel cancer.
ALT First Minister John Swinney visits the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
ALT First Minister John Swinney meets researchers at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
ALT First Minister John Swinney visits the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
ALT First Minister John Swinney with campaign ambassadors the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
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David Lewis retweeted
7 Mar 2025
Great Team CANCAN presentation @CancerGrand @CRUKresearch @theNCI at the Cancer Grand Challenge summit!
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David Lewis retweeted
8 Dec 2024
Strong #CANCAN representation in the basic science summary #SCWD2024 #SCWDconference2024 thank you for the support @SCWDnews and @ErinETalbert @DavidYLewis @HenningLanger
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8 Dec 2024
It was a fantastic meeting with thanks for the invitation.
Our session E at the 17th SCWD conference delved in to understanding dysregulated metabolic homeostasis in Cancer Cachexia. Important insights were shared by international experts with a full room of attendees.
#SCWDConference2024 #MedicalResearch
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21 Nov 2024
The CANcer Cachexia Action Network (CANCAN) 2024!
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13 Nov 2024
Delighted to see our CRUK RadNet Centre refunded for another 5 years @RadNetCRUKGla!
🆕 UofG scientists in the CRUK Glasgow RadNet team have been awarded £1.5m over five years from @CR_UK to pioneer new radiotherapy technologies and research which could help more people survive cancer with fewer side effects.
More ➡️ gla.ac/3CkHka0
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6 Nov 2024
Only a couple of days left to apply for this permanent post within our imaging facility 👇
4 Nov 2024
The Translational Molecular Imaging Facility is looking for a Senior Scientific Officer to support advanced in vivo imaging in cancer research
📅Closing date: Friday 8 November
🔗crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/…
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1 Nov 2024
🚀 We’re hiring! Senior Scientific Officer in PET/MRI cancer research at CRUK Scotland Institute, led by Dr. David Lewis.
Apply by 8 Nov 2024
Contact: David.Lewis@glasgow.ac.uk
#CancerResearch #Hiring #PETImaging
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17 Sep 2024
Our Emma flying the flag at WMIC
15 Sep 2024
It's been an amazing week #WMIC2024 with the opportunity to speak about my work in imaging #cachexia, to hang out with great friends and work to empower women and early career researchers in our field @uraniumsodium @WIMIN_WMIS
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30 Aug 2024
Detection of cancer-associated cachexia in lung cancer patients using whole-body [18F]FDG-PET/CT imaging: A multi-centre study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3918…
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15 Jul 2024
Once again delighted to be representing Scotland in the Men’s 40s team, this time at the touch rugby World Cup in Nottingham 🏴🏆. Wish us luck! 🍀
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