Jointly led by Heiko Wurdak & Ryan Mathew @LeedsNeuro at @UniversityLeeds | Glioma (brain cancer) research and modelling 🧠

Joined October 2020
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
Leeds smashing @BNOSofficial #BNOS2024 with multiple oral & poster presentations from our @LTHTNEURO brain tumour AHPs. Very proud to be part of this highly impactful & talented MDT. Always amazing clinically, now leading the research therapy field 👏🏽
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⭐ Exciting News ⭐ We are pleased to share that we are the first hospital in the UK to use the ZEISS Medical Technology Convivo Pathology suite to effectively diagnose and operate on brain tumours thanks to @LDShospcharity Read the full story ➡ shorturl.at/lZJ2F
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
Apply now! This is an excellent opportunity to get curated, expert review of your brain tumour therapeutic drug or device. No one is too early (or indeed too late) in their development journey to apply. If you’re thinking about it, do it!
Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity to have your therapy for brain tumours reviewed by an international, multidisciplinary committee! Pre-applications for the BTR-NTA programme close on Friday 26th July. Click here to apply ➡️ tessajowellbraincancermissio…
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
Clinical trustee @LeedsNeuro recently launched our Research Call at the British Paediatric Neuro-oncology Group conference in Leeds Head to oscarspbtc.org/research to learn more as we look for innovative project ideas that help children at any point along the paediatric pathway
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
We are calling for a National Brain Tumour Strategy alongside @BrainTumourOrg Our charity manager Phil held up photos of his mum and Oscar, who both died of brain tumours Sign at bit.ly/ItsANoBrainerOpenLett… to back this important campaign #ItsANoBrainer
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Huge thank you to our funders and investors including: @LDShospcharity @NIHRBrainMIC @surgicalMIC @NIHRresearch @SyncVRMedical A brilliant combination of support from academic scientific rigour and entrepreneurial efficiency.
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Thank you to my lead supervisor @LeedsNeuro and the neuro rehabilitation team at @LTHTNEURO for your multidisciplinary expertise and drive 🙏
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Presenting our work from @LeedsHospitals / @LeedsMedHealth to build and evidence spatial computing technologies (AI VR/MR/AR) that help people overcome neuro-disability following injury or surgery to the brain and spine 🧠 Helping people recover reality 🔥 #MedTwitter #AI #VR
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Honoured to present at #SNO2023 one of the projects from my neurosurgical academic foundation programme on the @LeedsHospitals 10-year experience of Gamma Knife for patients with cerebral metastases. An exciting programme and beautiful location by @NeuroOnc @LeedsNeuro
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Honoured to present our work at #SNO2023 in beautiful Vancouver. It's been a fantastic morning with brilliant science. Looking forward to learning more and networking over the next few days. @SCBT_Research @CritchleyGroup @LeedsNeuro @LDShospcharity @NeuroOnc
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During Brain Tumour Awareness Week, we want to acknowledge your donations that helped fund brain cancer research at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2021, we granted £200,000 to Christopher Fudge's research on glioma cells and tumour recurrence after surgery.
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Advances in brain cancer research are happening due to organisations such as @LDShospcharity who have been instrumental in supporting my work. Huge thanks to them, my other funders (@RCSnews) and my research team @SCBT_Research @LeedsNeuro @CritchleyGroup. Paper to follow soon!
During Brain Tumour Awareness Week, we want to acknowledge your donations that helped fund brain cancer research at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2021, we granted £200,000 to Christopher Fudge's research on glioma cells and tumour recurrence after surgery.
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
This is an important partnership. Bringing together teams with different skills. Already generating collaborations - new local delivery technologies & with @FoundationTessa Novel Therapeutics Accelerator. Working together is key.
The IRC is delighted to announce our new partnership with Ryan Mathew and Heiko Wurdak of the University of Leeds, on the translation of local therapeutic drug delivery technologies to treat brain cancer @leedsneuro teddy.eng.cam.ac.uk/news
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Watch our new video where Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon and star of BBC Two's Saving Lives in Leeds @LeedsNeuro talks about how he and his colleagues are using immersive technologies, like #VR, to enhance patient engagement and rehabilitation. bit.ly/3NO8Pfw
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Stem Cell and Brain Tumours Research Group retweeted
I’ve got this excited feeling after @TessaJ_Academy Summit today… ‘When the prognosis is so dismal, the appetite for risk is higher’ Let’s disrupt. With a clear plan to deliver. #Care #Research #Treatment Thank you @willquince @wesstreeting @jamesosh
Inspiring discussion at the TJBCM 5year Anniversary Summit planning new national priorities to tackle brain tumours with cross-party consensus on the importance of achieving these goals #backthebraincancermission #excellenceinbraincancerresearchandcare @TessaJ_Academy @LeedsNeuro
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Delighted to be invited to speak. Please come along and ask me hard questions about our research - makes us think differently, check our direction of travel and gives us (even more) motivation to do better. All good things!
We're delighted to announce that @LeedsNeuro has agreed to speak at our event on the 23rd June. Sign up now 🤩thrive-leeds.eventbrite.co.u… #thrivewithbrainstrust @brainstrust
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Don't forget that the Leeds neuropathology tissue bank is open to all researchers!
Tissue Bank Update! Some of the good work we've been supporting with the generous help of @YorkshireBTC and @OscarsCharity can be read about here braincancer.leeds.ac.uk/wp-c…
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Brilliant work Chris representing @SCBT_Research !
Excited to have presented our work on #Glioblastoma at the #Organoids #LabOnAChip 2023 Meeting, held by @PhysicsNews. Was a great experience speaking to the #physics community - collaborative #MDT #science is the future! @SCBT_Research @LeedsNeuro @CritchleyGroup @LDShospcharity
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So good and promising for brain tumour patients to see our future neurosurgeons doing such fantastic, high quality translational lab science @SCBT_Research @LIMRLeeds @LeedsMedHealth @LeedsHospitals Well done @CA_Fudge Keep it up!
Huge thanks to @LDShospcharity for supporting my #brain #cancer research at @UniversityLeeds with @SCBT_Research and @LeedsNeuro. Aiming to publish our exciting results this year! Watch this space! @CritchleyGroup @LeedsHospitals @LeedsNews #Glioblastoma yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/h…
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SCBT had a glorious evening celebrating the festivities together last week. Another fantastic year finished! 🎄🎉
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