Lab news
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!
Reza has completed his thesis, with his viva set of 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!
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 Shanshan, Poppy and Andrea! Shanshan will be working on fibroblasts and breast cancer carrying on from Shayin and Reza, whilst Andrea and Poppy 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!