Centre for Immuno-Oncology

Today at the OCION Symposium: Jie Yang @oxcio.bsky.social presents: "Aspirin enhances T cell immunity to cancer metastasis” & Om H. Gandhi, also @oxcio.bsky.social, covers: “Peptide and enzyme-level dissection of a TAP–cytosolic aminopeptidase axis of tumour immune escape”

We had a great time at the first CIO Fun Run last month! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏾‍♂️‍➡️ Whether you did the 5K or 10K Run or the 5K walk, everybody did a great job resisting the heat! 🌡️ (Thanks Emery, Bas & Sashini with yummy refreshments afterwards) We are happy to announce that we raised £1,428 for @cruk-mi.bsky.social

This Friday, we are carrying out the first CIO Fun Run™️, a non-competitive 5-10K for everyone in our department, with a social drinks and snacks get-together afterwards. We are raising money for #CancerResearchUK @cruk-mi.bsky.social 🏃‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♂️ Donate here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cio-run...

This Friday, we are carrying out the first CIO Fun Run™️, a non-competitive 5-10K for everyone in our department, with a social drinks and snacks get-together afterwards. We are raising money for #CancerResearchUK @cruk-mi.bsky.social 🏃‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♂️ Donate here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cio-run...

Calling all members of the Oxford Cancer Network! The next @oxcio.bsky.social seminar will take place on Monday, January 12th, at 2 pm. Dr Amit Sud will present 'Spatial colocalisation of neoantigen-expressing tumour cells and cognate T-cells in cancer'.

This project has been a fantastic collaboration between members of the @oxcio.bsky.social and @oncology.ox.ac.uk (Oxford), AstraZeneca and others, and a huge dose of perseverance and resilience from @mtjackson101.bsky.social ! Huge thanks also to our funders. 10/10

Parkes lab pre-print alert! ‘TMEM33 deletion potentiates anti-tumor CD8⁺ T cell immunity.’ Led by mtjackson101.bsky.social. Full bluetutorial follows! 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our #CIO DPhil student Lisha Jeena is about to give her pre-viva talk on the effects of HIV-associated inflammation on musculoskeletal health🦴. Come support Lisha in the NDMRB seminar room! Best of luck, Lisha 🍀 you’ve got this! 💪🎓

🎓 Best of luck to Max Quastel, who’s defending his DPhil thesis today! He’ll be giving a pre-viva talk open to everyone, come along and cheer him on. Break a leg, Max! ✨ #CIODphil

Our #CIO DPhil student Lisha Jeena is about to give her pre-viva talk on the effects of HIV-associated inflammation on musculoskeletal health🦴. Come support Lisha in the NDMRB seminar room! Best of luck, Lisha 🍀 you’ve got this! 💪🎓

There was something different about patients receiving treatment for cancer in the pandemic. Less treatment was given, so it may have been restricted the fittest/ those who would most benefit. This may explain the Covid vaccine enhancement of ICB recently reported. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great to see that @oxcio.bsky.social Max is thinking big before his DPhil viva this morning! #croissantasaurusrex

🎓 Best of luck to Max Quastel, who’s defending his DPhil thesis today! He’ll be giving a pre-viva talk open to everyone, come along and cheer him on. Break a leg, Max! ✨ #CIODphil

We’re happy to be in Liverpool for this years @britsocimm.bsky.social congress: In today’s “What’s hot in cancer immunology?” session, Prof David Withers presented our new data on an orthotopic colorectal cancer model for the first time! 🐭💪

CIO is at @britsocimm.bsky.social BSI congress in Liverpool. Look out for presentations, posters and session chairs from CIO members @witherslab.bsky.social @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @timmunologist.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social

The Sim lab is at BSI Congress with two posters @britsocimm.bsky.social Come see what we’ve been up to! Numbers 400 and 403.

Tomorrow we welcome Jonathon Worboys from the University of Manchester to our CIO seminar series. Jon is a Wellcome research fellow and will give a talk titled ‘The nanoscale governance of TIGIT signalling and blockade’

Today, our PostDoc @lisav17.bsky.social has presented her progress on alternative experimental approaches to our current Kaede system in the @oxcio.bsky.social weekly seminar! 🧬🔦

UK NK 2026 in Cardiff. January 9th. Be there. eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-nk-confer… Hosted by Rich Stanton, Ceri Fielding & Eddie Wang

🤩CIO Cake Alert!! Anjum made this amazing lemon blueberry sponge cake for Felipe’s @galvez-cancino.bsky.social birthday from a TikTok recipe 🍰💙 But she promised to add it to our recipe collection making it truly generational-friendly!We’re so excited that homebaked cakes are back to CIO again 🎉

In this weeks @oxcio.bsky.social seminar, our PostDoc Pascale presented her current progress on setting up #SingleCellSequencing experiments and their analysis for the @witherslab.bsky.social in Oxford! 🖥️💡🐭 Exciting!!!

A big part of the CIO team will be at the @britsocimm.bsky.social Conference in Liverpool! You might spot our DPhil student (soon-to-be Dr) Max, featured in this year’s poster.

Scientists at NDM's @oxcio.bsky.social and the @dunnschool.bsky.social are joining together to develop an #mRNAVaccine for children with a rare type of #cancer. Using funding from Alice's Arc, their aim is to improve #rhabdomyosarcoma treatment 💉 Learn more 👉 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/ndm-sci...

Today we welcome Associate Prof. Amir Horowitz from the Tish Cancer Institute at Mt Sinai to the CIO Seminar Series. Amir will present work from his group with the title 'Targeting HLA-E and NKG2A in solid tumors to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapies'

Hugo, a DPhil student in our department, created a brain teaser about #immunopeptidomics. Can you help us solve it? #AntigenPresentation #Immunology #OxfordOpenDoors

Come visit our Centre for Immuno-Oncology activities at the Old Road Campus Research Building for @ox.ac.uk Open Doors! Learn about the amazing science we do in our department through fun games. Kids will understand antigens and there’s a complicated enigma for the grown ups 🔍👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 #OxfordUOpenDoors

Today we kicked off the @oxcio.bsky.social weekly seminar presenting our most recent achievements🔬 Our PostDoc @nabinapun.bsky.social gave insight into her research on myeloid cells in the TME our RA @ioannisguida.bsky.social presented a conclusion of his work in the #WithersLab before he leaves us!

The early bird deadline for ‪@thebacr.bsky.social‬ Cancer Immunology conference has been extended to the 18th of August! Talks will include discussions on: • Antibody Immunotherapy • Technological Advances in Cancer Immunology • Cellular Therapies Sign up here ⬇️ www.bacr.org.uk/event/cancer...

Yesterday we finished with prize-giving and drinks in the garden🥂🌱! 🏆 Posters for Bas, Cindy & Charlotte📃; postdoc talk for Qian 👩‍🏫 & best embossing artwork for Group8 🧑‍🎨 Shoutout to Lisha for the Rhodes House tours, acknowledging its history, the good and the uncomfortable ⚖️. What a day! #CIOawayday

After some cake 🎂 (of course!) to celebrate Tim’s and Nacho’s birthdays 🥳, we wrapped up with fantastic postdoc talks. Big thanks to Bruno, Maria, Lisa and Qian for rounding off a #CIOawayday packed with inspiring science and great company! 😊

🧪 We continued with an engaging afternoon poster session featuring more of our talented PhD students 🐣 Fantastic science, thoughtful questions, and great discussions all around. The future is bright! #CIOawayday

🎨 After lunch we had some team-building fun with a sciency embossing workshop 🧑‍🎨 so many creative scientists in the room! Huge thanks to Asma for teaching us a new skill!! #CIOawayday #embossing

🐣 We followed with our Junior PIs telling us about their questions for the next 5 years 💡 Lots of exciting, cutting-edge new ideas that will hopefully materialise soon and bring even more new questions to #CIO 🤓 🥳 #CIOawayday @galvez-cancino.bsky.social @mjwsim.bsky.social

🌟 Fantastic morning poster session from our DPhil students 📚🧫 so much talent and fresh thinking on display! More to come this afternoon. #CIOawayday

✨ Kicking off #CIOawayday with our senior PIs sharing the experiments that changed their careers 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧫 A reminder that serendipity, curiosity, and pub chats can spark groundbreaking ideas 🤓 Clearly science thrives on kindness and collaboration and we got a lot of that in #CIO 😉🙃 #ScienceLife

Happy birthday Manu @manusmolkin.bsky.social and Max 🥳🎂 #CIObirthdays

A big part of the CIO team will be at #BSI2025 🤓 especially now that our very own Max from the @ggillesp.bsky.social lab is featured on the conference poster! Looking forward to an exciting few days in Liverpool 🔬✨ #Immunology #CIOonTour

Feeling proud and looking sharp! Repping the Centre for Immuno-Oncology in style 😎 🔥Our top models, @anthonyhsieh.bsky.social and @mjwsim.bsky.social, rocking the CIO polos, in black and navy, which seems to be the unofficial Friday uniform around here! Team spirit (and outfits) on point 💛🖤💙

🎉 Huge congrats to our DPhil #CIOstudent Dr.Hong Sun (McMichael/Gillespie labs) on passing her viva today! Big thanks to examiners Prof Moss & Prof Rowland-Jones and supervisors Hongbing, @ggillesp.bsky.social & Andrew. What a journey 👩‍🎓wishing you all the best in your next adventure! 🌟

Lucy, FHS student at @mjwsim.bsky.social’s lab, has outdone herself! Not only is this the prettiest cake we’ve seen 😍, but it’s also seriously delicious 🤤🍰 #LabLife #BakingScience

🎙️ CIO Alert! Hot from the lab! 🔥 Dr. Lia Skolariki, a DPhil student in @eileenparkes.bsky.social group, shares the latest updates on her research in oesophageal cancer. Don't miss it! 🗓️ Today 🕐 13:00 📍 NDMRB Seminar Room 🔬🧬 #CIOSeminar #CancerResearch www.immonc.ox.ac.uk/team/aglaia-...

A huge thanks to everyone who attended our OCION Symposium last week! Congratulations to our poster prize winner, Matthew Jackson, and runner up, Paul Tarlatt, from @oxcio.bsky.social!! Read all about the day on our website ⬇️ www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/action-...

Huge congratulations to our very own @drlennardlee.bsky.social for winning the UK Oncology Forum award for his work on #CancerVaccines! 🏆🎉 We’re proud to have you as part of #CIO!

The 2025 Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network Funding Scheme is now officially open! Applications for up to £20,000 to pump-prime innovative, high-risk and proof-of-concept Oxford-based immuno-oncology research are welcomed. Full details on our website 👇 www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/OCION_P...

Busy preparing slides today for Foundations of Immunology for @britsocimm.bsky.social - if you have ever had burning questions about immunology-this course is accessible to all and designed to give a bit of a basic in immunology! I think there may be some spaces left so do sign up!

We got #CIO stash this week 😍 The Immunopeptidomics girls were showing it off today at #OCION making everyone else quite jealous 🥲 We definitely LOVE our logo 🫶🏼 #ProudCIO Big thanks to DPhil student Charlotte from @witherslab.bsky.social for organising 💙

Huge thanks to our keynote speaker, Alfred Zippelius, who presents 'Rewiring immune responses for advancing cancer immunotherapy' to conclude today's OCION Symposium.

Professor @timmunologist.bsky.social launched the Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network (OCION) at the inaugural OCION Symposium in June 2023. With the third annual symposium due to take place this Friday, we look back at some of OCION’s key achievements. 👇 www.cancer.ox.ac.uk/news/celebra...