About this session
For as long as I can remember I’ve been a science geek, so my ambition after university was to spend my working life in a research laboratory. Everything was going according to plan, when in 1992 I came home to see my parents and my dad told me he had been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, or CLL. That conversation has shaped the rest of my career – at the time I was part of a team developing new therapies for breast cancer but within a year I was researching CLL - and the rest, as they say, is history!
In this talk, I’m going to take you on a whistle-stop tour of the world of CLL. Starting with what was known about the disease when my dad was diagnosed, I will tell you about the new insights that have been gained about this disease over the last 30 years and how that understanding has been used to develop some amazing new therapies that are transforming the lives of patients and their families.
This lecture is part of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School's Monthly Lecture Series, designed for secondary school and college students. This lecture series, running from October 2021 through to July 2022, provides a unique opportunity for students to learn more about different aspects of medicine, career pathways, and how to get into medicine.
This talk will be held in person at the University of Sussex Medical Teaching Building. If government or university policy changes in regard to Covid-19 we will contact you and inform you. You will be provided with details of our Covid-19 guidelines in your confirmation email.
If you have any questions about this event, or the Monthly Lecture Series, please email the Outreach Team via outreach@bsms.ac.uk.
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