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New study in JCI Insights

Our paper “Adipocyte-like signature in ovarian cancer minimal residual disease identifies metabolic vulnerabilities of tumor-initiating cells” with the Oxford Ovarian Cancer Cell Lab has been featured on the cover of JCI Insight. The work used methods developed by former group student Kieran Campbell.

May 4, 2021 1 min read Cancer
PhD Opportunities 2021/22

A new PhD projects is being advertised to join my group at the University of Manchester for the academic year 2021/22. Applications are due by 21 May 2021 for the EPSRC Doctoral Training Programme. Successful applicants will receive funding support for their PhD studies.
Apr 23, 2021 1 min read Student, Phd
HDRUK PhD Director

Health Data Research UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Christopher Yau as Director of its HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science, starting 1 April 2021. (https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/christopher-yau-appointed-director-of-health-data-research-uk-turing-wellcome-phd-programme/).

Apr 1, 2021 1 min read Health Data, Phd
New Nature Reviews Methods Primer

Christopher Yau and Kaspar Martens have contributed to an article Bayesian statistics and modelling for the new Nature Reviews Methods Primer journal.
Jan 14, 2021 1 min read Artificial Intelligence, Statistics
New study in Clinical Cancer Research

With collaborators in the Oxford Ovarian Cancer Lab and Imperial College London, Zhiyuan Hu has identified that OxC-defined EMT-high SOCs carry particularly poor prognosis independent of established clinical parameters. She found these tumours are associated with high frequency of immunosuppressive macrophages, suggesting a potential therapeutic target to improve clinical outcome.
Jan 14, 2021 1 min read Genomics, Cancer
New study in American Journal of Drug Alcohol Abuse

Increasing rates of opioid-related overdose have been identified globally. Treatment for opioid use disorders (OUD) includes medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) alongside behavioral support. In this study we use statistical analysis and machine learning to show that the Breaking Free Online program may reduce opioid use and improve biopsychosocial functioning in individuals with OUD.
Jan 11, 2021 1 min read Mental Health, Machine Learning
Times Radio

Christopher Yau appeared on the Hugo Rifkind on Times.Radio with Dame Janet Thornton and Tech Journalist Tom Chivers to discuss artificial intelligence and the recent AlphaFold2 development by Google Deepmind.
Dec 5, 2020 1 min read Artificial Intelligence
Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship

Christopher Yau has been awarded a 5-year Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship.

The Turing AI Acceleration Fellowships are part of the government’s AI sector deal investment in Turing AI fellowships, recommended by the independent 2017 UK AI Review, whose report ‘Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK,’ was co-authored by Reguis Professor of Computer Science at Southampton, Dame Wendy Hall, and Jérôme Pesenti, now Vice President of AI at Facebook.
Nov 27, 2020 1 min read Machine Learning, Digital Health, Cancer
PhD Opportunities 2021/22

Two new PhD projects are being advertised to join my group at the University of Manchester for the academic year 2021/22. Applications are due by 15 November 2020 for the MRC Doctoral Training Programme. Successful applicants will receive funding support for their PhD studies.
Nov 8, 2020 1 min read Student, Phd
Scientists closer to finding the cell of origin for ovarian cancer

Former DPhil student Zhiyuan with the Ovarian Cancer Lab have created a new public engagement video showcasing our work on single cell sequencing of ovarian cancer.
Sep 28, 2020 1 min read Cancer, Omics