SARCOMA BIOLOGY AND GENOMICS
PILLAY LABOROTORY
Latest News:
Christie won the Julia Hłond Research Prize!
Congratulations to Christie on receiving this award and becoming its very first recipient!
The prize will now become an annual award recognising outstanding PhD students who demonstrate not only excellence in research, but also the qualities that Julia embodied throughout her time at the Institute.
July 2026
Jianan won the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship!
Congratulations Jianan!
Christie won 1st Prize for Best Poster Presentation in CTOS 2023
Congratulations Christie!
Akanksha Passes her Viva!
A huge congratulations to our Post-Doc, Akanksha Farswan, who passed her viva on 14th February 2023. Congratulations Dr Farswan!
Tom Butters Wins 3rd Prize for Best Research at PathSoc Winter Meeting
Dr Tom Butters won the third place prize for best research, which he presented at the joint Pathology Society/Royal Society of Medicine Winter Meeting, on 14th February 2023. He presented a poster on 'C228T hTERT Mutation for the Risk Stratification of Solitary Fibrous Tumour'. Congratulations Tom!
Copy-Number Classifiers for Cancer
Classifying cancers according to underlying genomic features can aid the stratification of patients into subgroups for personalized clinical care. Two new papers in Nature report copy-number-based classification systems across cancer types that associate with patient outcome, inform mechanisms of cancer origin and provide routes for targeted therapy.