The Rudy A Menon PhD Studentship

The following is written by Rita Pereira, the second Rudy A Menon Foundation funded PhD student working at the ICR.  It was lovely seeing you at the 5th International GC conference. I would like to thank you for all the effort you put into organising it – it was a fantastic three days, full of very interesting presentations and meaningful conservations. Even though I was extremely nervous, it was a great opportunity to be able to present my progress so far and have feedback o

In October 2025, we had the privilege of celebrating the achievement of Shauna Crampsie as she was awarded her PhD at the iconic Guild Hall in the City of London. She is the first PhD student of the Rudy A Menon PhD Studentship program and her thesis on Gliomatosis Cerebri, a rare and inoperable brain cancer, is not only ground-breaking, but vital for advancing understanding of this rare condition. This incredible first could not have been possible without her supervisor Prof

The following is written by Rita Pereira, the second Rudy A Menon Foundation funded PhD student working at the ICR. In my last report, I mentioned that one of my big achievements was the fact that I was able to establish several EGFR-altered patient-derived cell lines and one subsequent in vivo model in which these cells form tumours in mice. I have now been able to build on that and have been able to gather eight EGFR-altered patient-derived cell lines, of which five generat

The following is written by Rita Pereira, the second Rudy A Menon Foundation funded PhD student working at the ICR. Over the last...

The following is an update from Professor Chris Jones at the ICR. The last few months have seen our lab now having two Rudy A Menon...

Shauna is now back from Rome and has returned to the lab in the UK for the final stretch of her PhD. She has only a year left of her...

Shauna Crampsie is now in the third year of her PhD project with the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and has spent the past few months...

The following is an update from The ICR on The Rudy A Menon PhD Studentship: It has been a very exciting time for the lab and Shauna over...

Shauna Crampsie is now at the halfway point of her PhD project here at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). Despite the challenges of...

Shauna Crampsie is undertaking her gliomatosis cerebri (GC) PhD project here at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) under the expert...