Our latest WCX Quarterly Newsletter is out!

This issue is all about community + science:
– new cachexia research
– celebrating trainees & early-career wins
– upcoming journal club
– Save the date: featured talk with Dr. Grandis

WCX, building a space where science and support go hand in hand 💙

Black-and-white historical photograph of Marie Skłodowska-Curie in a laboratory, holding a glass flask and observing an experiment. Overlaid text reads: “30 years of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)”, with the European Commission logo in the bottom left corner.

Europe’s future is built on knowledge.

For 30 years, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has supported over 150,000 researchers, including 23 Nobel Prize winners.

This programme is built on curiosity, openness and excellence.

Happy birthday MSCA!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: WCX Stories and Science: Dr. Sarah Kolitz. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Stories and Science: Dr. Sarah Kolitz, PhD January 20th, 2026 12pm EST Women in Cachexia (WCX) welcomes you to another Stories and Science seminar! Dr. Kolitz will discuss her current career in the ...

Want to be inspired by and interact with great scientists? There’s still time to register for @cancercachexia.bsky.social WCX initiative Stories and Science with Dr. Sarah Kolitz.
Tomorrow, Jan 20th at 12EST.

See you there!

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Ready for some Stories and Science?
Join us on January 20th!

Register for the Stories & Science here:
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✨ WCX Quarterly Newsletter is out! ✨ @cancercachexia.bsky.social
New leadership, community announcements, and fresh science — plus Stories & Science in January with Dr. Kolitz.
🔗 Newsletter, links to publications & register for the Stories and Science:
www.cancercachexiasociety.org/assets/2025/...

Was great to be at #FLC25 and present on how the tumour microenvironment can dictate pancreatic cancer cachexia!
Also amazing to see such diverse work and catch up with my lovely peers from #TeamCANCAN and fellow Buckeye alumni @swagatag.bsky.social @cancergrand.bsky.social #WomeninCachexia

Redirecting the spotlight to my lab 🫶🫶🫶🫶

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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The lab pulled up to attend the brilliant talk by @giuliabiffi.bsky.social at @crukcampanccan.bsky.social and @cruk-ci.bsky.social joint retreat!

To catch more awesome pancreatic cancer research, be sure to register for World Pancreatic Cancer Day mini symposium on 20th Nov! bit.ly/4nBuI11

Please register as we come together to discuss science, research and resources in pancreatic cancer as we celebrate the World Pancreatic Cancer Day! @gianluca-m.bsky.social

Members of our @crukcampanccan.bsky.social are hosting a World Pancreatic Cancer Day Symposium!

📅 Thursday 20 November | 1.30 - 4.30pm
📍 Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, CB2 0SP
ℹ️ Open to researchers with an interest in pancreatic cancer
🔗 Register: zurl.co/U9ZL9

🚨Registration is now open for the Cancer Research UK Pancreatic Cancer Conference 2026!🚨

Join me and my conference co-chairs @Aiims1742 @SaurLab for the inaugural meeting in London, UK, from 7-9 July 2026, hosted by @CR_UK.

Find out more: cruk.ink/47nQbDL

Biffi Laboratory Exploring the tumour microenvironment of pancreatic cancer

I’ve been terrible at posting updates about the lab but we are still happy and we still love each other 🤣. Starting the new Academic year with many updates, including welcoming our new (and first Ms) student #Johann, and @debi-mukh.bsky.social winning ALL THE AWARDS (lol).
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Celebrating the first Cancer Cachexia Awareness day organized by @cancercachexia.bsky.social. @giuliabiffi.bsky.social presented phenomenally our work on CAFs in pancreatic cancer cachexia.
Grateful to @ec.europa.eu #MSCAactions for making attending this meeting possible! Visit poster #129 to talk

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Women in Cachexia (WCX) recognition of Outstanding Work!
2 Speakers and 3 Poster presenters were chosen from abstracts submitted by minority gender individuals to the 8th @cancercachexia.bsky.social Conference held in Turin, Italy in September!

Nothing better to recharge me than 2 days of fun and science with my lovely lovely lab 💜

Important to remember that we are studying sub sections of humanity and hence not reaching universal conclusions.

Our lab is looking for a research assistants/pre-PhD to support our mouse work and research 🚨

Please share 🙏

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51648/

Thank you Sabrina!

⭐️ post-doc @debi-mukh.bsky.social

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Biffi Laboratory Exploring the tumour microenvironment of pancreatic cancer

Check out below our Lab’s latest news 🔝. Especially proud of our Lab’s post-docs that have been rocking it (2 more news RE this to be posted soon). And of course of winning “the most sociable lab” award 🥇 three years in a row! 😎🤩🥳

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Can I be added please?

Advanced Happy Birthday Tom! May the next year be amazing for you and the lab!