Science Forum

The next UKMRA Scientific Forum will be held at the UKMS Autumn Day on Thursday 14th November 2024 at the Cavendish Conference Centre (22 Duchess Mews, London, W1G 9DT). This meeting will mark the 25th year anniversary of the UK Myeloma Society and will discuss the past, current and future directions of myeloma therapy and scientific advances.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered to present their research. Please see below the Scientific Session Programme, the full UKMS Autumn Day programme with registration details will be available on the UKMS website soon. The programme will also be sent to the Science Forum members. Spaces are limited! We would appreciate if you could let your group members and collaborators know in case they may be interested in attending.

Kind regards

Sarah Gooding (University of Oxford) & Shelly Lawson (University of Sheffield)
UKMRA Scientific Forum organisers

UKMRA Scientific Session

Thursday 14th November 2024

2.00 Beatriz Gamez  (University of Oxford) – Effect of cholesterol on multiple myeloma pathogenesis

2.15 Elise Rees (University College London) -Investigating the effect of myeloma disease development from precursors on NK cells and their function

2.30 Rebecca Andrews(University of Sheffield) – Evidence for peri-lacunar remodelling and altered osteocyte lacuno-canalicular network in mouse models of myeloma bone disease

2.45 Aneta Mikulasova (Newcastle University)-Breaking silence: Unveiling structural variants in compact heterochromatin regions of the myeloma genome

3.00 Yigen Li (Institute of Cancer Research)-Epigenetic combination therapies to overcome IMiD resistance

3.15 Q&A Panel discussion

3.30 Coffee break

3.45 Networking/collaboration session (speed networking)

4.30 Summary and close