Kay Curtin

PPI Council Member

Kay Curtin is living with Melanoma Cancer. Diagnosed in 2004 she was a participant in a randomised adjuvant clinical trial. She progressed to Stage 4 in 2015 since then she has helped run Melanoma Support Ireland.

She has attended ASCO and presented at ESMO patient advocacy track. She was amongst the first cohort of advocates to complete the IPPOSI- Irish patient education program.

Kay is the patient consultant to Clinical Trials Ireland melanoma DSSG and a member of their Patient Forum.

She is a faculty member of Melanoma Patient Network Europe and has presented at their annual conference. She presented the first patient led poster at Irish Melanoma Forum conference based on her own research.

She is currently a student at UCC studying Youth and Community work.

Her interests include patient involvement in research, patient-reported outcomes, patient access to innovation, dispelling the pseudoscience that surrounds cancer.

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3D mammosphere culture of breast epithelial cell line MCF10A.

Courtesy of Dr. Emer Bourke, NUI Galway

Phospho-Akt expression and localisation

Mediated by VEGF in A549 lung cancer cells. Visualised by high content image analysis.

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

Metaphase chromosome spread of Jurkat T-lymphoma cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

Apoptosis assessment of SKMES-1 lung cancer cells

Using a multiparameter apoptosis staining kit, showing cell nuclei (blue), actin (green) and mitochondrial activity (orange).

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

HeLa Cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

IACR & EACR Joint Conference 2020

26 — 28 February 2020 at Galway Bay Hotel, Galway

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Mitotic Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia K562 Cells

Courtesy of Rebecca Gorry, PhD Student, Mc Gee Lab, UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, UCD

Cell to Cell Tweeting

Via nanoparticles (red) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)

Courtesy of Sinéad Lindsay, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin (UCD) Ireland.

Confocal Microscopy Analysis

Of phospho-Akt expression in H460 lung cancer cells in response to hypoxia (0.5% O2).

Courtesy of Dr Martin Barr, Clinical Scientist & Adjunct Assistant Professor, St James’s Hospital & Trinity College Dublin

EACR Free Membership

The IACR is an affiliated national society and its members benefit from full membership of the EACR.

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IACR 2023 Conference
Venue: Athlone Radisson Blu Hotel
Dates: Wed 22/02/2023 – Fri 24/02/2023

Please check back later in the year for more information.

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