COSMIC News

Celebrating 30 years of opportunity, evolution and groundbreaking science with COSMIC’s Karen McLaren

19 Dec 2024

Celebrate Karen McLaren’s 30-year journey at the Wellcome Genome Campus! From her involvement in pioneering genomics to leading COSMIC's product strategy, we sat down with Karen to discover her inspiring story and career evolution.

Tackling High Medical Need Cancers with the Power of Large-Scale Genomics

5 Dec 2024

"Cancers of high medical need" span a vast range of diseases requiring innovative approaches and comprehensive genomic data. Here, we delve into how COSMIC v101 tackles these challenges through large-scale studies, including insights into rare tumours such as radiation-induced papillary thyroid cancer and biliary tract cancer.

Largest genomic cancer resource accelerating research and drug development

21 May 2024

Press release

Published on 21/05/24

COSMIC has released the 100th version of its knowledgebase, containing further information on 300,000 somatic mutations linked to human cancers.

‘You can’t be what you can’t see’: Inspiring inclusion with Nidhi Bindal Dhir, COSMIC Head of IT

8 Mar 2024

International Women’s Day 2024 is focused on inspiring inclusion. We are privileged at COSMIC to work with a range of incredible women such as our Head of IT Nidhi Bindal Dhir who we caught up with to reflect on her 15 years as part of the team!

Curation in context: A glimpse into COSMIC v99

29 Nov 2023

To celebrate the release of COSMIC v99, we delve into how focusing on expert manual curation of specific genes, resistance mutations & more, emulates our dedication to being a reliable, sustainable source of genomic data on somatic mutations in cancer

Topographical features in the genome and how they’re helping us understand tumorigenesis

17 Aug 2023

In a special guest-edition to our blog, Dr Burcak Otlu from the Cancer Grand Challenges Mutographs team talks us through the new topographical analysis data being added to COSMIC following the recent publication of the team's latest paper!

Professor Sir Mike Stratton

27 Jul 2023

As he prepared to step down as director of The Sanger Institute we interviewed Sir Professor Mike Stratton. Join us as we reflect on his fascinating career, his role in the early days of COSMIC and his advice for aspiring scientists!

Mysteries, myths, and malignancy in skin cancers; highlighting three new studies in COSMIC v98

23 May 2023

To celebrate COSMIC v98’s release, we took inspiration from our curation team’s aim to improve representation of the plethora of rare subtypes of skin cancer and bring you three things you may not know about skin cancer!

UV nail dryers and DNA damage

18 May 2023

Dr Maria Zhivagui discusses her research that’s captured the attention of the cancer research community and public alike. Explore the deleterious effects UV nail dryers can have on DNA, possible long term consequences of these damages and much more!

COSMIC welcomes Jon Teague as new director

16 May 2023

The COSMIC team is delighted to welcome our new director Jon Teague!

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