Marc Bullock, an MRC Clinical Research Fellow at the University and a Registrar in General Surgery at Southampton General Hospital has received a Royal College of Surgeons Fulbright Award to enable him to conduct research in America.
The award will allow Marc to study at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating world-wide.
Marc was selected from a strong group of applicants and will conduct research into the molecular origins of colon cancer metastasis. Metastasis, the process whereby cancer spreads to other organs, is a major cause of death in western societies. A better understanding of this may reveal opportunities to develop new and more personalized treatment strategies to help improve and extend the lives of patients with colon cancer.
Marc said: “To be awarded the Royal College of Surgeons Fulbright Award is a great honour and reflects the quality of clinical and academic training provided by the Cancer Sciences Unit at the University of Southampton and Division of Surgery at Southampton General Hospital. As a Fulbright Scholar I will be working at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, one of the world’s foremost research institutions and the best rated cancer hospital in the USA. This opportunity to live and work in Texas will be hugely rewarding and exciting for me and my family, and will provide me with new skills and expertise which I will be able to reinvest in my clinical practice back in the UK.”
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