Make Quick Advances in Cancer Research with Simple Western

Addressing Cancer From All Sides

Jane Gray is the Head of the Research Instrumentation Core Facility at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. The facility bridges the world-class science of the University of Cambridge together with Addenbrooke’s Hospital. It serves research groups focusing on different questions relating to diagnosing, treating, and preventing various cancers.

Pairing Scientists with the Latest Technologies

The core provides researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute access to state-of-the-art equipment and specialized technologies for advances in cancer research. Scientists sit down with Jane’s group to discuss what they want to achieve and then receive training and support to run experiments on the recommended technology. As a leader in cancer research, the Research Instrumentation Core is always looking for new technologies, like Simple Western™, that’ll help researchers at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute make discoveries and advances in cancer research and maintain its status as a top cancer research institute.

Research Questions Answered Faster

Once the Research Instrumentation Core obtained a Simple Western instrument, they quickly saw interest in the system increase. Simple Western gave researchers better throughput and high reproducibility in results obtained in just three hours!

Many researchers in the facility use Simple Western to screen samples. They’re now able to process lots of samples in quick succession, and the hands-free nature of the system lets researchers focus on other aspects of their projects. Research with Simple Western is now approximately 3-4X faster compared to before. Users at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute are seeing their projects handled more efficiently, saving them time and giving them answers to their research questions faster than ever.

Getting the Most Out of Precious Samples

In the past three months, Jane has seen Simple Western's usage increase from one Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute research group to four, with multiple users from each group. Jane expects the system’s popularity will grow as researchers see and hear from others using it. Simple Western only requires three microliters of sample to generate high-quality data. Jane predicts this will benefit the many Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute scientists using precious patient tumor samples from Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Researchers will be able to make these small samples go further and perform more experiments - allowing them to make discoveries and advances in cancer research faster than ever before.