Royal Society: "Unravelling the origins of childhood cancer"

This livestream public talk from the Royal Society by Professor Sam Behjati is titled "Francis Crick Prize Lecture: Unravelling the origins of childhood cancer".

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Talk details can be found below.
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/10/francis-crick-prize/

SUMMARY
The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2025 is awarded to Professor Sam Behjati for fundamental discoveries into the developmental roots of childhood cancer.

Cancer is a leading cause of death in children in the UK. It is thought to arise before birth during human development. However, the precise origin of most types of childhood cancer is unknown. Advances in our ability to read DNA and process vast genetic data sets have enabled investigations into the origins of childhood cancer. This includes retrospective lineage tracing approaches that build on using naturally occurring errors in DNA (mutations) as barcodes of human development. In this lecture Sam will present some of the insights retrospective lineage tracing has delivered which may pave the way for early detection and prevention of childhood cancer.

### Attending online

• The lecture will also be livestreamed here and on the Royal Society YouTube channel
• You can take part in the live Q&A via Slido
• Please connect to the livestream a few minutes before the talk starts.
• This event will be recorded (including the live Q&A) and the recording will be available on YouTube soon after the event