Dress super-smart, dig out that sparkly festive jumper, or just wear your favourite comfy clothes around the office on Friday 15th December to help raise much needed funds for cancer research at Warwick.

Text WCRC17 £2 to 70070 to donate £2 by text, or give online on this page. You can also get a collection tin for your department by emailing benefactors@warwick.ac.uk.

Researchers at the Warwick Cancer Research Centre are taking a distinctive approach in the fight against cancer. The Centre brings together the world class expertise of clinicians, chemists, biologists, engineers and mathematicians to discover new approaches to drug discovery, personalised medicine, diagnosis and patient care.

For example, Professor Lawrence Young is working to tackle ovarian cancer. They've developed a new technology to examine the behaviour of individual cells, and are applying this technique to cancer cells, focusing on patients with ovarian cancer, which is often diagnosed late.

A patient’s response to chemotherapy is unpredictable, frequently leading to the development of drug resistance where the tumour no longer responds to therapy.

Using this new technique they're able to analyse the behaviour of 20,000 genes in a single cancer cell to see whether they can predict the patient’s response to chemotherapy and modify the therapy accordingly.

So dress festive, sparkly, glamorous or comfy on Friday 15th December to get involved and raise money for a worthy cause right here on campus! Remember to also share your fun and festive photographs via our Twitter page @SupportWarwick and hashtag #WarwickXmas. If 1000 staff members join in and each give £2, we would reach our £2,000 target!