Turning viruses into cancer medicines. Head of Solid Cancers & Professor of Translational Virotherapies @cardiffuni. FLSW. Awesome group: @virustinkerer. Dad to 2 cricket 🏏nuts. #LFC #ProEU. #Athiest. #Humanist.
Alan Parker
Massive congratulations to Alan Parker for winning the Translational Microbiology Prize 2026. We caught up with him after his lecture and asked him more about his talk and how it feels to have been awarded this prize.
Great to see this out - comparative PET imaging & biodistribution of 3 agents targeting avB6 integrin - a highly upregulated tumour marker associated with invasion & metastasis. Congrats 1st author Emma Swift & Snr author @drbayliss.bsky.social - great collab with John Marshall @qmbci.bsky.social
Congratulations to the 2026 Translational Prize Winner, Professor Alan Parker!
#Microbio26
A great honour to win this award 🏆 and deliver the prize lecture this morning. Sincere thanks to the @microbiologysociety.org & particularly those who very kindly nominated me…and of course to those who tolerated my talk this morning about how to train your (oncolytic) virus 🦠!
Thank you for the super kind words, Lee! Much appreciated and glad you enjoyed it!
Closing a week today (10/04/26) so apply soon if you’re interested!
(A rare political post - scroll on if not of interest!)
I don’t agree with all the @greenparty.org.uk stand for, but I’m 💯 behind the pro-EU and sustainable energy stance and treating all with kindness & respect regardless of race.
Their win in Gorton and Denton is a victory for hope over hate.
