Amid busy schedules, experiments, deadlines, and travel, we finally have the chance to pause and reflect on a moment that reminded us of what truly sustains a research group: people, connection, and shared purpose . As a research group working across personalised medicine, microfluidics, liquid biopsy, tumour microenvironment modelling, drug prediction, wearable technologies, and AI-driven medicine , our work spans diverse disciplines and approaches. What unites us is a share