MRC WIMM early career researchers present to Parliament
7 March 2024
Centre for Computational Biology MRC MHU Paediatrics RDM
Four members of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine reached the final of STEM for Britain 2024, where they presented their research to Members of Parliament.
World Cancer Day 2024: Highlighting Cancer Research at the MRC WIMM
4 February 2024
Department of Oncology MRC MHU NDWRH Paediatrics RDM
This World Cancer Day, we heard from four Group Leaders at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine about their work and how their groups are helping in the fight against cancer.
Anindita Roy appointed Professor of Paediatric Haematology
13 September 2023
The Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford is delighted to announce that Anindita Roy has been named Professor of Paediatric Haematology at the University of Oxford.
Irene Roberts delivers Ham-Wasserman Lecture
13 January 2023
Presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, the award and lectureship recognises individuals from outside the United States who have made significant contributions to Haematology.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
3 October 2022
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, where our Childhood Leukaemia research group have taken action to help raise awareness for this cause.
Developmental dynamics of the neural crest–mesenchymal axis in creating the thymic microenvironment
16 May 2022
A new paper from the Holländer Group has shown that fibroblasts in the thymus, often considered simply as dull “structural” cells, are much more complex than previously thought.
Project funding for personalised childhood cancer treatments
29 April 2022
Funding from the Azaylia Foundation will support the Scientific Advances for Infant Leukaemia (SAIL) programme.
New model for infant leukaemia announced
25 November 2021
The breakthrough could lead to development of new treatments for infant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
$2m awarded to explore the role of ancestry in vaccine response
17 November 2021
MRC HIU NDM NDORMS Paediatrics RDM
The Lymph nodE single-cell Genomics AnCestrY (LEGACY) Network will create an ethnically diverse single-cell atlas of the response to commonly used vaccines such as flu vaccines with a focus on responses in lymph nodes.
New atlas revealed of bone marrow haematopoiesis during development
29 September 2021
A new study published this week in Nature, provides the most detailed analysis so far of the prenatal development of blood and immune cells in the bone marrow.
Changes in blood cell production over the human lifetime may hold clues to patterns of disease
16 September 2021
Centre for Computational Biology MRC MHU OCH Paediatrics
A new paper published in Cell Reports reveals that changes in the gene expression of blood stem cells occur across the human lifetime; an important step in the understanding and treatment of blood disorders.