Prof Alison Simmons elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Many congratulations to Prof Simmons from MRC HIU for this distinction, which recognises her contribution to the fields of innate immunity and inflammatory bowel disease.
Read moreTwo for the price of one: active and passive immunity from trials of experimental vaccines
Therapeutic antibodies can be isolated from healthy volunteers exposed to the Ebola vaccine, but not Ebola virus itself.
Read moreFrom The Gambia to Oxford
Post Doctoral Researcher Caitlin Naylor discusses her experiences living and working at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM.
Read morePatient involvement partnership sets priorities for rare anaemias
Patients, carers, clinicians and researchers collaborate to decide key research questions for future research.
Read moreMRC Human Immunology Unit
Human immunology and the development of treatments against infectious diseases, cancer, allergy and autoimmune disease.
MRC Molecular Haematology Unit
Understanding how mature blood cells are normally made from stem cells and how this is perturbed in common blood disorders.
Centre for Computational Biology
Using computational biology to help understand complex biological systems and combat a range of human diseases.
Latest Publications
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PA-X antagonises MAVS-dependent accumulation of early type I interferon messenger RNAs during influenza A virus infection.
Rigby RE. et al, (2019), Scientific reports, 9
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Cell-intrinsic depletion of Aml1-ETO-expressing pre-leukemic hematopoietic stem cells by K-Ras activating mutation.
Di Genua C. et al, (2019), Haematologica
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Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies for Ebola Virus Infection Derived from Vaccinated Humans.
Rijal P. et al, (2019), Cell Rep, 27, 172 - 186.e7
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Surfaceome interrogation using an RNA-seq approach highlights leukemia initiating cell biomarkers in an LMO2 T cell transgenic model.
Pais H. et al, (2019), Sci Rep, 9
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Decoupling tRNA promoter and processing activities enables specific Pol-II Cas9 guide RNA expression
Knapp DJHF. et al, (2018)
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MDC1 Interacts with TOPBP1 to Maintain Chromosomal Stability during Mitosis.
Leimbacher P-A. et al, (2019), Mol Cell