MRC WIMM hosts Nobel celebration
We were honoured to host a celebration marking this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to our alumnus Sir Peter Ratcliffe.
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Applications are now open for our 4 year PhD studentships! The deadline for applications is the 10th of January 2020.
Read morePromising therapy for common form of eczema identified in early-stage trial
A therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis – the most common form of eczema – in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the MRC HIU.
Read moreNew grant to tackle the immune response to ovarian cancer
Many congratulations to Prof Ahmed Ahmed and Prof Enzo Cerundolo, winners of the Ovarian Cancer Action International Grand Challenge Award.
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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.
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Using computational biology to help understand complex biological systems and combat a range of human diseases.
Latest Publications
Sterile activation of invariant natural killer T cells by ER-stressed antigen-presenting cells.
Bedard M. et al, (2019), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Single cell analysis of bone marrow derived CD34+ cells from children with sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
Hua P. et al, (2019), Blood
Proof-of-concept clinical trial of etokimab shows a key role for IL-33 in atopic dermatitis pathogenesis.
Chen Y-L. et al, (2019), Science translational medicine, 11
Reconstruction of the Global Neural Crest Gene Regulatory Network In Vivo.
Williams RM. et al, (2019), Dev Cell, 51, 255 - 276.e7
A Spontaneous Ring Opening Reaction Leads to a Repair‐Resistant T Oxidation Product in Genomic DNA
Sahakyan A. et al, (2019), ChemBioChem
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