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\n \n\n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Ling Felce award will promote cross-disciplinary excellence in bioinformatics.
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\n \n\n \n18 August 2022
\n \n \n \nA study from Davis Group is the first to describe the structure of the T-cell receptor when bound to an activating ligand. The findings shed light on an important trigger in the immune system, and suggest a completely new process by which cell receptors can be activated.
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\n \n\n \n5 August 2022
\n \n \n \nCo-founded by Prof. Simon Davis, MiroBio focuses on developing therapeutics for inflammatory diseases.
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\n \n\n \n29 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe paper, published in Nature Communications reveals key genes involved in the common developmental disease.
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\n \n\n \n22 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) aims to support research groups to embed sustainability into their work.
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\n \n\n \n19 July 2022
\n \n \n \nOn Saturday 16th July, volunteers from the MRC WIMM talked the science of blood, lab techniques and coding at the Play and Activity Day organised by the Oxfordshire Play Association.
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\n \n\n \n7 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe award demonstrates the group's commitment to sustainable science.
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\n \n\n \n6 July 2022
\n \n \n \nUp to $30 million in funding has been announced by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to bring a new nanoparticle vaccine offering protection against a range of coronaviruses to clinical trial.
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\n \n\n \n28 June 2022
\n \n \n \nIn a paper published in Nature Neuroscience, the Fugger Group describe molecular pathways of MS neurodegeneration in unprecedented detail.
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\n \n\n \n21 June 2022
\n \n \n \nHeld on 16th June 2022 at Somerville College in Oxford, the one-day event brought together post-doctoral researchers from across the Institute to share their research.
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\n \n\n \n16 June 2022
\n \n \n \nFour related projects aim to unravel how the iron we eat shapes how the immune system develops and responds to vaccines.
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\n \n\n \n13 June 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announced the result of fundraising efforts across the past few months.
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\n \n\n \n8 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThis year\u2019s Student Presentation Day saw researchers from across the MRC WIMM gather to celebrate the work of students at the institute.
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\n \n\n \n7 June 2022
\n \n \n \nAlain Townsend, Tiong Kit Tan and Pramila Rijal among those awarded the Chemistry Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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\n \n\n \n16 May 2022
\n \n \n \nA new paper from the Holl\u00e4nder Group has shown that fibroblasts in the thymus, often considered simply as dull \u201cstructural\u201d cells, are much more complex than previously thought.
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\n \n\n \n13 May 2022
\n \n \n \nDr Kate Attfield awarded project funding by Connect Immune Research and The Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.
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\n \n\n \n31 March 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and the MRC Human Immunology Unit have used 3D and live-imaging to show how resident memory B cells boost antibodies to fight influenza.
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\n \n\n \n25 March 2022
\n \n \n \nFor British Science Week, members of the MRC WIMM visited a local Oxfordshire primary school for an interactive science day \u2013 one of the first of its kind since the start of the pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n7 March 2022
\n \n \n \nIt is with great sadness that we learnt of the tragic death of Dr Ling Felce, a postdoctoral researcher within Professor Tao Dong's group at the MRC WIMM and MRC HIU, on Tuesday 1st March 2022.
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\n \n\n \n3 March 2022
\n \n \n \nSeven academics in Oxford have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their outstanding leadership in research.
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