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‘Targeted Therapies’ at Big Bang Fair 2025
20 August 2025
Earlier this year, a group of researchers from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine attended the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, showcasing medical research through a series of hands-on activities.
Making it Personal – Engaging the public through theatre
14 July 2025
Innovative public engagement project explores the intersection of cutting-edge science and the raw honesty of the stage.
Funding awarded for new theatre-based community engagement project
23 January 2025
Alison Kay and Anne Goriely, together with Minna Jeffery (St. Anne’s College) and Lisa Hinton (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences), have won an award from the University of Oxford’s PCER Fund for a project called “Making it personal”, which will use theatre to explore public perception of a new form of genetic testing.
Vaccines, Meteorites and Gene Editing at IF Oxford 2024
22 November 2024
In October, members of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine took part in a series of events for Oxford Science + Ideas Festival.
MRC WIMM Researchers at IF Oxford - book now
22 August 2024
IF Oxford returns as a digital and in-real-life science and ideas Festival with events running throughout October 2024.
MRC WIMM early career researchers present to Parliament
7 March 2024
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.
Communicating science through story
28 July 2022
This week researchers took part in a 'Storytelling for Scientists' workshop; the final training session organised for the MRC WIMM's 2022 Engaged Researcher Programme.
MRC WIMM research at the 2022 Cheltenham Science Festival
9 June 2022
'The Butterfly Effect: Covid-19 and Our Ancestors' ran on 8th June 2022 at the Parabola Arts Centre in Cheltenham.
Join us at the IF Science and Ideas Festival
12 October 2021
Come down to Templars Shopping Centre on 23rd or 24th October 2021 for ‘Science at the Shops’ as part of IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival.
MRC WIMM's Noemi Roy among seven projects awarded Public Engagement Seed Funding 2020-21
3 February 2021
Dr Noemi Roy has received funding in the 2020-21 round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund as one of seven projects for innovative work to engage the public with medical research.
Role-playing computer game helps players understand how vaccines work on a global scale
8 October 2020
A free game launched today allows players to role-play the deployment of a virtual vaccine to help to halt the global spread of a viral pandemic.
Professor Anne Goriely awarded Enriching Engagement (Round 2) funding
25 August 2020
The awardees for the second round of the University of Oxford’s Enriching Engagement funding scheme have been announced, including six projects from across the Medical Sciences Division.
MRC WIMM research shines at this years’ Oxford Science and Ideas Festival
29 October 2019
From a stand on new cancer therapies to a battle for the iron crown, our institute had a strong presence in this year’s Science and Ideas Festival!
Two weeks of inspiring science
9 August 2019
For the second year running, the MRC WIMM hosted a group of work experience students from under-represented backgrounds, in partnership with in2scienceUK.
MRC WIMM wins VC Public Engagement Award
10 July 2019
Our institute has won a Building Capacity Award in this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research (PER) Awards. The biannual awards celebrate excellence in public engagement across the University of Oxford.
Arts meets science in dance exploration of cell biology
2 July 2019
MRC MHU collaborated with dancers, teachers and artists to support a new dance performance on DNA and immunology aimed at young people and their families
MRC WIMM scientists take research on new cancer therapy to local community
25 June 2019
Cancer immunotherapy was the focus of this year's participation in the MRC Festival of Medical Research, which took our researchers to shopping centres in Didcot, Reading and Oxford.
Patient involvement partnership sets priorities for rare anaemias
28 February 2019
Patients, carers, clinicians and researchers collaborate to decide key research questions for future research.
MRC WIMM research at the Royal Institution
25 February 2019
How can genome editing improve human health? That's the theme our researchers took to the latest Royal Institution Family Fun Day in London!
Untangling chromatin
4 January 2019
Researchers at the MRC WIMM Centre for Computational Biology have developed a user-friendly platform to visualise chromosomal conformations in 3D, with potential virtual reality applications.