Leprosy is an infectious disease that affects the skin and peripheral nerves and is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and, less commonly, Mycobacterium lepromatosis. According to the World Health Organization, there has been a dramatic decrease in the global disease burden in the past few decades: from 5.2 million people with leprosy in 1985 to 176,176 […]
Department of Medicine wins Green Impact Awards
Green Impact Awards 2016-17 On 21 June the University of Cambridge presented its 2017 ‘Cambridge Green Challenge’ awards. The ceremony recognised the efforts of staff and students who had worked to improve the environmental performance of their places of work and study throughout the 2016-17 academic year. READ MORE
Winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Impact Award for the School of Clinical Medicine – Professor Nick Morrell “From genetics to new treatments in pulmonary arterial hypertension”
Congratulations to Professor Nick Morrell on his receipt of the Vice Chancellor’s Impact Award for the School of Clinical Medicine at the award ceremony on Thursday 13th July, hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. The Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards were established to recognise and reward those whose research has led to excellent impact beyond […]
University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellors awards – Winners of ‘Public Engagement in Research Award’ 2017 – Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch, Jane Kennet and Katerina Anselmiova (Departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry)
Since the commencement of their research programme to develop drugs to treat Type 1 diabetes, Dr Waldron-Lynch, Ms. Kennet and Ms. Anselmiova (The CamT1D Team) have developed their Research ECOsystem, a public engagement programme to engage participants, patients, families, funders, colleagues, institutions, companies and the community, with the aim of ensuring that their research remains […]
Snip, snip, cure: correcting defects in the genetic blueprint
Dr James Thaventhiran points to a diagram of a 14-year-old boy’s family tree. Some of the symbols are shaded black. “These family members have a very severe form of immunodeficiency. The children get infections and chest problems, the adults have bowel problems, and the father died from cancer during the study. The boy himself had […]
Snip, snip, cure: correcting defects in the genetic blueprint
Dr James Thaventhiran points to a diagram of a 14-year-old boy’s family tree. Some of the symbols are shaded black. “These family members have a very severe form of immunodeficiency. The children get infections and chest problems, the adults have bowel problems, and the father died from cancer during the study. The boy himself had […]
Vice-Chancellor’s awards recognise the difference researchers make to society
The announcement was made at a prize ceremony held at the Old Schools on 13 July. At the same event, one of Cambridge’s leading experts on EU law – and in particular, Brexit – received one of the Vice Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards for her work around the EU Referendum. Professor Sir Leszek […]
Vice-Chancellor’s awards recognise the difference researchers make to society
The announcement was made at a prize ceremony held at the Old Schools on 13 July. At the same event, one of Cambridge’s leading experts on EU law – and in particular, Brexit – received one of the Vice Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards for her work around the EU Referendum. Professor Sir Leszek […]
The self-defence force awakens
An army of cells constantly patrols within us, attacking anything it recognises as foreign, keeping us safe from invading pathogens. But sometimes things go wrong: the soldiers mistake benign cells for invaders, turning their friendly fire on us and declaring war. The consequences are diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 […]
The bug hunters and the microbiome
Their microbial quarry gives Dr Trevor Lawley and Professor Gordon Dougan an interesting take on the world and human interaction. When we meet at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, where they both lead research groups, we shake hands. For me, it’s a social norm; for them, it’s a chance to swap bugs. “When we shook […]