HLRI, a major new institute, opens bringing together the largest concentration of scientists and clinicians in heart and lung medicine in Europe
The Department of Medicine is the largest Department in the School of Clinical Medicine, housing around 400 staff and 150 Graduate Students. Research is our major focus, spanning fundamental aspects of biology, through to work on disease mechanisms, as well as clinical translation.
To mark #WorldTBDay, Lalita Ramakrishnan, Group Leader @MedCambridge & @CellBiol_MRCLMB discusses her career, inspiration behind her key #tuberculosis findings & her approach to mentorship.
Read the full interview here: https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/16/3/dmm050189/297311/Redefining-tuberculosis-an-interview-with-Lalita
#CITIID #MedCambridgeNews
We are delighted to announce that today we have become the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute to honour a very generous philanthropic donation from @victordahdaleh
@Cambridge_Uni @RoyalPapworth @CUHPartners
🙏 We are deeply grateful to Dr Dahdaleh for his generous gift of £16 million to the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute @HLRI_Cambridge
@RoyalPapworth.
See how this gift will support its work 👇
£16million gift to support Europe’s largest heart and lung research
The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute (HLRI) is home to the largest concentration of scienti...
bit.ly
Overjoyed to be awarded a @BBSRC Discovery Fellowship @Cambridge_Uni @MedCambridge
BBSRC announces 22 new Discovery Fellows
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has named the 22 successful candidates for its pres...
www.ukri.org
Why are people who are obese at increased risk of severe #COVID19?
Scientists thought it was most likely due to excessive inflammation.
"What we found was the absolute opposite," says Prof Menna Clatworthy
@ClatworthyLab @andymoz78 @MedCambridge
Underactive immune response may explain obesity link to COVID-19
Scientists at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID) and Wellcome Sanger Inst...
www.cam.ac.uk
It's fun to celebrate the wins @HLRI_Cambridge - Research awards funded by @TheBHF @dzhk_germany @Hartstichting being won in collaboration with members of our teams. We raised a glass to all those involved including @Jmtarkin @Meri421_cam @hfj22 and @aidanbutty
