On Tuesday 12th September CITIID welcomed a group of fourteen Brazilian high school students from less privileged social groups as part of a visit to the Biomedical Campus. This was not a typical school visit, as these students live and study in rural areas of Brazil, and some belong to indigenous populations or communities first […]
Symposium celebrates impact of Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID)
Leading research experts, donors and key partners came together to celebrate the impact to date of the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID), and to showcase the breadth of its current exciting scientific research at a symposium held on Thursday 13th April. CITIID is a flagship Research Institute located within the Jeffrey […]
Rare genetic disease may protect Ashkenazi Jews against TB
Department of Medicine Scientists may have solved the question of why Ashkenazi Jews are significantly more susceptible to a rare genetic disorder known as Gaucher disease – and the answer may help settle the debate about whether they are less susceptible to tuberculosis (TB).
A patient-centric modelling framework captures recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection
An international team of scientists has developed an online tool for predicting recovery from COVID-19, based on an array of complex biological signatures. Their approach could pave the way for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning long COVID Initial research on SARS-CoV-2 focussed on the immune response to the virus in order to […]
Improving the diagnosis and monitoring of rare blood vessel disease
Two St Catharine’s Fellows are part of a team of scientists and doctors that showed for the first time that a new assessment tool holds major promise for diagnosing and monitoring large vessel vasculitis (LVV), a group of diseases that affect the body’s blood vessels. LVV is rare but causes chronic inflammation of the larger […]
Cambridge achievers recognised in New Year Honours
Economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta receives an elevated knighthood. Sir Partha, the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, is made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for services to economics and the natural environment. Another economist, Dr Graham Gudgin, of the Centre for Business Research, is awarded a CBE for services to economic […]
Cambridge Festival trailer – Dr Giles Yeo
National trial launched to test re-purposing existing drugs to treat COVID-19 patients
A new trial to prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients has been launched, led by clinicians and scientists in Cambridge and London. TACTIC, as the trial is known, will test whether re-purposing existing drugs, which target the body’s own immune response, can prevent people suffering severe organ failure or death. The trial is […]
National trial launched to test re-purposing existing drugs to treat COVID-19 patients
A new trial to prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients has been launched, led by clinicians and scientists in Cambridge and London. TACTIC, as the trial is known, will test whether re-purposing existing drugs, which target the body’s own immune response, can prevent people suffering severe organ failure or death. The trial is […]
National trial launched to test re-purposing existing drugs to treat COVID-19 patients
A new trial to prevent organ failure and death in COVID-19 patients has been launched, led by clinicians and scientists in Cambridge and London. TACTIC, as the trial is known, will test whether re-purposing existing drugs, which target the body’s own immune response, can prevent people suffering severe organ failure or death. The trial is […]
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