Dr Jonathan Worboys receives FBMH Research Staff of the Year 2024 Award
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Worboys who received the ‘FBMH Research Staff of the Year Award 2024‘ at this year’s University of Manchester Research Staff Excellence Awards. Jonathan received the award for his ground-breaking research on how receptors on the surface of T cells arrange themselves to control their function.
Commenting on Jonathan’s award Becker Executive Committee member/DIIIRM Head of Division Professor Mark Travis said “I am delighted that Jonathan has been recognised with the FBMH Research Staff of the Year Award for 2024. Jonathan’s work leading up to this award showed that a specific receptor (called TIGIT) can rearrange itself into large clusters on the surface of T cells, leading to inhibition of T cell activity. This appears especially important within tumours, highlighting a new important therapeutic target to turn on the activity of T cells to kill cancer cells, and leading to a field-leading first-author publication in Nature Communications.
Based on these findings, Jonathan has just been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Career Development Award, aiming to identify how other receptors clustering on T cells can inhibit their function, and how best to therapeutically target these pathways in cancer (worth almost £1.5 million over 8 years).
We are delighted that Jonathan will be pursuing his independent research career in Manchester, and the Research Staff of the Year Award is a perfect reward for his hard work as a post-doc leading up to this.”
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