‘Entangled Stories’ an Eco-immunology ArtScience project
A chance meeting on the Isle of May between Becker Eco-immunology Branch Lead Professor Kathryn Else and Dr Rowan Bancroft from The University of Manchester, Dr Iris Mair from The University of Edinburgh, and artist Alice Angus resulted in conversations about drawing,...
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham visits Ardwick Green Route site
On October 3rd Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham visited the Kale Street site of the Ardwick Green Route, created by Ardwick Climate Action in partnership with the local community and researchers from the Lydia Becker Institute at the University of Manchester.The green...
Dr Juan Quintana awarded Wellcome Trust Career Development Award
Dr Juan Quintana from the Lydia Becker Institute has been awarded an 8-year Career Development Award from the Wellcome Trust worth £2.4 million to conduct cutting-edge research on the role B cells play in controlling circadian behavior and sleep during chronic...
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...
Could the immune system be responsible for the acute symptoms and long-term issues associated with concussion
The Becker's new Neuro-immunology Branch Lead Dr Andy Greenhalgh writes about his lab's work on concussion (or mild traumatic brain injury) in the latest in our 'Study in Focus' series. His research investigating the role of meningeal inflammation in mild traumatic...
Dr Jonathan Worboys awarded Wellcome Trust Career Development Award Fellowship
Dr Jonathan Worboys has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Career Development Award Fellowship to set up his lab at the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at The University of Manchester to research how nanoscale dimensions govern both the...
Extinction and biodiversity – church leaders visit The University of Manchester
On the 11th and 12th June, The University of Manchester hosted a visit from more than 40 Church Leaders from around the UK as part of the Equipping Christian leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS) scheme. ECLAS works to equip senior Christian leaders with the tools,...
Profile: Rachel Finlay
Rachel Finlay is a PhD student from our Wellcome Trust Immunomatrix in Complex Disease PhD Programme based in the Heprowth Lab. Find out about how an MSci in Cell Biology at UCL led to Rachel applying to be a PhD student here at the Becker, her current research...
Dr Matthew Sinton awarded Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award Fellowship
Dr Matthew Sinton from the Lydia Becker Institute has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award Fellowship to undertake exciting new research to understand how cytokines (IL-17 and others) drive changes in body fat (adipose tissue mass), brain...
Postdoc Dr Amanda Ridley wins 2024 ICIS-Pfizer Amanda Proudfoot Tribute Award
Becker Postdoc Dr Amanda Ridley from the Dyer lab is the recipient of the 2024 ICIS-Pfizer Amanda Proudfoot Tribute Award for Advances in Chemokine Biology by a Trainee.Amanda's research in the Dyer lab focuses on defining how chemokines and glycosaminoglycan (GAG)...
