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  • The Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation
  • Research
    • Barrier immunology
    • Cancer immunology
    • Cardiovascular immunology and multi-morbidities
    • Cellular immunology
    • Eco-immunology and context-specific immunology
    • Immune tolerance
    • Immuno-informatics
    • Immuno-matrix
    • Life course immunology
    • Neuro-immunology
    • Pathogens, parasites and commensals
    • COVID-19
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Does COVID really damage your immune system and make you more vulnerable to infections? The evidence is lacking

Does COVID really damage your immune system and make you more vulnerable to infections? The evidence is lacking

by mdehxaba | Jan 23, 2023 | COVID-19, News, Sheena Cruickshank

Our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the large wave of respiratory tract infections over the past two months in countries like the UK and the US, which has led some to question whether COVID damages the...

Professor Tracy Hussell takes up British Society of Immunology Presidency

Professor Tracy Hussell takes up British Society of Immunology Presidency

by mdehxaba | Dec 8, 2022 | News, Tracy Hussell

The British Society for Immunology (BSI) welcomed Lydia Becker Institute Director Professor Tracy Hussell as their new President at the Annual General Meeting, held in Liverpool on 6 December.Tracy was elected earlier in the year and takes over the role from outgoing...

Dr Sean Knight awarded a BMA Foundation Long COVID grant

Dr Sean Knight awarded a BMA Foundation Long COVID grant

by mdehxaba | Dec 1, 2022 | COVID-19, News, Sean Knight

Our Barrier immunology Deputy Branch Lead Dr Sean Knight has been awarded a BMA Foundation J Moulton grant for research into Long COVID.Up to 70 percent of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 pneumonitis have persistent symptoms several months after the acute...

COVID: inhalable and nasal vaccines could offer more durable protection than regular shots

COVID: inhalable and nasal vaccines could offer more durable protection than regular shots

by mdehxaba | Nov 15, 2022 | COVID-19, Media Coverage, News, Sheena Cruickshank

Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the potential of inhalable and nasal vaccines to offer more durable protection against COVID-19 than regular shots.While conventional needle-in-your-arm vaccines induce a more systemic immune response,...

The Day Ardwick Stood Still – Ardwick Climate Action

The Day Ardwick Stood Still – Ardwick Climate Action

by mdehxaba | Nov 1, 2022 | News, Public Engagement

Written by George Adams, Joseph Morris, and Professor Sheena Cruickshank Air pollution is an ever-increasing threat to human health and the environment. Air pollution kills approximately 64,000 people/ year in England. Not only can poor air quality kill you, but it...

How feeding cues and circadian rhythms in IgA converge to regulate the microbiota – Science Immunology

How feeding cues and circadian rhythms in IgA converge to regulate the microbiota – Science Immunology

by mdehxaba | Sep 13, 2022 | News, Publications

Immune tolerance Branch Lead Dr Matt Hepworth along with co-authors Dr Hugo Penny and Dr Rita Domingues have been published in the September 2022 issue of the prestigious Science Immunology journal with their study investigating how feeding cues and circadian rhythms...

Unpacking the Immune System – Dr Peter Arkwright appears on the EMJ Podcast

Unpacking the Immune System – Dr Peter Arkwright appears on the EMJ Podcast

by mdehxaba | Aug 31, 2022 | Media Coverage, News

Our Life course Branch Lead Dr Peter Arkwright appeared recently on the EMJ Podcast for Healthcare Professionals and was interviewed by their Editor Evgenia Koutsouki. They discussed; Dr Arkwright’s fascinating career - including the defining moment of his practice so...

Why we should give a monkey’s about the names we give diseases  – Prof Dan Davis in The Sunday Times

Why we should give a monkey’s about the names we give diseases – Prof Dan Davis in The Sunday Times

by mdehxaba | Aug 31, 2022 | Dan Davis, Media Coverage, News

Prof Dan Davis has written in The Sunday Times about the recent controversy surrounding the 'Monkeypox' virus, with the WHO finding the name stigmatising, and the importance of considering the broader impact when naming diseases/conditions. Dan traces the history of...

Immunology & Cell Biology Interview with Prof Judi Allen –  Immunology at Manchester

Immunology & Cell Biology Interview with Prof Judi Allen – Immunology at Manchester

by mdehxaba | Aug 25, 2022 | Judi Allen, News

Our Cellular Immunology Branch Lead Prof Judi Allen has been interviewed by Prof Adrian Liston for the Immunology & Cell Biology Journal to discuss what makes Immunology at Manchester such an exciting prospect for researchers/students Prof Judi Allen also...

The big successes and failures of the COVID response so far

The big successes and failures of the COVID response so far

by mdehxaba | Mar 14, 2022 | COVID-19, Media Coverage, News, Sheena Cruickshank

Prof Sheena Cruickshank, along with three other health experts, has written in The Conversation about the response to COVID thus far - what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on....

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