Key Immune Cells Found to Protect the Gut During Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy (RT) is a vital treatment for many abdominal and pelvic cancers, but it can unintentionally harm healthy tissue — especially the intestines — leading to serious side effects that currently have limited treatment options. Although the immune system is...
Study unravels puzzle of how viruses can cause long-term lung damage
University of Manchester biologists have for the first time started to unpick the long-term biological changes associated with serious viral lung infections, such as flu and long-covid, in a study of mice. Previously, little was known about the drivers of...
Co-Creating a Healthier, Safer, and Greener Ardwick Wins 2025 Excellence in Health Creation Award
Congratulations to our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank and our collaborators at Ardwick Climate Action on winning the award for 'Best health creation approach to seeking and using community insight' at the 2025 Excellence in Health...
Nobel prize awarded for discovery of immune system’s ‘security guards’
In this piece originally published in The Conversation, Lydia Becker Institute Director Professor Tracy Hussell breaks down the science behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine. She explains how three scientists, Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow, and Fred Ramsdell,...
Profile: Dr Nicholas Scott
Dr Nicholas Scott is an Experimental Officer originally hailing from Melbourne, Australia, and now based at the Lydia Becker Institute here in Manchester. His research journey has taken him from type 1 diabetes studies in Melbourne and Birmingham to COVID-19 immune...
How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world
Vaccines have long been one of the most effective tools for protecting global health. But today, that trust is being tested.The Becker's Deputy Eco-immunology Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank and Professor Christina Pagel from University College London have a...
Profile: Charles Gyasi
Charles Gyasi is a PhD student from our Wellcome Trust Immunomatrix in Complex Disease PhD Programme based in the Grencis Lab. Hailing from Ghana, read all about Charles's exciting research journey, starting with early work on malaria and neglected tropical diseases...
New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
The environment is increasingly acknowledged to play a critical role in our risk of developing diseases, with 30,000 deaths attributed to air pollution alone in the UK each year. A new research centre based at The Universities of Manchester and Oxford will turn the...
Dr Matthew Sinton Named IUIS 2025 Rising Star
Dr Matthew Sinton from the Lydia Becker Institute at The University of Manchester has been named as one of the prestigious Rising Stars for IUIS 2025, an honour awarded by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS).Matthew's selection follows a rigorous...
Outreach at Great Moor Junior School Stockport
Becker PhD student Iashia Mulholland from our Wellcome Trust Immunomatrix in Complex Disease Programme recently attended a Careers Fair at her former school Great Moor Junior School based in Stockport.The event was aimed at children in Years 5 and 6. Iashia spoke with...
