UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to Dr Madhvi Menon
Dr Madhvi Menon, Deputy Branch Lead for Cellular Immunology at the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation has been awarded a prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship by UK Research and Innovation to continue her research on studying the role B cells play...
Wellcome Trust awards funding to explore how innate immune cells determine intestinal health and disease
Dr Matt Hepworth, Branch Lead for Immune Tolerance at The University of Manchester’s Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, has been awarded a £2.8 million, 8-year Career Development Award (CDA) from the Wellcome Trust to conduct groundbreaking...
Dean’s Prize Fellowship Awarded To Dr Pedro Papotto
Dr Pedro Papotto, a Research Fellow from the Allen Lab, has been awarded a distinguished FBMH Dean's Prize Fellowship for his work on understanding how immune responses to infections are regulated at the organismal level and the role of unconventional T cells in...
Profile: Nabina Pun
For our latest Becker Profile we spoke to Nabina Pun, a final-year CRUK-funded PhD student based in the Dyer Lab. Nabina shares her journey from Berkshire to the labs of Manchester, delving into her passion for immunology and her groundbreaking research on how...
Profile: Dr Grace Mallett
Meet Dr Grace Mallett, a Postdoc in the MacDonald Lab. Here Grace discusses her time as a PhD student at Newcastle University looking at the role innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) play in the tumour microenvironment and her recent research as a Postdoc here at the...
New Substack by Professor Sheena Cruickshank
Professor Sheena Cruickshank has set up a new Substack that will aim to put new research into context and make it more accessible for lay audiences. The research covered will be largely immunology based and for her first entry Sheena has written a piece on the latest...
BBSRC Awards Grant for Wild House Mouse Study
Eco-immunology and Context-specific Immunology Branch Lead Professor Kathryn Else along with Dr Rowan Bancroft at the University of Manchester and co-applicants Professor Amy Pedersen and Dr Iris Mair at the University of Edinburgh have been funded by the BBSRC to...
Becker PI/Postdoc vs PhD student Charity Football Match
On Friday the 6th of October Lydia Becker Institute PIs and Postdocs squared off against PhD students in a football match to raise funds for Asthma + Lung UK. It was an intense game of football, with our PIs/Postdocs showing they had a thing or two to teach the PhD...
The STEM Village – Immunology Seminar Series 2023
As part of The STEM Village's Immunology Seminar Series Dr Luke Roberts and Dr Juan Quintana from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation will be taking part and giving fascinating talks on their areas of research:27th November - 4.00 pm (UK Time)Dr...
Ardwick Climate Action – Climate Event 2023
The Becker participated in Ardwick Climate Action's Community Bulb Planting and Climate Action Event, held in Ardwick on the 1st of October. At the Becker stand attendees could test their breathing via our Lung Station, play Splat the Virus! and visualise air...