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...
The Becker's Eco-immunology branch, in collaboration with Sustainable Futures, MERI and The University of Edinburgh, has produced a journal article for Discovery Immunology on the urgent need for an 'EcoHealth' approach to help understand the challenges posed by...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)...
