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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
To mark International Day of Immunology on the 29th of April Becker experts Professor Tracy Hussell, Professor Sheena Cruickshank and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Pedro Papotto took part in a lively 'Ask Me Anything' with Reddit users on all things immunology....
A study by Dr Adam Hurlstone and colleagues from the Lydia Becker Institute addressing how to improve the effectiveness of a class of cancer therapy called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has been published in the September issue of the prestigious journal Nature...
Immuno-matrix Branch Lead Professor Judi Allen spoke with presenter Lukwesa Burak at the BBC World Service about an 8cm worm found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. Professor Allen explains how a worm normally found on the skin of a python made its way to the...
As part of Independent SAGE's new 'Myth Busters' series our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank tackles the myth there's no point getting vaccinated if it doesn't stop you from getting infected.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn1D1OC_qkKeep...
