The Becker's Immuno-matrix Branch Lead Professor Judi Allen has been elected as a Fellow of the highly prestigious Royal Society.Judi joins eighty researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world who have been elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal...
Wired Magazine recently interviewed Dr Elizabeth Mann and Dr Laurence Pearmain about their paper published in the European Respiratory Journal on Long Covid and the link between abnormal immune cells known as monocytes and lung injury - resulting in long-lasting and...
On 9th June 2023 the ‘Eco-immunology and context-specific Immunology’ branch of the Lydia Becker Institute, joint with the Manchester Environmental Research Institute and Healthy Futures within Sustainable Futures is holding a one day symposium entitled “OneHealth and...
In order to mark International Day of Immunology 2023 experts from the Lydia Becker Institute will be taking part in a Reddit 'As Me Anything' on Saturday 29th April at 3pm GMT.Our Director Professor Tracy Hussell, Eco-immunology Deputy Lead Professor Sheena...
As part of the International Day of Immunology 2023 campaign our Director Professor Tracy Hussell spoke to the European Federation of Immunological Sciences to explain how vaccines work and their impact on public health.Vaccines work because they mimic the pathogen...
We're thrilled that our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank has won the Public Engagement Award at the inaugural British Society for Immunology (BSI) Immunology Awards ceremony held on April 20th at the Royal College of Physicians in London....
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Lydia Becker Institute at the University of Manchester have studied how the immune system responds to a parasitic filarial nematode worm that infects the pleural cavity, shedding light on how the immune system controls...
Three researchers from the Lydia Becker Institute have been named as finalists in the inaugural BSI Immunology Awards 2023. Eco-immunology Deputy Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank has been named a finalist for the BSI Public Engagement Award and Dr Madhvi Menon and Dr...
We are a teeming mass of interconnected microbes and the impact of this microscopic universe on our health, our minds, even our moods, is profound. Professor Sheena Cruickshank joined an expert panel at Wellcome’s Reading Room in London as part of the BBC World...
Becker Postdoc Dr Helen Parker from the Greenhalgh Lab and her daughter Jessica took part in the Glow Manchester Walk on the 18th of March at Media City to help raise funds for the Alzheimer's Society and help improve the many lives affected by dementia. The 5km walk...
