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)...
Following the announcement that the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is being withdrawn Professor Sheena Cruickshank from the Lydia Becker Institute and Professor Christina Pagel from UCL have written a joint piece for the New Statesman about its development, ...
In the March issue of the British Society for Immunology's 'Immunology News' Eco-immunology is the cover story and the focus of an article by Eco-immunology and context-specific immunology Branch Lead Professor Kathryn Else and Dr Iris Mair introducing readers to this...
To mark British Science Week 2024 Manchester Museum hosted two days of activities on the 11th and 12th of March for over 500 students and visitors. The Becker was in attendance with stands covering two different themes - ridding viruses from the body and scary skin...
Lydia Becker Institute researcher Dr Juan Quinatana has been awarded a prestigious Springboard award by The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS).Juan is one of 54 ‘exceptional’ biomedical and health researchers who will benefit from the £6.6 million Springboard funding...
On Tuesday 12th March campaign group Ardwick Climate Action, with the support of The University of Manchester launched a new green walking route where local people can avoid the excessive pollution caused by motor vehicles.The scheme, close to Kale Street, will help...
On Friday 8th March an exciting science and musical project led by the University of Oxford and Royal Northern College of Music and funded by the Wellcome Trust was launched at the Manchester Science & Industry Museum with a Science Day for Coop Academy students...
