Cover new research from the University, in partnership with the University of Oxford and the University of the West Indies, which has shown that hospitalised shift workers are more likely to have caught COVID-19.27/04/2021Outlet: Guardian and various other outlets....
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New Kennedy Trust MB PhD programme in inflammation research
The Faculty has secured support from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research to establish an innovative new MB PhD programme in inflammation research. The award is for four medical students per year, over the next five years, to undertake a PhD studying...
Cure found for rare form of inflammatory bowel disease
A rare genetic condition which causes inflammatory bowel disease can be successfully treated by bone marrow transplant, according to University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust researchers. The disease, called G6PC3 deficiency, affects...
Protein by which common skin bacteria trigger eczema identified
A decade-long study has identified the factor produced by a common species of skin bacteria that triggers eczema, in a breakthrough of our understanding of the condition. The discovery of a missing link by an international team led by University of Manchester...
New Manchester study reveals key immune features of COVID-19
The Coronavirus Immune Response and Clinical Outcome (CIRCO) consortium, based at The University of Manchester, has published their first paper detailing unappreciated immune characteristics induced following COVID-19 infection. Published today in Science Immunology...
Immunologists unite to fight COVID-19
Immunologists in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at the University of Manchester are a significant partner in the recently announced UK-Coronavirus Immune Consortium. Professor Hussell, who is leading one of the five main themes said “The...
Coronavirus drug: how interferon can be traced back to a meeting of minds in 1956.
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The CIRCO consortium is delivering results
The Coronavirus Immune Reponse and Clinical Outcome (CIRCO) consortium draws together immunological expertise in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation with key clinicians at Wythenshawe, Salford Royal and North Manchester hospitals and the...
A new approach to tackle lung disease
The upper human airways are lined with a mucociliary epithelium, where mucus traps particles and pathogens (e.g. bacteria) and cilia beat to generate flow to move the mucus (and trapped material) away from the lungs. Improving our understanding of this process will...
April Press Releases 2020
5 April 2020 Top scientists racing to pinpoint who will be hit hardest by coronovirus. Outlet: Manchester Evening News5 April 2020 Q and A on COVID-19/coronavirus, answering questions from the public, featured 5 experts. Tracy Hussell, Lizzie Mann, Madhvi Menon,...