On Monday 8 December, the Cancer, Immunology, Matrix (CIM) Connect event brought researchers and clinicians from across Manchester together for an evening of rapid-fire talks, shared insights, and lively discussion focused on tumour–microenvironment...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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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...
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...
