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With recent discussion in the press on the links between inflammation and Alzheimer’s Dr Joanne Konkel from the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation discusses the links between Gum Inflammation and Alzheimers. Periodontitis is the most common chronic...

The Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation attended the Immuno-Oncology One Manchester conference on the 12th of February 2019 at the Alderley Park Conference Centre. Institute Director, Professor Tracy Hussell introduced the Lydia Becker Institute and...

Over 100 attendees, including many members of the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, packed out the CTF on 8th January to discuss The Tumour Microenvironment. It was the first in a series of “Cells in Complex Environments” forums hosted by the...

We recently welcomed Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa from The Francis Crick Institute for the second in an ongoing series of “Inflammatory Remarks” seminars, sponsored by the British Society of Immunology (BSI) and Lydia Becker Institute for Immunology and Inflammation....

A short film the School of Biological Sciences produced with ITN for a Royal Society of Biology event features our immunology science and researchers. For more information on the research we undertake please visit our immunology website. Related...

The Becker Institute is keen to promote an understanding of the immune system and our passion for immunology to as many people as possible. Immunology is vital to the understanding of most medical conditions in modern medicine.  As such the Lydia Becker Institute has...

Professor Daniel Davis gave a talk at the recent launch of The Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation held at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. Professor Davis’ presentation of The Beautiful Cure was an enlightening tour through the...