Celebrating Institute research and accomplishments at the 2025 Retreat & Symposium
1 July 2025
Last Thursday and Friday, the Institute held the CSCI Annual Retreat & Symposium on 26 and 27 June in Cambridge. This annual event brings together CSCI researchers, Affiliate Group Leaders, and our Stem Cells Interdisciplinary Research Centre members for a day and a half of talks, posters, Institute updates, and...
Professor Walid Khaled awarded ERC Advanced Grant for breast cancer research
18 June 2025
Yesterday the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of its latest Advanced Grant competition. CSCI’s Professor Walid Khaled was selected as one of 281 leading researchers across Europe to receive some of the 721 million euros in funding to pursue his breast cancer research. The ERC fund will provide €2.5...
11 June 2025
This past weekend, Professor Matthias Zilbauer of CSCI launched the new Cambridge Centre for Children’s Gut Health, welcoming over 100 children living with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Zilbauer, Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Cambridge and...
20 May 2025
Research out this week finds that a combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL), the most common cancer in childhood and one that can be particularly difficult to treat in older patients. In recent years, new treatments have...