Professors Göttgens and Laurenti to receive a new Wellcome Discovery Award
27 November 2024
The Wellcome Trust has recently announced that Professor Bertie Göttgens and Professor Elisa Laurenti have been granted a £3.75M Wellcome Discovery Award for their research, ‘ Haematopoiesis across Scales, Species and Time: a Foundational Approach to Study Stem Cell Biology and Disease.’ Wellcome Discovery Awards provide...
Human Cell Atlas makes major strides in mapping human body
21 November 2024
This week marks a milestone for the Human Cell Atlas project, a consortium of researchers co-led by CSCI's Professor Sarah Teichmann and Dr Aviv Regev of Genentech. A collection of 13 papers in Nature have been published this week revealing data from embryonic, fetal and paediatric organs, as well as computational tools...
Dr Maria Alcolea awarded ERC Synergy Grant
7 November 2024
It was announced this week that Dr Maria Alcolea is one of 57 new awardees for the European Research Council Synergy Grants. These grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, and are designed to foster collaboration between researchers to pursue new and ground-breaking research. Dr Alcolea...
CSCI's Professor David Rowitch elected to US National Academy of Medicine
30 October 2024
Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in the USA. “It is a great honour to have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine,” said Professor Rowitch. Election to the Academy is considered one of...