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Professor David Rowitch is a principal investigator at the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and academic lead at the Cambridge Children's Hospital.In the following article, which first appeared in the CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine), Professor Rowitch discusses how the new hospital and its on-site research centres are set to transform t…

We are delighted to announce the news that our affliate Principal Investigator, Anne Ferguson-Smith is the 2021 Buchanan Medalist.Professor Ferguson-Smith is one of twelve former and current Cambridge researchers, including six women, to be recognised in 2021 for their exceptional research and outstanding contributions to science. She is also the c…

Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship of over 1400 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas.  Professor Sarah Franklin has been chosen as one of the new 84 academics elected Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her outstanding …

This award recognises our efforts to help reduce the environmental impact within our world-leading research facilities at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.Our Green Impact team here at the Centre were very pleased to be recipients of the Silver Award in the Green Impact Awards 2021. Since achieving a bronze award in their first year, the team ha…

The heart is one of the major organs damaged by infection with SARS-CoV-2, particularly the heart cells, or ‘cardiomyocytes’, which contract and circulate blood. It is also thought that damage to heart cells may contribute to the symptoms of long COVID. The study was led by our very own postdoctoral researcher, Maria Colzaniin Dr Sanjay Sinha'sgrou…

We have recently awarded our annual prizes for public engagement, and our first prizes recognising research culture and integrity.The success of our science is contingent both on what we produce and how we produce it. Every year, we award prizes to individuals or teams at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute who excel in their work engaging with patie…

Based at the Hendrich Lab at the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Seun shares her experience of being a young black woman who ‘made it to Cambridge'.Seun Ogundele engages her audience through her series of #blackgirlinscience YouTube videos, Instagram posts and podcasts, aiming to share her knowlege and inspire those traditionally unde…

In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers have discovered how tumour cells can function to outcompete their neighbours and colonise the intestinal epithelium.The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and Wellcome, showed that, by inducing local alterations in the surrounding tissue, mutant epithelial cells create an unfavourable env…

New insights into how our bodies come into being from a single cell have been generated by researchers at the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute working with collaborators at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and across the University of Cambridge.It is the first study of its kind to describe fetal development in humans by retracing how and w…

Principal Investigators Professor Brian Huntly and Professor Ben Simons are among 50 prominent biomedical and health scientists who have joined the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.The Academy of Medical Sciences is an independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science. Its elected Fellows are the UK’s leading med…

Group Leaders Professor David Rowitch and Professor Ben Simons, and Affiliate Principal Investigator Dr Peter Campbell, are among over 60 outstanding scientists from across the globe who have joined the Royal Society as Fellows and Foreign Members.The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and…

Cambridge Stem Cell Institute researchers and collaborators at the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS) are participating in a €2 million project led by Professor Clare Blackburn at the University of Edinburgh to establish the European Consortium for Communicating Gene and Cell Therapy Information (EuroGCT).Gene therapy is an exciting a…

The largest study of its type in the UK has identified differences in the immune response to COVID-19 between asymptomatic people and those suffering more severely with the virus.Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute are part of a team working across the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University, University…

Researchers may have found the earliest changes that occur in seemingly healthy breast tissue long before any tumours appear, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.The study, funded by Cancer Research UK, showed that before becoming cancerous, breast cells with the BRCA1 gene mutation undergo changes similar to those normally …

The MS Society has awarded £1.85million of new funding for its research ‘Centre of Excellence’ in Cambridge, as part of their fight to stop multiple sclerosis (MS).The major new grant will allow Cambridge scientists to find new treatments, faster, for tens of thousands of people living with progressive forms of MS in the UK, who currently have noth…