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Dr Irina Mohorianu, Head of Bioinformatics/Scientific Computing at the CSCI, has been awarded a Turing Fellowship in Computer Science (Machine Learning and Bioinformatics).Irina’s background in Computer Science was streamlined after she finished her BSc (hons), towards Applied Data Science (Machine Learning and Bioinformatics). During her PhD she s…

Dr Fotios Sampaziotis joins our research team as a new Principal Investigator. His research looks to develop bioengineered spare organ parts which could help repair and regenerate damaged organs. Fotios Sampaziotis will lead his research for the next four years with support from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme. Future Leaders Fellowships …

Research involving significant input from CSCI scientists found that within the space of a few weeks, numerous blood and immune cell types emerge from developing bone marrow, including key white blood cells that protect against bacteria.The first comprehensive analysis of how the blood and immune systems develop in prenatal bone marrow has been con…

Scientists studying the condition multiple sclerosis (MS) have identified that a single gene, when manipulated, can make older brain stem cells behave like younger, more efficient cells.The discovery could lead to new treatments that can repair myelin – the protective coating around nerves, which is damaged in people with MS. The study, published i…

Many diseases have their origin in early human development, and today, 8 September 2021, two publications in Nature reveal how researchers from the Human Cell Atlas consortium are advancing understanding of this.The global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative, involving experts here at the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, is mapping every…

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…