About Us
We are a large, multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating innovative basic biology with cutting edge clinical research. We have internationally renowned programmes in a range of areas including cardiovascular sciences, diabetes and endocrinology, immunology, haematology and pathology.
Read moreGene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
Professors Deborah Gill and Stephen Hyde, together with their UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium partners, have teamed up with Boehringer Ingelheim and Oxford Biomedica to develop gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.
Read more‘Family trees’ of AML treated with enasidenib mapped for the first time
The study led by MRC WIMM researchers as part of an international team aims to understand what happens when patients stop responding to treatment.
Read moreProf Vincenzo Cerundolo elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Many congratulations to the Director of our MRC Human Immunology Unit for this prestigious honour recognizing his pioneering work on T cell immunology.
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We are a large multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating innovative basic biology with cutting edge clinical research. We have internationally renowned programmes in a range of areas including cardiovascular sciences, diabetes and endocrinology, immunology, haematology and pathology.
Latest Publications
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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of a serum-free miniature erythroid differentiation system suitable for high-throughput screening and single-cell assays.
Mettananda S. et al, (2018), Exp Hematol, 60, 10 - 20
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Genome and epigenome engineering CRISPR toolkit for in vivo modulation of cis-regulatory interactions and gene expression in the chicken embryo.
Williams RM. et al, (2018), Development, 145
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MAIT cell clonal expansion and TCR repertoire shaping in human volunteers challenged with Salmonella Paratyphi A.
Howson LJ. et al, (2018), Nat Commun, 9
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In situ functional dissection of RNA cis-regulatory elements by multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering.
Wu Q. et al, (2017), Nat Commun, 8
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Single-cell analysis reveals the continuum of human lympho-myeloid progenitor cells.
Karamitros D. et al, (2018), Nat Immunol, 19, 85 - 97
What's new
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Congratulations to our new Professors
7 August 2018
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Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
6 August 2018
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Controlling infection essential to tackle global anaemia
2 August 2018