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ASHG honors excellence in research conducted by predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees (including genetic counseling trainees) through merit-based awards that recognize highly competitive abstracts submitted and presented at the ASHG Annual Meeting. These awards were renamed in 2012 to honor the late Dr. Charles Epstein, who was a past president of ASHG, former editor of AJHG, and winner of both the William Allan Award and the McKusick Leadership Award.
World Cancer Day 2024: Highlighting cancer research at the MRC WIMM
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM Research
4 February 2024
This World Cancer Day, we heard from four Group Leaders at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine about their work and how their groups are helping in the fight against cancer.
New study disentangles a long-standing link between inflammation and cancer progression
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS Publication Research
5 September 2023
New method links DNA accessibility with genetic changes leading to cancer genesis
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM Publication Research
4 May 2023
Akshay Shah awarded Academy of Medical Sciences Starter Grant
Awards Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
24 April 2023
Doug Higgs awarded the 2023 Genetics Society Medal
Awards Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
22 November 2022
The award recognises Professor Higgs' major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
Researchers make miniature ‘bone marrows in a dish’ to improve anti-cancer treatments
Department General MRC MHU NDCLS Publication Research
16 November 2022
2022 RDM Graduate Prize Winners
Awards Department General MRC HIU MRC MHU MRC TIDU MRC WIMM OCDEM
3 November 2022
This year's winners are Edward Jenkins, Antje Rottner, and Akshay Shah.
KJ Patel appointed new Chief Scientist of CRUK
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
12 October 2022
Alongside his new role at Cancer Research UK, Prof. Patel will continue as the Director of both the MRC Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine (MRC WIMM) and the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit (MRC MHU).
Wellcome Trust funding success for Jim Hughes and James Davies
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
9 September 2022
£3.6 million in funding awarded by the Wellcome Trust to combine cutting-edge 3D genome technologies with machine learning approaches to decipher the role of the non-coding genome in disease.
Congratulations to Thomas Milne and Ross Chapman on becoming full Professors
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
18 August 2022
Six RDM research groups secure LEAF Sustainability Awards
Department General IMD MRC HIU MRC MHU MRC TIDU MRC WIMM NDCLS
22 July 2022
The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) aims to support research groups to embed sustainability into their work.
Ewa Gogola receives Wellcome Early Career Award
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
21 July 2022
Dr Ewa Gogola from the Patel Group in the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit has been awarded funding by the Wellcome Trust for the project ‘DNA damage-induced hepatocyte polyploidisation- how it happens and what are its consequences?’
James Davies named as Lister Research Prize Fellow
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
23 June 2022
James Davies has been named as one of eight researchers selected for the 2022 Fellowship scheme.
Six new Associate Professor titles at RDM
Awards CVM Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
14 June 2022
Graham Collins, Betty Raman, Susie Shapiro, Christopher Toepfer, Stephen Twigg, and Adam Wilkinson have all been awarded Associate Professor titles
Two NHSBT research units launch at RDM
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
18 May 2022
The NIHR has awarded three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) to the University of Oxford, with two of them led by RDM researchers.
CRUK funding success for Ross Chapman and Sarah Gooding
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS Research
17 March 2022
Spin-out company Alethiomics launches
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
15 December 2021
The enterprise will focus on developing targeted therapies for a specific family of blood cancers.
Study reveals ‘stop-eating’ response to DNA damage
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS Publication Research
24 November 2021
A new study from the Patel Group sheds light on the mechanism by which DNA damage suppresses appetite, a finding with implications for understanding the appetite lowering side-effects of chemotherapy.
Study uncovers gene that doubles risk of death from COVID-19
COVID-19 research MRC MHU MRC WIMM
4 November 2021