World Cancer Day 2024: Highlighting cancer research at the MRC WIMM
4 February 2024
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM Research
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.
Doug Higgs awarded the 2023 Genetics Society Medal
22 November 2022
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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.
2022 RDM Graduate Prize Winners
3 November 2022
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This year's winners are Edward Jenkins, Antje Rottner, and Akshay Shah.
KJ Patel appointed new Chief Scientist of CRUK
12 October 2022
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
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
9 September 2022
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
£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.
Six RDM research groups secure LEAF Sustainability Awards
22 July 2022
Department General IMD MRC HIU MRC MHU MRC TIDU MRC WIMM NDCLS
The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) aims to support research groups to embed sustainability into their work.
Ewa Gogola receives Wellcome Early Career Award
21 July 2022
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
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
23 June 2022
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James Davies has been named as one of eight researchers selected for the 2022 Fellowship scheme.
Six new Associate Professor titles at RDM
14 June 2022
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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
18 May 2022
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
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.
Spin-out company Alethiomics launches
15 December 2021
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
The enterprise will focus on developing targeted therapies for a specific family of blood cancers.
Study reveals ‘stop-eating’ response to DNA damage
24 November 2021
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS Publication Research
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.