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\n \n\n \n30 March 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Bethan Psaila and her team will investigate the potential of circulating blood platelets for early detection of a range of cancer types.
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\n \n\n \n29 March 2021
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\n \n\n \n24 March 2021
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\n \n\n \n18 March 2021
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\n \n\n \n3 February 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Noemi Roy has received funding in the 2020-21 round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund as one of seven projects for innovative work to engage the public with medical research.
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\n \n\n \n6 January 2021
\n \n \n \nWe are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Simmons has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit.
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\n \n\n \n25 November 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Drakesmith group finds that low blood serum iron levels can inhibit T-cell and B-cell immune responses to vaccines and infections.
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\n \n\n \n5 November 2020
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Alba Rodriguez Meira and Ioannis Akoumianakis for winning this year's RDM graduate prize.
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\n \n\n \n30 October 2020
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\n \n\n \n8 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA free game launched today allows players to role-play the deployment of a virtual vaccine to help to halt the global spread of a viral pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n10 September 2020
\n \n \n \nNew Nature paper reports on a genetic vulnerability in nearly 10% of breast cancer tumours, which could be targeted to selectively kill cancer cells.
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\n \n\n \n4 September 2020
\n \n \n \nNew Nature Immunology paper finds strong T cell responses in recovered COVID-19 patients
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\n \n\n \n10 July 2020
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to our researchers.
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\n \n\n \n12 June 2020
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\n \n\n \n9 June 2020
\n \n \n \nStudy co-led by MRC HIU/MRC WIMM's Professor Graham Ogg.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2020
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\n \n\n \n28 April 2020
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\n \n\n \n25 March 2020
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\n \n\n \n9 March 2020
\n \n \n \nStudy co-led by Professor KJ Patel uncovers new mechanism for DNA repair that may help protect DNA from cancer-causing rearrangements
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\n \n\n \n4 March 2020
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Professor KJ Patel has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford.
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