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\n \n\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 \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 \n \n \nWe are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Simmons has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit.
\n \n\n\n \n 25 November 2020\n \n
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\n \n\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 \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 \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.
\n \n\n\n \n 10 September 2020\n \n
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\n \n\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 \n \n \nNew Nature Immunology paper finds strong T cell responses in recovered COVID-19 patients
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to our researchers.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nStudy co-led by MRC HIU/MRC WIMM's Professor Graham Ogg.
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\n \n\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 \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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