A collaboration between the Drakesmith and Higgs Groups at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine has identified an ancient connection between metabolic and transcriptional control of erythropoiesis.
Associate Professor Adam Wilkinson has received the 2025 Janet Rowley Award from the International Society for Experimental Haematology for his outstanding contributions in the field of hematopoietic stem cell biology.
Following the RDM\u2019s annual call for researchers to apply for Principal Investigator (PI) status, we are delighted to announce the designation of five new PIs for 2025.
For International Women's Day on 8th March 2025, women from the MRC WIMM reflect on why this day is so important, the barriers and biases women can face in their careers, and which women have inspired them.
Congratulations to Dr Jeries Abu-Hanna who has been selected as one of the five winning recipients for the Professor Heimburger Award 2025 in the field of inherited haemophilia.
Two new research papers, published in Nature Genetics, jointly led by RDM\u2019s Professor Hugh Watkins, have further advanced our understanding of the genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
The Therapy Acceleration Lab (TAL) at the MRC WIMM was recently accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to the ISO 17025:2017 Standard as a testing laboratory, No. 28562.
An inhalable medicine with the potential to improve lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis, irrespective of their mutation type, is being tested in human trials in the UK and Europe.
Congratulations to Dr Roshan Xavier who has won a major international career award at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for his DPhil research into a common form of heart failure called HFpEF.
Race Against Dementia, in partnership with Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK have awarded just over \u00a3340k to support research into understanding why some people develop dementia after suffering a stroke.
Alison Kay and Anne Goriely, together with Minna Jeffery (St. Anne\u2019s College) and Lisa Hinton (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences), have won an award from the University of Oxford\u2019s PCER Fund for a project called \u201cMaking it personal\u201d, which will use theatre to explore public perception of a new form of genetic testing.
Congratulations to Mohanad Alkhodari, a DPhil student in RDM\u2019s Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF), who was selected by Forbes Magazine in the Middle East for their 30 under 30 list for 2024.
Researchers in RDM\u2019s Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) will collaborate with the University of Pennsylvania on a new trial to understand the potential benefits of postpartum blood pressure monitoring in the US healthcare system.
RDM researchers have outlined the potential benefits and limitations of new spatial transcriptomic technologies for mapping the bone marrow in patients with blood cancer.
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