Mrc Weatherall Institute Of Molecular Medicine

🚨 PhD studentship opportunity 🚨
Funded opportunity (UK/EU) for a student with a quantitative background (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science), interested in applying their skills to solve biomedical problems. More info on the link below ⬇️

📢 Only two weeks left for our participation in this year's #MRCFestival! We will be taking our research on cancer immunotherapy to 3 locations: 🗓️20th June- Orchard Centre Didcot 🗓️22nd June- The Oracle 🗓️23rd June- Westgate Oxford

Good morning testing out cancer immunotherapy activities with our admin staff. Looking forward to taking them to shopping centres later in the month, part of #MRCFestival! Great work by Martyna, Alba, Mafalda, Margarida, Henry, Grigore, Anna and Chelsea! 💪

Good luck to Ryan Beveridge, from our Virus Screening Facility, who is participating in this year's MRC Festival 'I'm a scientist, get me out of here'! He will be answering questions from school students around the UK on what it is like to be a researcher 👨‍🔬

This is what 500+ ping pong balls look like! What do they have to do with cancer immunotherapy? You will have to wait for this year’s MRC Festival to find out...

Job alert! 🚨
Exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge single cell genomics, robotics and novel assay development in our single cell facility. Apply until the 6th of June!

New on our blog- postdoc Caitlin Naylor (Drakesmith group) shares her experience as a researcher at MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, from keeping an eye out for snakes and hyenas to gazing at the milky way by the campfire (not forgetting unique and important research)! 🧬🐍🌌

Our PhD student Alba Rodriguez-Meira is participating in the upcoming Blenheim Triathlon, raising funds for Bloodwise. 🏊‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ You can support her on the link below ⬇️

Many congratulations to Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, who was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship to continue her research on neural crest development! 🥳

Congratulations to Dr Onima Chowdhury, awarded an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership grant to explore the application of single cell genomics to the diagnosis of Myelodysplastic syndromes!

Today is World Ovarian Cancer Day, so a shout out to Ovarian Cancer Action, who generously fund the research of the Ahmed group. We are proud to be the final stop in their London to Oxford 100km bike ride this Sunday! 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Congratulations to Prof Alison Simmons from MRC HIU, who has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences for her work on innate immunity and inflammatory bowel disease!

🎥 What is it like to do a PhD in biomedical research? David Grainger, a graduate student in the Porcher lab, talks about his research on how blood stem cells are made in this video by University of Oxford

🎥 Prof Graham Ogg from MRC HIU talks about his research on skin diseases, from understanding the molecular basis of skin inflammation to ongoing clinical trials in Oxford.
Click on the link to watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBP1gP6D xY