One important feature of certain types of neurodegenerative disease is the intracellular accumulation of certain misfolded, aggregated proteins which are toxic to nerve cells. Preventing the buildup...
New CIMR research led by Dr Joseph Chambers, PhD student Nikita Zubkov and Prof. Stefan Marciniak has revealed a new mechanism for certain types of rare genetic disease. Their new publication in...
The role of eIF6 in ribosome assembly and recycling
Protein synthesis is a cyclical process in which ribosome components assemble to translate mRNA into protein, disassemble upon completion and are recycled back into further rounds of assembly. This...
Collaboration with the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit reveals a key step in mitochondrial ribosome assembly
A collaborative study between the groups of Drs Michal Minczuk, Alex Whitworth at the MBU and Alan Warren at the CIMR, published in Nature Communications, reports the identification of a critical...
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) recognise and destroy cells which are infected with viruses or are cancerous. This latter property puts them at the heart of new immunotherapies transforming cancer...
Congratulations to CIMR Director Prof. Julian Rayner who was elected to membership of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), a body dedicated to excellence in European life sciences. The...
We were very pleased to hold our first in-person CIMR Annual Research since 2019. The busy programme included talks from early-career researchers, poster presentations and an interactive session on...
Election of CIMR researcher to prestigious academy
9 June 2022
Congratulations to CIMR's Prof. David Rubinsztein for his recent election as a member of Academia Europaea. Invited members of this pan-European Academy cover the natural sciences, the humanities and...
