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Jennifer Palmer wins UK Dementia Research Institute PhD prize

11 December 2025

Many congratulations to PhD student Jennifer Palmer who has been awarded the UK Dementia Research Institute PhD prize. This award aims to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of doctoral researchers whose work has significantly advanced the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of dementia and...

Big Biology Day 2025

27 October 2025

We had a fantastic day recently at the Big Biology Day. This annual family-focused event is held at Hills Road Sixth Form College and attracts around 2000 people each year. Our researchers had a great time explaining cell biology and chatting about their research. Thanks to all of them for giving up their time at the...

Jennifer Dickens receives British Thoracic Society/ Asthma+Lung UK Lecture award

25 September 2025

We’re delighted that Dr Jennifer Dickens has been awarded the 2025 British Thoracic Society/ Asthma+Lung UK Lecture award which is awarded to recognise the achievements of established respiratory researchers in the UK. Her lecture ‘Familial ILD: clinical challenges and insight into mechanism of disease in pulmonary...

Brain Medicine interview with Prof. David Rubinsztein

9 September 2025

Prof Rubinsztein recently gave an interview to the Genomic Press journal Brain Medicine. As well as exploring his work, this wide-ranging interview also covers Prof Rubinsztein's love of music, literary and real-life heroes, and fantasy dinner party guest. You can read the interview in full here: https://doi.org/10.61373/...

Reaching Research 2025

12 August 2025

Now in its third year, we once again ran the on-line event Reaching Research at the end of July. Organised by two of our PhD students, Ellie Fox and Holly Monkhouse, this accessible widening participation event is aimed at sixth form students who are considering careers in medicine and biomedical sciences. Around 200...

Aspiring Scientists Training Programme

15 July 2025

We had a great week last week with a group of year 12 students attending the Gurdon Institute's ASTP programme . This is a fantastic work experience and widening participation programme which gives students the opportunity to spend a week in the lab experiencing life as a researcher and carrying out their own experiments...

CIMR appoints Dr Jennifer Dickens as a Prinicipal Investigator

27 May 2025

CIMR is delighted to announce the appointment of a new PI, Dr Jennifer Dickens. Jenny is an active clinician, balancing her research work on the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis with clinical work as a respiratory physician at Royal Papworth Hospital. While working in Prof. Stefan Marciniak’s lab on an MRC...

Risk of punctured lung from a faulty gene implicated in rare lung disease is almost 100 times higher than previous estimate

17 April 2025

New research from Prof Stefan Marciniak and colleagues has shown that as many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene which significantly increases their risk of suffering a punctured lung. The gene, FLCN, is linked to Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS), symptoms of which include benign skin tumours, lung cysts...

Cambridge Festival 2025

24 March 2025

We had a great day at Cambridge Festival's Biomedical Campus family day held at Cambridge Academy for Science & Technology. There were a record number of visitors who came to meet researchers, charity & healthcare workers and volunteers, and find out more about the work that goes on across the campus. Our fantastic...

Inspiring Scientists at CIMR-MBU 2025

4 March 2025

During February half term we welcomed the latest cohort of sixth-form students to our Inspiring Scientists programme (ISAC/M) , run in collaboration with the MRC MBU and St Catharine’s College . This is a widening participation programme, aimed at giving students who would otherwise have difficulty accessing such...