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Prestigious honour for CIMR’s Director

7 July 2022

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 award reflects Julian’s achievements in malaria research and his leadership across research and public engagement. Prof...

2022 CIMR Research Retreat

24 June 2022

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 new computational tools for structural biology.

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 letters

Inspiring Scientists at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (ISAC)

24 February 2022

Last week we were pleased to host our first ever ISAC programme in partnership with St Catharine’s College. Twelve students from Cambridgeshire 6th Form state schools took part in interactive seminars and research projects over three days at the CIMR. The final day was spent at St Catharine’s College, where the ISAC...

A new home for some old equipment to inspire future researchers

7 February 2022

CIMR’s Head of Flow Cytometry, Dr Reiner Schulte recently visited Moulton School and Science College in Northampton to donate and demonstrate an old CIMR flow cytometer in the school lab. The initiative was supported by a Royal Society Partnership Grant, a scheme to fund investigative STEM projects at schools in...

Recognition for highly-cited CIMR researcher

18 November 2021

Professor David Rubinsztein FRS has been highlighted by Clarivate as a ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ in 2021. This is due to his highly-cited papers which rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Clarivate’s Web of Science database.

Postdoc Appreciation Week 2021

20 September 2021

With over 70 postdocs at CIMR, we support Postdoc Appreciation Week (September 20th – 24th) and want to acknowledge the great work postdocs do as part of the bedrock of the global science effort – and especially given all the disruption being caused by the pandemic.

CIMR involvement in a new widening participation initiative for students

16 July 2021

Experience Postgrad Life Sciences is a residential summer internship programme at Cambridge for undergraduate students of biological / biomedical science subjects who may not otherwise be able to gain experience of postgraduate research. This is part of a wider move at the University encourage more students from...

A new rare disease network

30 June 2021

Professor Stefan Marciniak is a research group leader at CIMR and an honorary consultant respiratory physician at both Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Papworth. He will co-lead the UK’s first Familial Pneumothorax Rare Disease Collaborative Network, together with Professor Kevin Blyth (Queen...

CIMR researcher to lead a new research consortium tackling chronic pain

1 June 2021

Four multidisciplinary research consortia have recently been funded by UKRI, Versus Arthritis and Eli Lily to investigate chronic pain. The ADVANTAGE Consortium is led by CIMR’s Prof. Geoff Woods and includes other Cambridge colleagues and co-investigators from London and Edinburgh. The research will focus on extremes of...