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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...

Inspiring Scientists at CIMR-MBU 2025 - Applications open!

21 October 2024

We're excited to launch this year's ISAC-M programme in collaboration with the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. This widening participation/ work experience programme is a great way for young people in year 12 who are interested in careers in biomedical science or medicine to get a real sense of life in a research lab and...

Welcome to our new students!

21 October 2024

CIMR is delighted to welcome our new graduate students this term. As well as PHD and MPhil students we have our first cohort studying for our new Masters course, Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease . We're excited to see so many new faces in building and can't wait to see how their research and careers develop.

Outback Outreach!

19 August 2024

Members of the Deane lab have taken outreach to new heights - or should that be distances! – by joining in with a school science week in Australia. The team made a fun video for the children at St Canice's Primary School, in rural NSW, explaining how we do science in the lab. The film was expertly introduced to the class...