Niall Buckley recently attended this year's Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Toxicity in New Hampshire thanks to a travel grant from the EUROTOX Congress. Niall, a postdoc in the MacFarlane lab and AstraZeneca Hepatic Safety Team, presented his work on how CDK9 inhibitors can...

The UK Proteostasis Network, launched by The Babraham Institute in 2024 with support from the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and the MRC Toxicology Unit has been awarded a £600,000 Network Grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This grant will support the...

It was announced today that Dr Kiran Patil, Principal Investigator at the MRC Toxicology Unit, has been awarded €150,000 from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop novel live biotherapeutics for boosting cancer therapy. In this ERC funded project, Kiran’s group will use their expertise in microbial co-evolution to...

It was announced today that Dr James Thaventhiran, principal investigator at the MRC Toxicology Unit and clinical immunologist has received the prestigious Lister Fellowship award with £300,000 research funding commencing in October. The Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine is dedicated to supporting scientists...

Eve Stalker, a PhD student in the Willis Lab, and Dr Miriam Cipullo, a Postdoctoral Fellow joint between AstraZeneca and the MacFarlane Lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit were awarded prizes at the joint BTS-BPS Meeting ‘Toxicology in a New Era of Pharmacology’. The one-day conference brought together experts across...

David O'Loughlin, PhD student in the MacFarlane lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit, has been awarded the 2024 Mary Amdur Student Award by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) at their Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. The prize, named in honour of a pioneer in air pollution toxicology who overcame gender, political and...

Yizhou Yu, a PhD student in the Martins lab, was the runner-up in the international Falling Walls Emerging Talents pitch finals this week. Falling Walls is an annual competition that challenges students and early-career professionals of all disciplines to pitch their innovative ideas to an audience, including a panel of...

Researchers from the MRC Toxicology Unit had a successful time at the BTS Annual Congress this week in Birmingham sharing their fascinating research. Congratulations to our prize winners: David O’Louglin who won the Best BTS Annual Congress Oral Presentation. Tiago Marques Pedro who won the Best UKAAT Poster Presentation...

Yizhou Yu, who is a PhD student in the Martins lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit, has been selected to attend this year’s 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. From 25th-30th June, Yu is one of 635 young scientists from 98 countries who will be able to meet each other and around 40 Nobel Laureates. Yizhou's research focuses on...

Unit researchers and collaborators in Glasgow have been awarded £2.1 million by Cancer Research UK to help solve the mystery of how exposure to asbestos can take decades to develop into mesothelioma. The disease most commonly starts in layers of tissue covering the lungs and usually following the inhalation of asbestos...