From 7th-10th July, the MRC Toxicology Unit hosted the annual Integrative Toxicology Training Partnership (ITTP) Summer School. We had a fantastic week with excellent talks and posters from students, expert lectures and workshops from leaders in the field, insightful careers advice and great networking opportunities. The...

During June, the MRC Toxicology Unit, Department of Biochemistry , Department of Pharmacology , and the Gurdon Institute joined together for Pride Month with a series of events to support LGBTQIA+ staff and students. This is part of a new a new phase of collaboration among the Departments on Tennis Court road to encourage...

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...

Yesterday at the British Toxicology Society Congress, our Unit Director Professor Anne Willis delivered the John Barnes Prize lecture, focusing on mechanistic toxicology to improve human health. This award was established in memory of Dr John Barnes, who was the Director from the establishment of MRC Toxicology Unit in...

Researchers at the MRC Toxicology Unit have identified that the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole shows similar gastrointestinal side effects in fruit flies as in humans. For the first time they linked the mitochondria damaging effects of aripiprazole to death of the cells lining the intestine. Feeding the flies with an...

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...

Our Unit Director Prof Anne Willis has been awarded the prestigious John Barnes Prize Award from the British Toxicology Society . Prof Willis leads a research group investigating the role of post-transcriptional control in response to toxic injury with a focus on RNA-binding proteins, regulatory RNA motifs and tRNAs and...

Earlier this month, all Unit colleagues came together to celebrate our science and achievements over the last year. This year we had talks from each of our Group Leaders who shared overviews of the direction of their group's work, as well as a handful of talks from postdoctoral researchers and PhD students about their...

Earlier this week, the Unit came together to share some of the latest research updates from all of our lab groups and facilities, as well as celebrating some of our research adjacent successes from 2023. This year we launched the MRC Toxicology Unit Research Lecture Award. This is to recognise the contribution of a...

The MRC Integrative Toxicology Training Partnership (ITTP) is a national PhD training programme for capacity building in Toxicology and related disciplines. The safe development of new drugs, materials, chemicals and consumer products along with the assessment of risk from environmental exposure requires the integration of...