Each year MRC Toxicology Unit group leaders, research staff, students and support staff take part in our annual Science Day to celebrate science and achievements over the past year. This year we were based in the beautiful Møller Institute overlooking Churchill College grounds. Eric-Miska.jpg After excellent breakfast...

Researchers from the Unit brought activities about Nucleic Acid Therapies to the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form College on 11th October. Cambridge Biologists have been running the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form since 2012 and its now one of the largest events of its kind in the UK! This event combines...

The Chariots of Fire race is a relay race for charity that takes a scenic route through some of Cambridge's best known colleges. This year MRC Toxicology Unit members along with those from the Pharmacology Department and Gurdon Institute entered two teams, the Nucleostrides and Toxicology RuNAs. They joined around 300...

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...