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Professor Colin Hughes elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

17 December 2013

10 May 2012 Colin Hughes, Professor of Microbiology, Deputy Head of the Pathology Department and Head of its Division of Microbiology and Parasitology, has been elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru). Colin Hughes ScD FLSW is Professor of Microbiology in the University of Cambridge...

Prof Tony Kouzarides elected Fellow of the Royal Society

17 December 2013

May 2012 Congratulations to Prof Tony Kouzarides of the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Pathology who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Tony Kouzarides is world leader in the field of chromatin modification and its roles in transcriptional control and cancer. His finding in 1996 that the...

Cambridge children's doctor scoops prestigious prize

17 December 2013

09 April 2012 Cambridge children's doctor scoops prestigious prize for cancer research to improve patient outcomes. A children's doctor from Cambridge has been selected for a prestigious award after four years of dedicated research into a rare cancer type affecting children. Dr Matthew Murray has been chosen as the SPARKS...

A new aspect of host cell invasion by the Salmonella pathogen

13 December 2013

21 February 2012 Prof Vassilis Koronakis' team have uncovered a new path by which the bacterial pathogen Salmonella triggers its uptake into intestinal cells to initiate infection. They reveal this week in Cell Host & Microbe that pathogen and host guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) cooperate to control host...

Exposure to micronutrients prior to pregnancy associated with gene modifications in offspring

13 December 2013

January 2012 Prof Nabeel Affara is lead author of the study that finds that micronutrients affect methylation, which has been associated with changes in the immune system. Read more

High-throughput decoding of anti-trypanosomal drug efficacy and resistance

13 December 2013

25 January 2012 Prof Mark C. Field, part of a collaborative study with investigators at the LSHTM and Sanger Institute, makes an important advance in the understanding of drug action in African trypanosomes. Read more

Inhibition of apoptosis and NF-κB activation by vaccinia protein N1 occur via distinct binding surfaces and make different contributions to virulence

13 December 2013

December 2011 Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes and Prof Geoffrey Smith have collaborative paper published in PLoS Pathogens. Read more

Cambridgeshire boost for pioneering project to improve genetic testing for cancer patients

13 December 2013

5 December 2011 Professor Peter Collins involved in initiative to establish genetic testing for cancer patients in the UK. Professor Peter Collins, Department of Pathology and a lead researcher at the Cambridge Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Network (ECMC) based at the University of Cambridge, is involved in an...

Vaccinia Virus Protein C6 Is a Virulence Factor that Binds TBK-1 Adaptor Proteins and Inhibits Activation of IRF3 and IRF7

13 December 2013

08 September 2011 Dr Rebecca Sumner and Prof Geoffrey Smith have collaborative paper published in PLoS Pathogens. Read more

Sticky/Citron kinase maintains proper RhoA localization at the cleavage site during cytokinesis

13 December 2013

17 November 2013 Dr Paolo D’Avino’s group published in The Journal of Cell Biology about the regulation of the small RhoA GTPase during cytokinesis. This study originates from the long-standing interest of Dr D’Avino in the mechanisms that control the last phase of cell division, cytokinesis. The first author of the paper...

Professor Colin Hughes elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

Prof Tony Kouzarides elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Cambridge children's doctor scoops prestigious prize

A new aspect of host cell invasion by the Salmonella pathogen

Exposure to micronutrients prior to pregnancy associated with gene modifications in offspring

High-throughput decoding of anti-trypanosomal drug efficacy and resistance

Inhibition of apoptosis and NF-κB activation by vaccinia protein N1 occur via distinct binding surfaces and make different contributions to virulence

Cambridgeshire boost for pioneering project to improve genetic testing for cancer patients

Vaccinia Virus Protein C6 Is a Virulence Factor that Binds TBK-1 Adaptor Proteins and Inhibits Activation of IRF3 and IRF7

Sticky/Citron kinase maintains proper RhoA localization at the cleavage site during cytokinesis

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