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NIMR Nuffield students successes
10 November 2008
Five of the students who attended NIMR's Summer School for Research this year have won prizes for their work.
TGF-beta reprograms effector T cell differentiation
31 October 2008
NIMR scientists have shown that transforming growth factor-beta acts like a regulatory switch that helps to reprogram effector T cell differentiation along different pathways. The research is published online in Nature Immunology.
Mill Hill Essays 2008 now available
17 October 2008
The twelfth collection of Mill Hill Essays, addressing aspects of current medical science of interest to the public and to scientists generally, is now online.
Three NIMR scientists elected as EMBO members
15 October 2008
Three more NIMR scientists, James Briscoe, Alex Gould and Gitta Stockinger, have been elected as EMBO members this year. Election as an EMBO Member is a tribute to the significant contribution to the advancement of science made by each of these researchers.
Gitta Stockinger receives ERC Advanced Grant
14 October 2008
Gitta Stockinger is one of the successful candidates in the first European Research Council Advanced Grant competition in the domain of life sciences.
Associative learning in single-celled organisms
07 October 2008
The body could learn to regulate the release of drugs into the blood stream in a similar way that Pavlov’s dog learned to salivate at the sound of a bell, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Jim Smith appointed as Director of NIMR
06 October 2008
Professor Jim Smith has been appointed as Director of NIMR following an international search. Professor Smith will take up this post on 1 January 2009.
The importance of IL-12 - a classic paper by Anne O’Garra
30 September 2008
A 1993 paper by Anne OGarra in Science has been highlighted as a Pillar of Immunology by the Journal of Immunology.
A fluorescent reporter of caspase activity for live imaging
09 September 2008
NIMR scientists have devised a sensor that detects, in live embryos, cells that are committed to die. The research is published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
NIMR research highlighted in MRC Annual Review
08 September 2008
The MRC Annual Review highlights the more significant MRC-funded research that came to fruition in the past year and explains how it relates to human health. The 2007/8 review features the work of some NIMR research groups.
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