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MRC Centenary Early Career Award winners
07 November 2012
The MRC has awarded NIMR a sum of money under its MRC Centenary Early Career Awards scheme, to help support early career researchers.
Sex chromosome conflict
30 October 2012
NIMR researchers and collaborators have demonstrated an intragenomic conflict between the X and Y chromosomes in mice.
A weakened immune system leads to retroviral awakening
25 October 2012
NIMR scientists have described previously unknown retroviruses in mice, and a potential link between infection and cancer. The research is published online in Nature.
London Down Syndrome consortium awarded £2.5 million for research
15 October 2012
Researchers from UCL, Birkbeck, Queen Mary and NIMR have been granted a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award to understand how learning disabilities develop in people with Down Syndrome and to identify the processes involved in the decline that often occurs as people with Down Syndrome age.
NIMR research featured in MRC Annual Review 2011-12
03 October 2012
The work of three NIMR research groups is featured in the latest MRC Annual Review: Advancing medicine, changing lives.
Mike Gaze (1927-2012)
27 September 2012
Mike Gaze died on 11 September 2012, aged 85. He was Head of NIMR's Division of Developmental Biology for 13 years, working on the development of the visual system in amphibians.
Research Summer School students gain confidence and skills
26 September 2012
Ten school students have experienced the trials and triumphs of laboratory work thanks to NIMR's Research Summer School.
PhD projects available
24 September 2012
We are now accepting applications for PhD projects to commence in autumn 2013. The closing date is 28 Nov 2012.
Unique enzyme controls malaria parasite development - shape, movement and invasion
21 September 2012
A team of researchers at the Universities of Nottingham, Oxford, Edinburgh, Leicester, Imperial College, and at NIMR have discovered a unique protein phosphatase, PPKL that regulates malaria parasite development and invasion of mosquitoes, an essential stage for parasite transmission. The research is published in PLOS Pathogens.
NIMR Human Biology Essay Competition 2012 - results
19 September 2012
The winner and two runners-up in the NIMR school essay competition have been announced.
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