Retinal photograph of a patient with cryotherapy scars at the far peripheral retina
Dr Peter Thomas, a consultant paediatric ophthalmologist, is leading a very intriguing research project that could provide enormous benefits for patients with...
A project led by renowned neurologist Professor Patrick Chinnery, of the Cambridge BRC, aims to unravel the role in dementia of ‘somatic mutations’ in the...
The team led by Professor Chris Watson at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine have been investigating the possibilities provided by livers...
Extracellular membrane vesicles associated with a long cellular process on a neural stem cell, imaged by a scanning electron microscope. From Iraci, Gaude et al. Extracellular vesicles are independent metabolic units with asparaginase activity. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Sep;13(9):951-955
The Pluchino Lab is excited that they have proved that stem cell therapeutics can work by communicating with other cells, promoting the healing of the injured...
Dr Caroline Williams-Gray, MRC Clinician Scientist at the University of Cambridge, has been investigating the link between the inflammation in the brain and...
Renowned heart transplant surgeon, Stephen Large, a consultant surgeon and leading member of the senior team at Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has...
Screenshot of the ‘Who Cares’ app
Many people provide huge amounts of care to relatives or friends, but may not identify themselves as ‘carers’, so the first step to providing support in a...
A two-year ‘citizen science’ project, funded by the Evelyn Trust, is working hard to challenge assumptions made about the transmission of infection among young...
Dr Harriet Groom
Researchers in infectious diseases around the world have been excited in recent years by the potential of the protein SAMHD1 in therapies for a variety of...
Dr Hoi Ping Mok, Dr Mark Wills and Prof Andrew Lever
Over the last year, the Evelyn Trust has been funding research to investigate viral latency and reactivation – the mechanism by which viruses such as HIV ‘...
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