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Read more at: International tissue regeneration experts meet in Cambridge
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International tissue regeneration experts meet in Cambridge

6 August 2024

In July 2024, over 100 delegates met in Cambridge to discuss the biggest questions in tissue development and regeneration, share their latest discoveries and identify future scientific directions for innovation and collaboration. The ‘Building and Rebuilding Complex Tissues’ meeting brought together scientists from across...


Read more at: Summer research internship programme reaches its fourth year
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Summer research internship programme reaches its fourth year

30 July 2024

The Experience Postgraduate Life Sciences internship programme is running at the University of Cambridge, across the Schools of Biological Sciences and Clinical Medicine, for the fourth year. The group of 14 undergraduate students will be in Cambridge from 8th July to 30th August, staying at Corpus Christi College and...


Read more at: UKRI funding to boost engineering biology technologies at the University of Cambridge
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UKRI funding to boost engineering biology technologies at the University of Cambridge

20 February 2024

Four research projects in the School of Biological Sciences have received £5.4M in funding through the UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Awards to develop transformative technologies across biomedicine and clean growth. Antibodies for new therapeutics The “MAST, modular activator and silencer therapeutics” project brings...


Read more at: Uncovering new insights into childhood and adolescent brain development

Uncovering new insights into childhood and adolescent brain development

8 February 2024

A Wellcome Discovery Award funds a new groundbreaking study characterising the development of the brain during childhood and adolescence in unprecedented detail. A Wellcome Discovery Award has been awarded to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore from the School of Biological Sciences (Psychology) at the University of Cambridge...


Read more at: Three new Professorships launched to boost interdisciplinary research across the Biological Sciences at Cambridge
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Three new Professorships launched to boost interdisciplinary research across the Biological Sciences at Cambridge

24 November 2023

The School of Biological Sciences has announced three new Professor posts in areas of significant research importance across the biological sciences: Professor of Evolutionary Networks, Professor of Biotic Interactions and Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience. These exciting new positions aim to attract...


Read more at: Starting a new journey in postgraduate education
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Starting a new journey in postgraduate education

31 October 2023

We are very pleased to welcome the first cohort of students joining the MPhil in Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. The series of new Master’s courses, launched last year in the School of Biological Sciences, combines interactive seminar-style teaching with professional skills training while also giving...


Read more at: Spotlight on...Mekayla Storer

Spotlight on...Mekayla Storer

2 October 2023

In our Spotlight on series, we bring you interviews with the fascinating and diverse individuals who make up the School of Biological Sciences. Our latest story features Mekayla Storer. Dr Mekayla Storer Career Development Fellow and Group Leader, Wellcome – MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Department of Physiology...


Read more at: Equitable partnerships drive disease research
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Equitable partnerships drive disease research

4 September 2023

By Eva Amsen University of Cambridge researchers are forming equitable partnerships with collaborators in low- and middle-income countries to advance disease research and health outcomes. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected by both communicable and non-communicable diseases...


Read more at: Empowering the scientists of the future
Experience Postgrad Life Sciences 2023 internship students

Empowering the scientists of the future

26 July 2023

We are delighted to welcome the 15 students in the 2023 Experience Postgrad Life Sciences widening participation internship programme at Cambridge. This group of undergraduate students was selected from over 200 applicants from almost 50 different universities and will be in Cambridge from 10th July to 1st September. They...


Read more at: Seed funding grants to nurture new collaborations and innovative biological research
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Seed funding grants to nurture new collaborations and innovative biological research

17 July 2023

The School of Biological Sciences, in partnership with the Isaac Newton Trust, have launched a seed funding grants scheme to support scientists across the School to develop ambitious research programmes and facilitate new collaborations that address biological problems across scales and systems. The scheme has emerged...