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Shooting calcium at lysosomes

12 December 2018

Peace Atakpa, working with Babu Thillaiappan, David Prole and Stefania Mataragka in Colin Taylor’s lab, has shown, using a variety of approaches including a novel genetically encoded Ca2+ sensor, that a specific intracellular channel selectively delivers Ca2+ to lysosomes...

Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

9 December 2018

The MRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing £6.7 million to support the UK’s contribution to mapping every cell type in the human body, through the global Human Cell Atlas initiative..

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship

6 December 2018

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship that aims to bring cancer scientists back to Australia...

A brain highway for glucose

27 November 2018

Margit Muller (in Colin Taylor’s lab) has shown, using optical sensors that report glucose concentrations within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), that a hitherto enigmatic enzyme, glucose-6-phosphatase-β, is required for effective glucose uptake by astrocytes...

BSc Pharmacology Prize

14 November 2018

We are pleased to inform you all that two of our Part II class from last year won prizes from the British Pharmacological Society...

Potential target for lung cancer treatment discovered

21 August 2018

Scientists have identified a key molecular player in a subtype of lung cancer which could lead to a new way to tackle the disease, according to research published in Nature Communications today...

Jonathan Cutajar

21 June 2018

Congratulations to Jonathan Cutajar...

University of Cambridge welcomes MRC Toxicology

23 April 2018

On Thursday, 19th April 2018 Abby Fowden was accompanied by members from the School to a Welcome Party hosted by Professor Anne Willis...

New research charity Platelet Society

17 April 2018

Pharmacology lecturer helps launch new research charity Platelet Society...

Subject Masterclasses

13 April 2018

Dr Lesley MacVinish delivered a talk on Medicine Admissions to 450 Year 12s today as part of the Masterclass series...

Shooting calcium at lysosomes

Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

Kyren Lazarus has been awarded the 2019 Lorne Boomerang Travel Fellowship

A brain highway for glucose

BSc Pharmacology Prize

Potential target for lung cancer treatment discovered

Jonathan Cutajar

University of Cambridge welcomes MRC Toxicology

New research charity Platelet Society

Subject Masterclasses

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