Naomi King retires from the Lister Institute after 20 years
Everyone at the Lister wishes our former administrator, Naomi, a very happy retirement!
Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
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Professor Wendy Bickmore appointed CBE in New Year Honours List
Professor Wendy Anne Bickmore has been awarded a CBE for services to biomedical sciences and to women in science in the New Year’s Honours list.
Festive greetings from the Lister Institute and farewell to 2020
We bid farewell to 2020 and the successes achieved by the Lister and its Fellows in the past year.
Reflecting on 2020’s successful Summer Studentships
We take a look back on the Summer Studentships that still went ahead in 2020.
Former Lister Fellow Michael Eddleston publishes in the Lancet
In parts of rural Asia self-poisoning using agricultural pesticides is a serious issue. It has been estimated that up to 89% of all suicides from pesticide self-poisoning worldwide occur in the Asian and Western Pacific regions, and pesticide ingestion is recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Lister Fellow Published in Nature Neuroscience
We are pleased to announce that a Lister Institute research prize fellow Professor Sherif El-Khamisy has led a paper that was recently published in the prestigious Nature Neuroscience.
Sir Alec Jeffreys is made a Companion of Honour
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys has been made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2017.
Cyrus Cooper Joins Scientific Advisory Committee
Professor Cooper is currently Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit; Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton; and Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.
Corinne Houart Joins Scientific Advisory Committee
Professor Houart completed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the University of Brussels where she studied hepatic gene regulation in development and cancer.
Professor Wendy Bickmore joins Governing Body
Wendy Bickmore is Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, part of the MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.