The Protein Contacts Atlas by Lister Fellow Madan Babu

Find out more about the Protein Contacts Atlas - an innovative new directory featuring visual representations of over 100,000 biomolecules.

Professor David Lyons Publishes in Nature Neuroscience

Distinguished Lister Fellow Professor David Lyons publishes in Nature Neuroscience on how calcium ions can affect myelin sheath formation.

Lister Prize Applications 2018: The Numbers Behind Our Most Successful Year Ever

We are delighted to announce that this year the Lister Institute’s competitive research prizes have received the highest number of applications since the awards’ inception.

An Updated Website for the Lister Institute

Find out more about the newly updated Lister Institute website, and discover how we are helping to support the UK and Republic of Ireland's biomedical research community.

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Honours a Lister Fellow

We are delighted to report that in October 2017 Lister Institute Fellow Professor Michael Eddleston was awarded the Cullen Medal by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor Nia Bryant moves to York

Currently at the University of Glasgow Lister Institute Prize Fellow Professor Nia Bryant has been promoted to Chair of Cell Biology at the University of York.