Lister community members awarded prestigious new fellowships

A number of current and former members of the Lister community have been made fellows of leading scientific societies.

Welcome 2024 Lister Prize Fellows

Announcing the annual Lister Prize winners is one of the highlights of our calendar, and 2024 is no exception. This year we welcome six new Lister Fellows, each one an exceptional early-career researcher in biomedical science.

James Lee’s Nature paper unveils an ancient driver of inflammatory bowel disease – and a new way to treat it

Lister Fellow James Lee and his colleagues at the Francis Crick Institute have published a new paper this week in Nature, revealing a new biological pathway that plays a major role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Our first Fellows Visit of 2024! Congratulations Srikanth Ramaswamy

On Monday 15 April, Our Chair Sir John Iredale and Director Sally Burtles visited the Faculty of Medical Sciences to formally award the Lister Prize to our 2023 Fellow Srikanth Ramaswamy.

Danny Smith to lead a new £4 million hub for metabolic psychiatry

We caught up with Danny to discuss the new project and his ‘whole body’ perspective on mental health.

How a ‘sponge on a string’ improved cancer prevention in the NHS

Rebecca Fitzgerald wears many hats. Apart from being a member of the Lister Institute Governing Body and a former Lister Prize Fellow, she is Director of the Early Cancer Institute, Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, and a practising consultant in gastroenterology, to name just a few.

Awards and achievements for two Lister Fellows

Two current Lister Fellows are celebrating major achievements in preventive medicine.

Yogesh Kulathu’s new research reveals one way cells keep themselves healthy

Proteins are present all over our cells, playing a vital role in keeping cellular processes ticking over.

Two Lister Fellows make waves in ALS research

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the two Fellows and their co-authors explain their discovery that genetic material,…

Lister Fellow Dr Chris Stewart wins the WH Pierce Prize

Lister Fellow Chris Stewart was the recipient of the 2023 WH Pierce Prize for microbiology in recognition of his work on infant health and its relationship to the microbiome.

New year, new knighthood – congratulations to our Chair Sir John Iredale!

Lister Institute Chair John Iredale has been named in 2024’s New Year Honours List as a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom.

Lister Fellow Rickie Patani leads new research on Motor Neurone Disease

Lister Fellow Professor Rickie Patani is leading a major new research project to explore the cellular mechanisms behind Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The project is funded by the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation (MNDF), a charity set up by Scottish rugby star Doddie Weir, who lived with the condition.