Honorary degree for former fellow and SAC member, Professor Barry Potter

Congratulations go out to Professor Barry Potter who recently received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bath.

Musical chairs: We bid farewell to our Chair, Alex Markham, and welcome both his replacement and the new SAC Chair

As Professor Sir Alex Markham’s tenure as Chair comes to an end, he will be succeeded by Professor John Iredale. And in turn, Professor Julian Blow will replace John as Chair of our Scientific Advisory Committee.

Announcing the eight Lister Research Prize Fellows 2022

With the 2023 Prize shortly opening for applications, we are delighted to announce the researchers who have been awarded the 2022 Fellowship.

Important discovery from Tim Blower’s lab and two Royal Society Fellowships

Current Fellow Tim Blower publishes new paper revealing discovery of new family of BREX phage defence system regulators. Meanwhile, Professors Kate Storey and Paul Lehner are elected as Royal Society Fellows.

Two new papers on COVID vaccine response and HIV resistance from Lister Fellow Ravi Gupta

2021 Lister Fellow Professor Ravi Gupta and colleagues publish latest research into HIV drug resistance and separately, on understanding African vaccine responses.

Getting up-to-date with Prize Winners’ Presentations in Dublin

The Lister Institute visits Dublin to celebrate the success of Tomás Ryan and to encourage more researchers based in Irish institutions to apply for the Prize.

New research from Former Fellows helps explain why a type of infant leukaemia so often evades treatment

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa and Dr Sarah Teichmann contributed to a recent paper in Nature Medicine, detailing how their research reveals more about infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL).

In conversation with Lister Fellow Dr Stineke van Houte

We sat down with Stineke to find out what it was like to apply for – and win – the Prize as a new parent and during a global pandemic.

Lister signs cross-funder statement to formally recognise impact of the pandemic

Future applicants to the Lister Prize are welcomed and encouraged to explain how COVID-19 has affected them, their team, and their research.

Celebrating the continuing success of the Lister’s Summer Studentships

In 2021, 41 Lister Summer Studentships took place to help support the biomedical scientists of the future.

Former Fellow Professor Paul Lehner publishes Nature paper on how HUSH defends the human genome

Former Lister Fellow Professor Paul Lehner recently published a paper in Nature, which details his research into how the Human Silencing Hub (HUSH) complex protects the human genome from viruses and other retroelement invaders.

Lister Fellow Tomás Ryan publishes major review on memory engrams and theory of forgetting

Lister Fellow Tomás Ryan, of Trinity College Dublin, co-presents a new review paper that presents a novel theory of forgetting.