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.

Nick Lemoine made CBE and major new appointment for John Iredale

In recent news, former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Professor Nick Lemoine, was awarded a CBE, and SAC Chair, Professor John Iredale, has been appointed interim Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

Season’s Greetings from the Lister Institute

We look forward to watching our Fellows expand their vital research and to continuing our support for them and the wider biomedical research community in 2022.

First Fellows’ presentations since the onset of the pandemic

Greatly delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, recent Prize talks have been a fantastic opportunity for the Lister to catch up with their promising young Fellows.

New discoveries and major reviews recently published by Lister Fellows

Rob Klose’s lab has published an exciting new paper and Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir has authored two reviews.

New research papers from Dr Matt Hepworth and Dr Tim Blower

We explore recently published papers from Lister Fellows Dr Tim Blower and Dr Matt Hepworth.