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Paul Fannon awarded OBE

19 June 2024

The Department of Genetics is delighted to announce that Paul Fannon, a teaching associate in data science and machine learning in our bioinformatics training facility has been awarded an OBE for services to Education. Paul has taught many aspects of mathematics across the University and he won CUSU student-led teaching...

Schmidt Science Fellows 2024

10 June 2024

The Award The Schmidt Science Fellowships are highly competitive awards established by Eric Schmidt from Google that support a pathway to independence. Around 30 awards are made internationally per year to individuals with recent PhDs that are focused on analytical approaches in the sciences. We have two recipients from...

Grant awarded to the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability

10 June 2024

We are delighted to announce the Department of Genetics is participating in a major new research initiative funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Wellcome. Led by Prof Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen, who will shortly join the Department as a Director of Research, and Prof Richard Durbin, the AEGIS (...

Dr Adelaide Carpenter, 1944 - 2024

3 June 2024

It is with great sadness we announce the death of Adelaide Carpenter. Adelaide has been in the Department for over 30 years, initially working in Michael Ashburner’s lab, then with David Glover and latterly as a visitor in Felipe’s group. Prior to coming to Cambridge she was a full professor at University of California...

Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure

17 May 2024

Professor Henrik Salje , is the joint senior author on a new study about the measles vaccine which has found that a single dose of the measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in children born by C-section, compared to those born naturally. "Measles remains a major global killer. We have an...

BioTryp Therapeutics

18 March 2024

BioTryp Therapeutics imageedit_7_3192208276.png BioTryp Therapeutics is a spin-off company from the Department of Genetics, developing novel oral antibiofilm therapies for bacterial infections, with an initial focus on urinary tract infections (UTIs). Bacterial biofilms are communities surrounded by an extracellular matrix...

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith appointed Executive Chair of BBSRC

20 December 2023

We are delighted to share the news that Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith has been appointed as the Executive Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Anne holds the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, as well as being the Pro-vice Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships at...

Professional Services Recognition Scheme - Award Winners 2023

18 December 2023

The Department of Genetics is delighted to report that Amie Baker , Chief Building and Facilities Manager, was announced as a winner of the 'Innovating and Improving' award at the Professional Services Recognition ceremony on Monday 11 December 2023. 46780633-dd0d-4207-a733-731964443b06.jpg The award recognised Amie's hard...

Professor Rosana Collepardo-Guevara awarded grant from the European Research Council (ERC)

15 December 2023

imageedit_1_6689638110.png Rosana Collepardo-Guevara , Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Genetics and Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry Rosana is one of the 4 Cambridge scientists to receive a consolidator grant from the European Research Council. “We will investigate the transformative...

International Prize for Biology 2023

25 August 2023

International Prize for Biology 2023 The Department of Genetics is delighted to announce that Professor Richard Durbin has been awarded the 39 th International Prize for Biology by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, which this year focused on the Biology of Genomes. The award recognises Richard’s development...