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We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Sam Byers as the Training and Inclusivity Support Manager for the Cambridge Biosciences DTP cohorts. Bringing a wealth of experience to this role, Sam previously served in the Postgraduate Researcher Development Team at the Cambridge Centre of Teaching and Learning. In her former role, she played a …

On Tuesday 18th July the Cambridge Biosciences DTP hosted the Annual DTP Student Symposium at St John’s College.The event was a remarkable showcase of student excellence, featuring interesting talks from various DTP cohorts and engaging poster sessions. This unique platform allowed DTP students to not only present their groundbreaking scientific en…

On Friday 30 March, we held our annual PIPS Symposium at the Babraham Campus. The event aims to connect current students, who haven’t completed their PIPS yet, with potential host organisations. It was attended by host representatives coming from different sectors, such as GSK, PetMedix, UK Dementia Research Institute, Lifescience Dynamics, Benefic…

William was looking for something that would be both rewarding and interesting to him as a plant scientist. After innumerable emails, and no small amount of luck, he found himself talking with the lead forester at Redwood National Park, and with his help arranged to travel over to Northern California to join him at Redwood National and State Parks …

Photo - left to right: Sabila Chilaeva, Udit Surya Saha, Kyriacos Leptos, Chi Ki Leung.Research in stem cell biology requires knowledge and tools from several disciplines and in particular, from physics and biology. The Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology has been established to meet this need and recently selected Sabila Chilaeva (Cohort 2019) t…

In January 2023, Natalie attended the world renowned Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) in Singapore.This is a multi-disciplinary event bringing together scientific minds from 32 countries to discuss science and technology trends, future game changers and how research could address major global challenges. Impressive speakers included multiple N…

The team of undergraduate students and postgraduate instructors, including a group of PhD candidates from the Cambridge BBSRC and SBS DTP, worked on a synthetic biology project to represent Cambridge in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2022 competition.iGEM is the largest synthetic biology competition and community worldwide,…

As part of the BBSRC DTP programme, Natalie successfully completed her twelve-week Professional Internship for PhD Students (PIPs). Natalie made the most of the scheme by taking the opportunity to do a PIPs abroad. She conducted her internship in British Columbia, Canada.PIPs must be in a field differing from your specific PhD subject, and Natalie …

BioNTech founders, Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, visited Cambridge to give the annual Milstein Lecture at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology. During their visit, Sabila Chilaeva (BBSRC DTP 2019 Cohort) had the opportunity to have lunch with them. It was a unique and wonderful opportunity, one of the many opportunities that a PhD in Cambridge offers…

We are very pleased to welcome the new 2022 SBS DTP students to Cambridge.On their first week, the 31 students took part in an induction meeting. This was a great opportunity to meet in-person with students after almost 2 years of online induction events. Students had the chance to learn more about starting their research degree, the support and tr…

On Monday 25 July the Cambridge Biosciences DTP hosted another successful Annual DTP Student Symposium at Robinson College!The event featured student talks across the DTP cohorts and poster sessions, providing all DTP students with an opportunity to share their science and exchange research ideas. Our guest speakers were Dr Simon Cook (Director of …

Our DTP Student, Jack Marcus Smith, was recently featured on BBC Springwatch. Jack is currently on the last year of his PhD in the Department of Zoology.His research encompasses evolutionary biology and animal behaviour, and explores how social interactions within families induce evolutionary change. This could be the social interactions between pa…

A new methodology, developed by our Cambridge Biosciences DTP alumna, Dr Lavinia Dunsmore, during her PhD, has created a way to avoid the toxicity of some plant-derived cancer-killing drugs by 'masking' their toxicity until they reach their targets, potentially leading to more effective cancer therapies.Using the new method, the researchers were ab…

Congratulations to Harriet Bartlett, 2017 cohort PhD student on the BBSRC DTP programme, for publishing the Research Article ‘Understanding the relative risks of zoonosis emergence under contrasting approaches to meeting livestock product demand’ in Royal Society Open Science.To read the full article, please click here.The research findings were al…

A recent survey of all alumni of our DTP1 and DTP2 programmes provides a snapshot of their career trajectories and insights into how the DTP programme helped to launch their careers.Of the 65 responses, all but one are currently employed with roughly a third in academic research, a third in biotech or pharma companies and the remaining third applyi…