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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…

Congratulations to Naomi van den Berg, 2020 cohort PhD student on the SBS DTP programme, for publishing two articles, "Pro-Science? Fight Anti-Science Compassionately" in Bluesci and, "Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities" in Nature Ecology & Evolution.Pro-Science? Fight Anti-Science Compassion…

Natalie attended the Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) Away Day at Robinson College where she presented a poster of her PhD research. Natalie’s research focuses on elucidating the genetic basis of obesity and how investigation in dogs can offer translational insight into human obesity.The IMS research retreat focused on the research of human met…

Congratulations to Kyle Reid, 2019 cohort PhD student on the BBSRC DTP programme, for publishing the Research Article ‘Brain Cells Release Calreticulin That Attracts and Activates Microglia, and Inhibits Amyloid Beta Aggregation and Neurotoxicity’ in Frontiers in Immunology.Here, Kyle and colleagues show that the protein calreticulin is released by…

Olaf Kranse, BBSRC DTP student in the Department of Plant Sciences, won first place in the student poster competition at the 7th International Congress of Nematology, which took place in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins (France), 1-6 May 2022. The Congress is held every 4 years and in this edition brought together over six hundred and eighty-two nematologists…

Diljeet spoke to presenter Mishal Husain about how he has been able to partially rejuvenate cells so that they behave more youthfully, and appear 30 years younger by biological measures. Diljeet’s method of transient reprogramming, although in early stages, could eventually have implications for regenerative medicine.Diljeet published his research …

Every year, the DTP programme hold a Symposium to discuss PIPS with students and host organisations. After the success of last year virtual event, finally we came back with a face-to-face event, which took place on Friday, 1 April 2022 at the Babraham Campus.The event was attended by organisations from different sectors such as StartCodon, Page Med…

STEM for BRITAIN Press Release March 2022Two PhD students on the Cambridge BBSRC DTP - Orla Woodward (Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science) and Hamish Symington (Plant Sciences) – were awarded prizes in a Parliamentary showcase of early-career research. They were shortlisted from hundreds of applicants to present their biosciences research …

Congratulations to BBSRC DTP student Jack Smith for winning two category prizes in the British Ecological Society photo competition - Capturing Ecology 2021.The winning images and an additional eight highly commended images taken by international ecologists and students, celebrate the diversity of ecology, capturing flora and fauna from across the …

Department of Chemistry BBSRC DTP student Adrian Murgoci and his supervisor Professor Melinda Duer's paper 'Molecular conformations and dynamics in the extracellular matrix of mammalian structural tissues: Solid-state NMR spectroscopy approaches', has recently been published in the Science Directs' 'Matrix Biology journal.The highlights are: Solid-…

Congratulations to one of our Alumni Jolyon Martin who has been named in the Science and Healthcare category on Forbes list of “30 under 30 in Europe" for his work as co-founder of PetMedix Ltd, a company bringing antibody therapeutics to veterinary medicine. Each year Forbes ranks the world based on a variety of categories, ranging from the wealth…

Congratulations to Madeleine Ball for winning the Biochemical Society Science Communication 1st Prize in the Postgraduate Category for her 'Sonic the Hedgehog and the Brain' presentation video.About the AwardEach year the Biochemical Society looks to identify and celebrate outstanding science communicators with an annual Science Communication Prize…

Congratulations to Chris Micklem, 2018 cohort PhD student on the BBSRC DTP Programme, for publishing the Review Article ‘Cut the noise or couple up: Coordinating circadian and synthetic clocks’ in Cell Press iScience.Chris and his Supervisor, James Locke, discuss how circadian clocks across the Tree of Life are coordinated, the experimental and the…