Eve Stalker, a PhD student in the Willis Lab, and Dr Miriam Cipullo, a Postdoctoral Fellow joint between AstraZeneca and the MacFarlane Lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit were awarded prizes at the joint BTS-BPS Meeting ‘Toxicology in a New Era of Pharmacology’. The one-day conference brought together experts across...

Our Unit Director Prof Anne Willis has been awarded the prestigious John Barnes Prize Award from the British Toxicology Society . Prof Willis leads a research group investigating the role of post-transcriptional control in response to toxic injury with a focus on RNA-binding proteins, regulatory RNA motifs and tRNAs and...

Researchers from the Unit took part in the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form College on 12th October. We brought along our Human Bookshelf activity and turned 8 of our scientists into 'human books' for the day. Visitors were able to loan our books for conversations about their research topics, what it is like to be...

Trials of a cancer 'vaccine' have begun. The vaccine is based on the same mRNA technology as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. As part of this latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Inside Health programme, James Gallagher visits the Unit and speaks to Prof Anne Willis and Dr James Thaventhiran about how the vaccine is...