Professor Andy Smith, Head of the Integrative Toxicology Training Partnership (ITTP) at the MRC Toxicology Unit in Leicester, was nominated to deliver the 2019 Barnes Prize Lecture on 16 April at the British Toxicology Society (BTS) Annual Congress in Cambridge. The award was established in memory of Dr John Barnes, a...

Anne Willis attended a Wellcome Trust Researcher meeting in Mid-September and at the meeting they commissioned a graphic artist - Alex Cagan. Alex is a post-doctoral researcher, who works on somatic evolution at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. In his spare time, he captures the content of talks in real time, and summarises...

Two of our scientists, Liza Selly and Joaquin Zacarias Cabeza, recently took part in the MRC Festival Zone ‘I'm a Scientist get me out of here' event talking to school students from across the UK. Researchers put up a profile on the site, answer students’ questions about medical science, their research, their opinions and...