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The strategic mission of the MBU is to understand mitochondrial biology in health and disease, and to exploit this understanding to develop new therapies and improve human health.

Professor Patrick Chinnery appointed Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council

22 August 2023

Congratulations to Professor Patrick Chinnery , who has been appointed Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council. Full details are available on the University of Cambridge and Medical Research Council websites.

Assessment of left ventricular tissue mitochondrial bioenergetics in patients with stable coronary artery disease

9 August 2023

In a letter published in Nature Cardiovascular Research , Professor Mike Murphy and collaborators report on a study led by Richard Jones and supervised jointly by Sanjay K Prasad (Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK) and Mike Murphy (MBU, Cambridge). Recurrent...

Aspiring Scientists Training Programme (ASTP) 2023

17 July 2023

From 10-14 July 2023, the MBU participated in the Aspiring Scientists Training Programmme. Led by St Catharine’s College and the Gurdon Institute , we collaborated with Pembroke College , Sainsbury Laboratory , Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science in an expanded programme...

Tenured Professorship for Michal Minczuk

19 June 2023

The General Board of the Faculties of the University of Cambridge has recommended that, with effect from 1 October 2023, a Professorship be established for Dr Michal Minczuk (assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences). Congratulations!

"In Our Time" - Radio 4

12 June 2023

On 1 June 2023, Mike Murphy , Flo Camus and Nick Lane talked to Melvyn Bragg about "Mitochondria" in an episode of "In Our Time". The podcast can be heard via this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md34 inourtime.jpg

Atomic details revealed of a key protein involved in the burning of fat

31 May 2023

The results of a collaborative research study led by Professors Edmund Kunji and Vera Moiseenkova-Bell , involving scientists from the Universities of Cambridge, Pennsylvania, East Anglia and Brussels, have been published in Science Advances . Uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is the protein that allows specialised brown fat...

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit

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The strategic mission of the MBU is to understand mitochondrial biology in health and disease, and to exploit this understanding to develop new therapies and improve human health.

Professor Patrick Chinnery appointed Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council

Assessment of left ventricular tissue mitochondrial bioenergetics in patients with stable coronary artery disease

Aspiring Scientists Training Programme (ASTP) 2023

Tenured Professorship for Michal Minczuk

"In Our Time" - Radio 4

Atomic details revealed of a key protein involved in the burning of fat

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