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Read more at: PHAsT upscales its eco-friendly bacterial fermentation at the MBU

PHAsT upscales its eco-friendly bacterial fermentation at the MBU

4 October 2023

Last week, supported by funding from a UKRI Impact Accelerator Grant proposed by Ipsita Roy and David Gregory, members of PHAsT visited the MBU and upscaled its fermentation PHA process to the 100L scale - ending up with fantastic yields! Our Fermenter Facility Supervisor, Shane Palmer , provided significant support...


Read more at: Professor Patrick Chinnery appointed Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council

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.


Read more at: Assessment of left ventricular tissue mitochondrial bioenergetics in patients with stable coronary artery disease

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...


Read more at: Aspiring Scientists Training Programme (ASTP) 2023

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...


Read more at: Tenured Professorship for Michal Minczuk

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!


Read more at: "In Our Time" - Radio 4

"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


Read more at: Atomic details revealed of a key protein involved in the burning of fat
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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...


Read more at: MBU Researchers at Pint of Science (Cambridge)

MBU Researchers at Pint of Science (Cambridge)

25 May 2023

Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to your local pub/cafe/space to share their scientific discoveries with you - no prior knowledge required. The event recently took place in 37 towns and cities across the UK and Dr Stephen Burr (senior postdoctoral researcher in the Chinnery group)...


Read more at: Cambridge Festival 2023

Cambridge Festival 2023

29 March 2023

On 18 March, the MBU joined other scientific organisations based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for our first CBC in-person Cambridge Festival event since lockdown. Alongside Penny Peck and Alex Whitworth , Alva Casey ( Murphy Group ), Dnyanesh Dubal ( van den Ameele Group ), Alannah King ( Kunji Group ), Nell Nie (...


Read more at: Potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases

Potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases

29 March 2023

The results of a collaborative research study recently published in Nature , with Dylan Ryan as co-corresponding author, identifies fumarate hydratase (FH) as a potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases. Macrophages are a frontline inflammatory cell type that are implicated in a range of diseases including...