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29/11/2021

A remarkable partnership

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Report 2019-2020.

Great science depends on teamwork, yet genuine partnerships are rare, especially those which sustain success over decades. Dr Len Stephens and Dr Phill Hawkins, both group leaders in the Institute’s Signalling programme, have worked together for more than 30 years. Here, they reflect on their research, their relationship – and their distinctly different approaches to fishing.

29/11/2021

Back to basics

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Report 2019-2020.

Setting up a new group is exciting and daunting. Two group leaders who joined the Signalling programme in 2019 – Dr Hayley Sharpe and Dr Rahul Samant – talk about their research and the supportive, collaborative and open environment that they say marks out the Institute.

29/11/2021

The essential element

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Report 2019-2020.

Oxygen makes up 21% of the Earth’s atmosphere and plays a pivotal role in biological systems. Despite this, huge gaps remain in our understanding of how this essential element regulates cell signalling pathways and affects our immune system – questions that Dr Sarah Ross aims to answer.

01/07/2018

Making the Most of Signalling ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ

This feature was written by Becky Allen for the Annual ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Report 2017

Bringing together the Institute’s researchers with scientists in the 60 companies on the Babraham ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Campus is helping turn innovative ideas into new benefits for human health – fast. Over the past two years, members of the Signalling research programme have transformed a conversation over coffee into a collaboration that could deliver new ways of treating some of the most intractable human cancers.