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The first patients were enrolled into a clinical trial of alpelisib in Dent disease 2 @bambinogesu, funded by @charitylowe @lowesyndrome and the Dent Disease Foundation. The drug was identified by @GallopLab and Olivier Devuyst's lab. Read more: bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/first-pil…

Congratulations to Dr Kiran Patil who has been awarded a €150,000 proof-of-concept grant from the European Research Council to develop novel live biotherapeutics for boosting cancer therapy. Read more about the award: buff.ly/KcfT1gW @ERC_Research @kiran_r_patil

"What does #EngineeringBiology mean to you?" We invited several members of the #EngBio community to share their definition of this evolving field. Here's what our co-chair, Prof Laura Machesky (@LMachesky), had to say... #FacesOfEngBio

The call for 2025/2026 Cambridge RNA Club is open!! Contact us if you are interested @CamBiochem @GurdonInstitute @Cambridge_Uni

This week we had the pleasure of taking part in the ASTP programme as part of the @CamBiochem , with @GurdonInstitute and @MRC_TU It was a joy to welcome Zainab to the lab and share some of our research projects. We hope you enjoyed the experience✨ #ASTP2025 #FutureScientists

What if viruses held the secret to fixing our mRNA tails? How do viruses influence mRNA degradation? Dive into the topic with Ara Latifkar on July 17 at 17:00 GMT via Zoom. A viral twist on RNA decay you won’t want to miss! @CamBiochem @WhiteheadInst

Honoured to present my University of Cambridge research on ribosome stalling in yeast at Translation UK 2025. Special thanks to the Biochemistry Society for supporting me with the travel bursary. @Cambridge_Uni @FitzwilliamColl @CamBiochem @EdinburghUni #BiochemEvent #TLUK2025

Researchers in the Patil Lab have discovered that certain species of gut bacteria can absorb PFAS. Boosting these species in our gut microbiome could be a new way to protect us from the harmful effects of PFAS. Read more here: buff.ly/4FsVFsS @Cambridge_SBS

This week, @UlrikaYuan and @PaulaMilro presented their exciting postdoctoral projects at the @CamBiochem Postdoc Symposium! It was an excellent couple of days of science, career development and networking! Huge thanks to the organisers from the biochemistry postdoc committee! 🙌

The Bornelöv Group is seeking a Research Assistant to work on gene regulation using deep learning. This is an exciting opportunity to use AI-based methods to uncover the molecular mechanisms behind mRNA processing and fate. Apply here by 8 July 2025: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51812/

Don't miss tomorrow RNA Club at @CamBiochem with @T_Kamenova and @ana_tufegdzic !!

🎤 Save the date! 26th June at 17:00 in @CamBiochem , @T_Kamenova will share her latest work on how the lncRNA LINC00673 shapes transcription and cell fate in lung cancer.🍕 Pizza & summer drinks in the garden after the talk! Come for the science, stay for the summer vibes ☀️🧃

Don't miss the last in-person RNA club session of the academic year! 🗓️ June 26 | 🕓 5pm | 📍 @CamBiochem Come for the science, stay for the great questions, and enjoy the pizza and drinks!

The Gurdon Institute Public Engagement team, Lowe Syndrome Association patient charity and Gallop laboratory have written an article about their co-production collaboration for the 2024 International Lowe Syndrome Symposium. frontiersin.org/journals/cell-…

Excited to share our new study on how resistance to AKT inhibition is linked to lineage differences within breast cancer 👇🏽biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and also surprisingly/worryingly good AI generated podcast 🎧notebooklm.google.com/notebook/28ebc…

🆕 New publication from the Tchasovnikarova Lab! CRAMP1 drives linker histone expression to enable Polycomb repression 🧬 Read the full study in Molecular Cell: 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Epigenetics #Chromatin #GeneRegulation #Polycomb #GurdonInstitute #SBS_Cambridge

A beautiful day to celebrate #CambridgePride with the Old Addenbrooke’s Neighbourhood @UnivCamPharm @MRC_TU @GurdonInstitute @CamBiochem 🏳️‍🌈

Congratulations to @DEggerichs from @hollfelderlab on his award of the Prize for Bioconversion of Renewable Resources from the German Chemical Society (@GDCh_aktuell) for his PhD thesis @TischlerLab at Ruhr University Bochum. Read more: bioc.cam.ac.uk/news/daniel-eg…

The Jackson Group are recruiting for a Research Associate to work on voltage-gated sodium channels. Apply here by 17 June 2025: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51511/