MRC National Mouse Genetics Network
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Distributed challenge-led research clusters working with the Mary Lyon Centre at @MRCHarwell to accelerate understanding of human disease using #MouseModels
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Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell
The UK’s national facility for mouse genetics and the use of mouse models for the pre-clinical study of human disease.
Philip Dunne
Molecular phenotyping in colorectal cancer. Reader in Belfast @QUBPGJCCR & Group Leader in Glasgow @CRUK_SI
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Karen Blyth
Laura Greaves
Research from our MRC NMGN Cancer Cluster co-lead Louis Chesler has lead to a possible repurposing of a cancer drug for neuroblastoma, with high tolerability and fewer side effects than the current chemotherapy regimes. Read our story on the Understanding Animal Research site understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/research-…
We are delighted to announce one of our Business Engagement Fund projects. This collaboration between CRUK Scotland Inst and Oxford Drug Design will use #geneticallyengineered #mousemodels to validate new approaches to #cancertherapy nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/oxford-dr…
⏰Not long left to register for the 25th Beatson International Cancer Conference 2024 'Cancer Models: from Cages to Clinic' #BICC2024
🌍We have an incredible speaker line up coming from around the world
📅Registration closes: 31st May
🔗Register here: crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk/events/beatson…
In this month’s TS Digest, check out our interview with neuroscientist Anthony Isles Cardiff University, where he discussed genomic imprinting and its effects on the brain and behavior.
Read the interview here:
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Congratulations to Patrick Chinnery, member of our MRC MitoCluster and Executive Chair of Medical Research Council, who has been elected a Fellow of the The Royal Society:
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Thank you to organisers Wendy Bickmore, Liver Growth and Cancer Lab, Sara 💙💛 🇺🇦, The Mill Lab, Liz Patton & Owen Sansom 🏳️🌈 and everyone who joined us in Edinburgh for our #DMMgenetics Journal Meeting on Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy.
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How do we improve the impact of pre-clinical research. A panel discussion chaired by Pleasantine Mill The Mill Lab from the MRC NMGN Congenital Anomalies and with S.Wells of Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell as one of the panellists. Emily Sena introduced some of the issues we face such as bias, data sharing…
Congrats to our PhD student Lucía Luengo-Gutiérrez on the selection of her abstract for presentation at #DMMgenetics in Edinburgh! 🎓 #PhD MRC MBU MRC MitoCluster MRC National Mouse Genetics Network
