*Four-year PhD studentship available* 💻 AI platforms for blood cancer diagnosis ✍️ Funded by BBSRC/UKRI Doctoral Landscape Award (NILab) 👨‍🎓 Co-supervised by Prof Bryan Scotney (Ulster Uni SCEIS) and Dr Aaron Niblock (School of Medicine | Ulster University) ⏰ 14 April 2025 ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

Our final (?) PhD opportunity of the year has now opened for applicants(!), which seeks to exploit AI approaches to help understanding cellular signalling systems in infectious diseases and cancer! findaphd.com/phds/project/n…

This is a collaboration between our lab and EEECS colleague in AI Barry Devereux, as well as Kyle Matchett at Ulster University working on leukaemia. This PhD is supported by the NILabs, is fully funded but competitive and does have room for excellent international candidates.

🎉Congrats to Dr Kyle Matchett on winning the Distinguished Research award for the Faculty of Life & Health Sciences at Ulster University! 👏 A fantastic recognition of his research excellence & support for junior researchers. Best of luck in the next stage! #ResearchExcellence

We are very proud to announce the launch of MAGIC-I, a new 5 yr project harnessing the power of genetics, genomics & big data to inform future childhood cancer care. University College Dublin Children's Health Ireland HSE Ireland Illumina UCD Research UCD Medicine Precision Oncology Ireland ucd.ie/sbi/news/newsf…

Congratulations to Prof. Owen Smith and the broader MAGIC-I team! Delighted to be at launch of this amazing new all-island cancer research programme. Well done all concerned ⁦Systems Biology Ire⁩ ⁦Precision Oncology Ireland⁩ ⁦University College Dublin⁩ - ⁦All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI)⁩ ⁦NCCP⁩

📣 Today we have officially welcomed Dr Ari Melnick, the new Director of the Josep Carreras Institute. 💬 "I see us as a team united in our purpose to eradicate blood cancers." He has reaffirmed his commitment to scientific progress and collaborative growth in front of #IJC

We celebrate our Faculty winners of the Distinguished Research Award, recognising exceptional leadership potential and international impact. 👏 Congratulations to Dr Kyle Matchett, Dr Karen Bonner and Dr Dermot Kerr. #ProudOfUU

Congratulations to Rachel Devenney who passed her PhD viva yesterday! Thanks to External, Liz Ryan (University Of Limerick), Internal, LeesMurdock_Diane (Biomedical Sciences), and Chair, Professor David Gibson (School of Medicine | Ulster University). Also, to co-supervisors, Rachelle Irwin and colum walsh. Well done, Dr Devenney!

Excellent Cancer Research Workshop supported by Children’s Cancer Unit Charity. Health Minister Mike Nesbitt and range of speakers described the need for more research dedicated to children’s cancer and the drive for more all-island research and collaboration opportunities 🤩

.Personalised Medicine Centre Introducing Dr Rachel Devenney who recently passed her PhD Viva 🥳 Massive Congratulations! Rachel works in the field of #AcuteMyeloidLeukaemia, #BloodCancer 🩸 You can keep up to date with Rachel’s research here: 📢 pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/rac…

Well done to All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI) PhD student Sophie Carlin on a great talk at Ulster University Festival of PhD Research yesterday! Sophie is currently completing a year at Jonathan Bond lab at University College Dublin before returning to School of Medicine | Ulster University Personalised Medicine Centre for her final year.

🚨New guidance alert! Well done Dr Erin Byrd for leading the development of Building Active Schools in Special Education, the first-of-its-kind framework promoting a whole-school approach to physical activity in special education settings👏 Read more: ulster.ac.uk/news/2025/june…

It is a great honor and greater responsibility to take over the chair of the European Hematology Association research committee from Brian Huntly and Ruud Delwel. Together with Dominique Bonnet I will lead the committee dealing with all aspects of research at European Hematology Association.

Dear CLRUK community! The 2025 Annual meeting will be held in York on 11th Sep. We encourage students and postdocs to present their work and ECRs to volunteer as session chairs. Hope to see you all in beautiful York. Register here 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Register today for the Virtual Cell Challenge and use AI to solve one of biology’s most complex problems. Announced in Cell, the competition is hosted by Arc Institute and sponsored by NVIDIA, 10x Genomics, and Ultima Genomics.

Huge congratulations to Rachel Devenney who graduated with her PhD this week! A fantastic student, who worked on an ambitious project focused on co-mutations with mutant NRAS in leukaemia Personalised Medicine Centre School of Medicine | Ulster University. Thanks to co-supervisors Rachelle Irwin and colum walsh.

Delighted to have our preprint led by Peng Lyu up: Genetic variation reveals a homeotic long noncoding RNA that modulates human hematopoietic stem cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 below ...

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

New #SBIblog from Sophie Carlin, an AICRIstart student with the Bond Group @ SBI & the Matchett Group @ Ulster Uni. Hear how this cross-border research programme enhanced Sophie's PhD experience. ucd.ie/sbi/news/blog/… All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI) Jonathan Bond Kyle Matchett Personalised Medicine Centre