Golden Pipette won by Steffie Junius

Congratulations to Steffie Junius, the first PhD student to win the Golden Pipette!

Dr Carly Whyte had to relucantly hand over the Golden Pipette to Steffie Junius, in recognition of her pioneering experiments on regulatory T cell fate-mapping.

This means the Golden Pipette will stay in Leuven for now, but the Babraham Team is building up to take back the pipette in 2019!

Celebrating 10 years of the Liston lab!

FWO funding for Prof Susan Schlenner

Congratulations to Prof Susan Schlenner who secured FWO funding today for a four year project on regulatory T cells! FWO is highly competitive and it is very rare for an applicant to be successfully funded on their first independent application. A sign of future success!

The journals we publish in

Rethinking definitions of autoimmune disease

Why autoimmune diseases should be redefined by molecular pathway

By Lauren Martz, senior writer

 

The autoimmune field is dialing up its search for better biomarkers as it seeks to make the next step change from the targeted therapiesthat overtook blanket immunosuppressants. The question is whether autoimmunity might follow the lead of oncology and classify indications by molecular drivers rather than the symptoms or tissues involved... (read the full article).

 

From Biocentury Innovations

My coauthors

Meet the lab: Team Schlenner

Meet the lab: Team Humblet-Baron

Meet the lab: Team Babraham

Meet the lab: Team Neuroimmunology