Tackling COVID-19: Professor Gordon Dougan
16 July 2020“In many parts of the world people still live with the daily threat of diseases like cholera, typhoid, and malaria. In reality COVID is just...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Estée Török
09 July 2020Long hours running COVID-19 vaccine and drugs trials have left little time for Estée Török to contemplate her postponed wedding. With over 20 years' clinical research...
Eight Cambridge researchers elected as members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
07 July 2020Eight Cambridge researchers - six from the University of Cambridge and two from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - are among the 63 scientists...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sharath Srinivasan
25 June 2020“Without trust, we don’t flatten the curve,” says Sharath Srinivasan, whose work in developing countries has given him an acute insight into how people’s worldviews...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Ravi Gupta
18 June 2020“This virus is probably going to be circulating for years - it will take a long time to sort out.” In a building that has...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sarah Caddy
04 June 2020Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Sarah Caddy was conducting research on a number of different viruses. “I was looking at how antibodies can neutralise rotavirus and...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor James Wood
28 May 2020“Cambridge’s infectious diseases community is making a huge contribution to tackling the pandemic,” says Professor James Wood. He leads several large-scale programmes at the University that rely...
Professor Andrew Fabian awarded Kavli Prize
27 May 2020Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes. ...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden
14 May 2020“The psychology of pandemics was not on my research agenda, but I can tell you one thing: it is now,” says Dr Sander van der...
“It’s been very humbling”: returning to the clinic during the pandemic
04 May 2020It’s been decades since Professor Paul Fletcher last donned scrubs, but he now finds himself helping treat psychiatric patients, sometimes in full protective gear, and...