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11th September 2023 – Colourful Fungi

Posted on July 8, 2023 by TerryG

Jeanette Maddy will talk about the ways in which fungi present us with colour, how that colour can be useful to them and to us and about some research directions around fungal pigments. Depending on what fungi are available at … Continue reading →

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10th July 2023: Future Medicines – what have we learned from mRNA vaccines?

Posted on June 3, 2023 by jrsee

The Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved 20 million lives since the start of the pandemic. Two of these vaccines used a revolutionary biological approach to generating a medicine rapidly and flexibly (mRNA), and a revolutionary innovation in delivering … Continue reading →

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11th April 2022 – A New Approach to Developing Antivirals

Posted on January 27, 2022 by TerryG

Dr. Sam Jones is a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow in the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester where he heads up the Jones Lab which focuses on understanding material/virus interactions. Sam says “By understanding and controlling such interactions … Continue reading →

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14th March 2022 – Reduce, Replace, Refine

Posted on January 26, 2022 by TerryG

The path to eliminating animal experiments in drug discovery Professor Ian Wilson of the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London will pose a range of questions and lead the debate. Ian’s alternative subtitle for the talk is “How to get … Continue reading →

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8th November 2021- Getting personal – Individualizing Medical Care

Posted on November 24, 2021 by jrsee

Professor Ian Wilson, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London returns to update us on a talk he gave approximately 10 years ago.

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5th October 2020 (Zoom 7pm) – How Our Genome Affects Our Health

Posted on July 3, 2019 by jrsee

Dr. Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Reader in Human Genetics, University of Salford will be talking about the relationship between our genome and our health. Subsequent to the meeting, Arijit recorded his talk, and it can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_wx2cY7kNCf3rGDPnTLFIW3SizsBoyhD/view?usp=sharing

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