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Profile: Wiebke Arlt
Wiebke Arlt University of Birmingham researcher Wiebke Arlt received many bouquets of flowers for establishing that male hormones affect women’s libidos. Now she’s developing a urine test for adrenal...
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Profile: Roger Patient
Roger Patient Could research into the extraordinary regenerative properties of the zebrafish heart one day help people who’ve had heart attacks? In an article taken from our Annual Review 2011/12,...
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Profile: Astrid Limb
The Institute of Ophthalmology’s Astrid Limb plans to retire once she’s used stem cells to restore the sight of a glaucoma patient. And she’s not far off, judging by the research she described to Sarah...
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Lindsay Hogg: Giving power to patients
Lindsay Hogg Lindsay Hogg, a science communicator turned public health researcher at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) in Glasgow, is out to give people the means to assess...
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Llamas, jungle fowl … and HIV
Robin Weiss in the lab he’s soon to close University College London virology professor Robin Weiss retires from research at the end of March after 30 years of continuous MRC funding. He tells Sarah...
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Philip Cohen: Driving drug development
Today the MRC is honouring two of our most eminent scientists with the MRC Millennium Medal, which recognises research that has led to significant health and economic benefits. In the first of our...
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Greg Winter: Pioneering antibody drugs
Today the MRC is honouring two of our most eminent scientists with the MRC Millennium Medal which recognises research that has led to significant health and economic benefits. In the second of our...
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Andrew Jackson: Listening to brain cells
Andrew Jackson is a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow in the Newcastle University Institute of Neuroscience. He told Katherine Nightingale about research, part-funded by the MRC, which...
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Pete Coffey: Driving stem cells to the clinic
Pete Coffey (Image copyright: UCL) Professor Pete Coffey, Professor of Cellular Therapies at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, is an MRC-funded researcher who is developing a...
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Remembering Mary Lyon and her impact on mouse genetics
Dr Mary Lyon, an important figure in the field of mouse genetics, died in December. Here Katherine Nightingale looks back on her career, from a ‘titular’ degree to her impact on generations of...
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