Pathology at Cambridge
@campathology.bsky.social
The Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge
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Say hello to our wonderful Infection and Immunity Research Theme Leads! New Lead Nerea shares some thoughts on the plans for the Theme moving forward. #BiologicalSciences
@cambiochem.bsky.social @camvetschool.bsky.social @campathology.bsky.social
@cambiochem.bsky.social @camvetschool.bsky.social @campathology.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Say hello to our wonderful Infection and Immunity Research Theme Leads! New Lead Nerea shares some thoughts on the plans for the Theme moving forward. #BiologicalSciences
@cambiochem.bsky.social @camvetschool.bsky.social @campathology.bsky.social
@cambiochem.bsky.social @camvetschool.bsky.social @campathology.bsky.social
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📢 We are hiring! We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship to study how RNA viruses steal ribosomes and reprogram host translation, thanks to funding from @campathology.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social! Come join us!
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢 We are hiring! We have a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship to study how RNA viruses steal ribosomes and reprogram host translation, thanks to funding from @campathology.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social! Come join us!
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
Full details: www.path.cam.ac.uk/graduate/ful...
There is no credible evidence that vaccines disrupt tumour suppressors or drive any process that results in cancer, says @viropractor.bsky.social
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bit.ly/3KdGFuS
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bit.ly/3KdGFuS
September 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There is no credible evidence that vaccines disrupt tumour suppressors or drive any process that results in cancer, says @viropractor.bsky.social
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bit.ly/3KdGFuS
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bit.ly/3KdGFuS
We are hiring! 🔭🔬
We would like to share a very exciting Job Opportunity at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for a Research Assistant / Research Associate. (Fixed Term)
For more information or to apply click here:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
We would like to share a very exciting Job Opportunity at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for a Research Assistant / Research Associate. (Fixed Term)
For more information or to apply click here:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
September 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We are hiring! 🔭🔬
We would like to share a very exciting Job Opportunity at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for a Research Assistant / Research Associate. (Fixed Term)
For more information or to apply click here:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
We would like to share a very exciting Job Opportunity at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for a Research Assistant / Research Associate. (Fixed Term)
For more information or to apply click here:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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September is #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth, so we caught up with @sdt36suzanne.bsky.social, Professor of Childhood Cancer Biology @campathology.bsky.social.
She talks about her research into why children get cancer and how that question has taken her around the world.🔬
youtu.be/f2yxccFfBk8?...
She talks about her research into why children get cancer and how that question has taken her around the world.🔬
youtu.be/f2yxccFfBk8?...
Professor Suzanne Turner
Research Stories: Remarkable people, groundbreaking work, global impact.
In this series, our researchers talk about their work and the difference it is making around the world, from tackling climate…
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
September is #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth, so we caught up with @sdt36suzanne.bsky.social, Professor of Childhood Cancer Biology @campathology.bsky.social.
She talks about her research into why children get cancer and how that question has taken her around the world.🔬
youtu.be/f2yxccFfBk8?...
She talks about her research into why children get cancer and how that question has taken her around the world.🔬
youtu.be/f2yxccFfBk8?...
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Dr Perla Pucci, paediatric cancer researcher at @campathology.bsky.social, talks about one of the benefits of Cambridge: specialising in niche, cutting edge research in your department while also benefiting from a variety of perspectives and experiences at College.
youtu.be/GEUVGzqKGCM?...
youtu.be/GEUVGzqKGCM?...
Dr Perla Pucci
Research Stories: Remarkable people, groundbreaking work, global impact.
In this series, our researchers talk about their work and the difference it is making around the world, from tackling climate…
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dr Perla Pucci, paediatric cancer researcher at @campathology.bsky.social, talks about one of the benefits of Cambridge: specialising in niche, cutting edge research in your department while also benefiting from a variety of perspectives and experiences at College.
youtu.be/GEUVGzqKGCM?...
youtu.be/GEUVGzqKGCM?...
A new protein-based tool - courtesy of @atomicvirology.bsky.social - is boosting the fight against Oropouche virus.
Find out more ➡️https://bit.ly/45pjia2
#oropouchevirus #slothfever
Find out more ➡️https://bit.ly/45pjia2
#oropouchevirus #slothfever
August 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A new protein-based tool - courtesy of @atomicvirology.bsky.social - is boosting the fight against Oropouche virus.
Find out more ➡️https://bit.ly/45pjia2
#oropouchevirus #slothfever
Find out more ➡️https://bit.ly/45pjia2
#oropouchevirus #slothfever
Are “exosome facials” the future of beauty — or a dangerous trend?
Researcher James Edgar warns on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health that unregulated exosome treatments marketed for anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation may pose serious health risks.
🔗 www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/are-aes...
#exosomes
Researcher James Edgar warns on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health that unregulated exosome treatments marketed for anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation may pose serious health risks.
🔗 www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/are-aes...
#exosomes
July 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Are “exosome facials” the future of beauty — or a dangerous trend?
Researcher James Edgar warns on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health that unregulated exosome treatments marketed for anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation may pose serious health risks.
🔗 www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/are-aes...
#exosomes
Researcher James Edgar warns on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health that unregulated exosome treatments marketed for anti-ageing and skin rejuvenation may pose serious health risks.
🔗 www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/are-aes...
#exosomes
Turns out our “resident” immune cells are more like Airbnb guests than homeowners 🧳🧬
A new preprint by @labliston.bsky.social shows that lymphocytes check in and out of tissues much more frequently than previously thought—the gut and liver are the hotspots. 🧠🛏️🧪
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A new preprint by @labliston.bsky.social shows that lymphocytes check in and out of tissues much more frequently than previously thought—the gut and liver are the hotspots. 🧠🛏️🧪
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Turns out our “resident” immune cells are more like Airbnb guests than homeowners 🧳🧬
A new preprint by @labliston.bsky.social shows that lymphocytes check in and out of tissues much more frequently than previously thought—the gut and liver are the hotspots. 🧠🛏️🧪
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A new preprint by @labliston.bsky.social shows that lymphocytes check in and out of tissues much more frequently than previously thought—the gut and liver are the hotspots. 🧠🛏️🧪
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Mums, a young survivor & researchers met in Cambridge to fight ALCL—a rare cancer.
From grief to action, their bond is reshaping research & care. This is what global solidarity, love & science can do. 💜
➡️ bit.ly/3U20MOo
@sdt36suzanne.bsky.social
#RareCancer #HopeInAction #PatientVoices
From grief to action, their bond is reshaping research & care. This is what global solidarity, love & science can do. 💜
➡️ bit.ly/3U20MOo
@sdt36suzanne.bsky.social
#RareCancer #HopeInAction #PatientVoices
July 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Mums, a young survivor & researchers met in Cambridge to fight ALCL—a rare cancer.
From grief to action, their bond is reshaping research & care. This is what global solidarity, love & science can do. 💜
➡️ bit.ly/3U20MOo
@sdt36suzanne.bsky.social
#RareCancer #HopeInAction #PatientVoices
From grief to action, their bond is reshaping research & care. This is what global solidarity, love & science can do. 💜
➡️ bit.ly/3U20MOo
@sdt36suzanne.bsky.social
#RareCancer #HopeInAction #PatientVoices
Got a transplant? It turns out that you might be able to tell beforehand if the COVID vaccine will work for you. Scientists used immune profiles + machine learning to figure it out.
An excellent summary ➡️ bsky.app/profile/labl...
An excellent summary ➡️ bsky.app/profile/labl...
July 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Got a transplant? It turns out that you might be able to tell beforehand if the COVID vaccine will work for you. Scientists used immune profiles + machine learning to figure it out.
An excellent summary ➡️ bsky.app/profile/labl...
An excellent summary ➡️ bsky.app/profile/labl...
How does HPV turn from a silent infection into cervical cancer?
New research by @konstanze1.bsky.social shows that gene deregulation—especially of E6 & E7—drives cancer risk in the cervix’s transformation zone.
Full study: doi.org/10.3390/v170...
#HPV #CervicalCancer
New research by @konstanze1.bsky.social shows that gene deregulation—especially of E6 & E7—drives cancer risk in the cervix’s transformation zone.
Full study: doi.org/10.3390/v170...
#HPV #CervicalCancer
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How does HPV turn from a silent infection into cervical cancer?
New research by @konstanze1.bsky.social shows that gene deregulation—especially of E6 & E7—drives cancer risk in the cervix’s transformation zone.
Full study: doi.org/10.3390/v170...
#HPV #CervicalCancer
New research by @konstanze1.bsky.social shows that gene deregulation—especially of E6 & E7—drives cancer risk in the cervix’s transformation zone.
Full study: doi.org/10.3390/v170...
#HPV #CervicalCancer
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We have a new paper out at npj Vaccines!
The study tackles the problematic question of why #transplant patients responded so poorly to the #COVID #vaccine. While most people had great antibodies from a single dose, only half of patients responded after three!
🧵1/6
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The study tackles the problematic question of why #transplant patients responded so poorly to the #COVID #vaccine. While most people had great antibodies from a single dose, only half of patients responded after three!
🧵1/6
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Systems vaccinology identifies immunological correlates of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine response in solid organ transplant recipients - npj Vaccines
npj Vaccines - Systems vaccinology identifies immunological correlates of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine response in solid organ transplant recipients
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We have a new paper out at npj Vaccines!
The study tackles the problematic question of why #transplant patients responded so poorly to the #COVID #vaccine. While most people had great antibodies from a single dose, only half of patients responded after three!
🧵1/6
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The study tackles the problematic question of why #transplant patients responded so poorly to the #COVID #vaccine. While most people had great antibodies from a single dose, only half of patients responded after three!
🧵1/6
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New from the Koronakis Lab: PAK proteins can still influence cell shape even when switched off. 🧬
Drug-inhibited PAKs altered actin structure via unexpected PIP3 buildup—changing how we think about targeted cancer therapies.
➡️ bit.ly/4nqgqk2
#CellBiology #CancerResearch
Drug-inhibited PAKs altered actin structure via unexpected PIP3 buildup—changing how we think about targeted cancer therapies.
➡️ bit.ly/4nqgqk2
#CellBiology #CancerResearch
July 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New from the Koronakis Lab: PAK proteins can still influence cell shape even when switched off. 🧬
Drug-inhibited PAKs altered actin structure via unexpected PIP3 buildup—changing how we think about targeted cancer therapies.
➡️ bit.ly/4nqgqk2
#CellBiology #CancerResearch
Drug-inhibited PAKs altered actin structure via unexpected PIP3 buildup—changing how we think about targeted cancer therapies.
➡️ bit.ly/4nqgqk2
#CellBiology #CancerResearch
🔬👨👧 Can you be a full-time scientist and a fully present parent? @labliston.bsky.social says yes—and lives it. As an immunologist, author, and equal co-parent, he’s challenging old norms in academia and making space for caregiving in STEM.
Read his story:
www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...
Read his story:
www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...
Adrian Liston — Mothers in Science
SciDad journey of Adrian Liston, PhD, Professor of pathology; father of one, and academic father. Adrian’s story offers a look into equal parenting as a guiding principle for navigating both scientifi...
www.mothersinscience.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🔬👨👧 Can you be a full-time scientist and a fully present parent? @labliston.bsky.social says yes—and lives it. As an immunologist, author, and equal co-parent, he’s challenging old norms in academia and making space for caregiving in STEM.
Read his story:
www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...
Read his story:
www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...
PaCIFiC Facility launch marks a milestone in Cryo-Imaging at Cambridge
➡️ www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/pacific...
➡️ www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/pacific...
May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
PaCIFiC Facility launch marks a milestone in Cryo-Imaging at Cambridge
➡️ www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/pacific...
➡️ www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/pacific...
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Best of Luck to Matt Morgan rowing for Cambridge in Goldie today at the boat race 2025. Matt is one of our PhD students at the Dept of Pathology. @campathology.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Best of Luck to Matt Morgan rowing for Cambridge in Goldie today at the boat race 2025. Matt is one of our PhD students at the Dept of Pathology. @campathology.bsky.social
Our expert, Dr James Edgar, warns of serious health risks of using exosome products harvested from human donors in luxury beauty treatments in the UK.
Banned biological products harvested from human cells could carry serious health risks.
@theguardian.com ➡️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Banned biological products harvested from human cells could carry serious health risks.
@theguardian.com ➡️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Beauty clinics in UK offering banned treatments derived from human cells
Experts warn of serious health risks of using exosome products that are harvested from human donors
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our expert, Dr James Edgar, warns of serious health risks of using exosome products harvested from human donors in luxury beauty treatments in the UK.
Banned biological products harvested from human cells could carry serious health risks.
@theguardian.com ➡️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Banned biological products harvested from human cells could carry serious health risks.
@theguardian.com ➡️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Excited to be hosting "our grow your own protein crystal" at the Cambridge Festival @campathology.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Excited to be hosting "our grow your own protein crystal" at the Cambridge Festival @campathology.bsky.social
Our #FamilyDay is well under way! So many fun learning activities come and join us! #camfest2025
March 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our #FamilyDay is well under way! So many fun learning activities come and join us! #camfest2025
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Great talk by @danandviruses.bsky.social about his PhD work on HSV infection in neurons at the @campathology.bsky.social annual symposium 💯🤓
March 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Great talk by @danandviruses.bsky.social about his PhD work on HSV infection in neurons at the @campathology.bsky.social annual symposium 💯🤓
Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis - a study led by Professor Liz Soilleux finds algorithm is as effective as a pathologist in detecting the disease, and much quicker.
➡️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
➡️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis
Cambridge study finds algorithm is as effective as a pathologist in detecting disease – and much quicker
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis - a study led by Professor Liz Soilleux finds algorithm is as effective as a pathologist in detecting the disease, and much quicker.
➡️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
➡️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Big thanks to the team at @campathology.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social @i3suporto.bsky.social, plus everyone who contributed to the project! Here is hoping some of these #muteins make it to the clinic! 11/11
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Directed disruption of IL2 aggregation and receptor binding sites produces designer biologics with enhanced specificity and improved production capacity
The pleotropic nature of interleukin-2 (IL2) has allowed it to be used as both a pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory therapeutic agent, through pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Big thanks to the team at @campathology.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social @i3suporto.bsky.social, plus everyone who contributed to the project! Here is hoping some of these #muteins make it to the clinic! 11/11
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new study published in @nature.com by Dr Jie Yang of @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social has uncovered a novel mechanism by which aspirin inhibits cancer metastasis by strengthening the body’s immune response.
➡️ Read now: www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...
➡️ Read now: www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...
March 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A new study published in @nature.com by Dr Jie Yang of @roychoudhurilab.bsky.social has uncovered a novel mechanism by which aspirin inhibits cancer metastasis by strengthening the body’s immune response.
➡️ Read now: www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...
➡️ Read now: www.path.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb...
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Upcoming seminar:
🎓Dr Bidesh Mahata, @campathology.bsky.social
📢"Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function"
📅 4-5PM, Thurs 6 Mar
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
#MedSky #AcademicSky 🧪
🎓Dr Bidesh Mahata, @campathology.bsky.social
📢"Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function"
📅 4-5PM, Thurs 6 Mar
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
#MedSky #AcademicSky 🧪
February 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Upcoming seminar:
🎓Dr Bidesh Mahata, @campathology.bsky.social
📢"Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function"
📅 4-5PM, Thurs 6 Mar
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
#MedSky #AcademicSky 🧪
🎓Dr Bidesh Mahata, @campathology.bsky.social
📢"Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function"
📅 4-5PM, Thurs 6 Mar
📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
@uniofcam.bsky.social
#MedSky #AcademicSky 🧪