It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists.
🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Our 2025 GI retreat prize winners are:
🎉Social Engagement: Giada Vanacore and Shay Melamed
🙂 Research Culture: Theresa Gross-Thebing
🙌 Good Citizen: Sam Banjo
🔬Image Competition: @geraldinejowett.bsky.social
🌳Green: Tamara Romero
Thank you all for your great community spirit and positive vibes!

✨ Congratulations to our amazing Postdoc @geraldinejowett.bsky.social – winner of this year’s Image Competition! 🏆🧬
Want to know more about the research we do? 👀 Check it out over at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

🌟Congratulations to Azim Surani @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk for receiving the 2025 Kyoto Prize - Basic Sciences. Azim's research fundamentally advanced our understanding of developmental biology🔬🧬 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/kyoto-prize-...
#KyotoPrize #AzimSurani #DevelopmentalBiology

🎉 Congratulations to the Rawlins Lab on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant for their LungDeCode project! 🫁🔬The project lays the foundation for future human lung regeneration.
#ERCGrant #GurdonInstitute #SBS_Cambridge

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. If caught early, antibiotic treatment is usually effective but treatment delay can lead to long term debilitating symptoms. Prevention is better than cure, please read here!

We are looking forward to @schierlab.bsky.social talk tomorrow at 11 AM in our Tea Room

We're looking forward to host Professor Merixtell Huch back @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social on Tuesday, 29 April at 11AM.

Congratulations to Mien Chew (Rawlins Lab) who won 1st prize and Ana Hernandez Rodriguez (Xiong Lab) who won runner up for the PhD poster presentations at the Biologist100 conference 🧬
Thank you to the organisers: biologist.bsky.social and bsdb.bsky.social

Join us on Monday, 17 March at 4pm for drinks and nibbles and meet Prof. Christine Holt, Professor Emerita of Developmental Neuroscience. Christine will share with us her journey and the challenges she faced. This event will kick off the Couch Talks, an initiative organized by the WIDE Committee.

@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social We celebrate the contributions of women in science and beyond. We recognise women who inspire, lead and push the boundaries of discovery every day.
Together we work towards a future where science thrives through diversity, inclusion and equality.

#InternationalWomensDay

Cambridge Festival 2025 - 25 March 6pm
Join Prof. Emma Rawlins 👩🏻‍🔬🫁 @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
and her team 👩🏻‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬 for an evening of drinks 🍷🍻🍕 nibbles, discussion and discovery 🔬🧪. Come for the science, stay for the conversation 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏽‍♂️—don’t miss out on this exciting event!

📢 We are delighted to host
@mhaniffa.bsky.social on Thursday for our Gurdon Institute Seminar Series, hosted by Emma Rawlins and @sumrubayin.bsky.social

All welcome 😀
🗓️ Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 11 am
🎙️ The tapestry of human prenatal immunity
📍Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road CB2 1QN