Laura Itzhaki
@lauraitzhaki.bsky.social
Passionate about protein engineering. Department of Pharmacology and Newnham College Cambridge
Deadlines coming up for three AstraZeneca-funded PhD studentships - please do consider applying
The Department has posted a range of new funded studentships on the Departmental website: www.phar.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Please note that each studentship has an individual deadline, with the deadlines within 31 October - 2 December
#Studentship #Research #Phd
Please note that each studentship has an individual deadline, with the deadlines within 31 October - 2 December
#Studentship #Research #Phd
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Deadlines coming up for three AstraZeneca-funded PhD studentships - please do consider applying
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
Super proud of Nora, our amazing PhD student, for being awarded a poster prize at the GBM Compact 2025 conference "Focus on Condensate Biology"!! Congrats to all the awardees! @phar.cam.ac.uk @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social
The GBM Compact - Focus on Condensate Biology poster session has 5 winners: Miriam Linsenmeier (FEBS Open Bio award), Patrick McCall and Michal Kacper Bialobrzewski (sponsored by De Gruyter Brill). Two book vouchers from Wiley were awarded to Saskia Hutten and Nora Haanaes! Congratulations!
September 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Super proud of Nora, our amazing PhD student, for being awarded a poster prize at the GBM Compact 2025 conference "Focus on Condensate Biology"!! Congrats to all the awardees! @phar.cam.ac.uk @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social
Fantastic collaboration and very happy to see the paper published!
🧬 Engineered nanobodies binding and stabilizing cancer-mutant p16INK4a—without blocking its CDK6 interaction or cell-cycle arrest function, in press at Structure from Endicott @nucancer.bsky.social and @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social groups!
📖 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
📖 www.cell.com/structure/fu...
Nanobodies restore stability to cancer-associated mutants of tumor suppressor protein p16INK4a
Burbidge et al. characterize nanobodies against the tumor suppressor and CDK4/6 inhibitor
p16INK4a in vitro and in cells. They show the nanobodies restore mutant p16INK4a stability.
Nanobody binding t...
www.cell.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Fantastic collaboration and very happy to see the paper published!
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
Great day! Well done to all those from our lab who presented, really proud of all of you and the progress you’ve made 😃
Today saw our final year PhD students and MPhil students give talks on their research, whilst 2nd years presented posters of their progress so far 😀
A great day showing the diversity of research in the Department - congratulations to poster and talk prize winners!
A great day showing the diversity of research in the Department - congratulations to poster and talk prize winners!
July 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Great day! Well done to all those from our lab who presented, really proud of all of you and the progress you’ve made 😃
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
Delighted that our recent publication with @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social and the Woolfson group has been featured by the American Peptide Society americanpeptidesociety.org/aps-news/gra...
Grafted Coiled Coils
Grafted Coiled Coils
americanpeptidesociety.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Delighted that our recent publication with @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social and the Woolfson group has been featured by the American Peptide Society americanpeptidesociety.org/aps-news/gra...
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
An amazing day of high quality talks and posters - well done everyone and a shout out to Mateo Hoare (our PhD student) for a Talk Prize ❤️ @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social
Today saw our final year PhD students and MPhil students give talks on their research, whilst 2nd years presented posters of their progress so far 😀
A great day showing the diversity of research in the Department - congratulations to poster and talk prize winners!
A great day showing the diversity of research in the Department - congratulations to poster and talk prize winners!
July 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
An amazing day of high quality talks and posters - well done everyone and a shout out to Mateo Hoare (our PhD student) for a Talk Prize ❤️ @lauraitzhaki.bsky.social
Congratulations @wtklab.bsky.social Very exciting
Could this be the future of cancer prevention?
Walid Khaled, a new ERC Advanced Grant recipient @cam.ac.uk, will work on a preventive vaccine for breast cancer.
Learn more 👉 buff.ly/s6cBCwL
#ERCAdG #CancerResearch #FrontierResearch @wtklab.bsky.social
Walid Khaled, a new ERC Advanced Grant recipient @cam.ac.uk, will work on a preventive vaccine for breast cancer.
Learn more 👉 buff.ly/s6cBCwL
#ERCAdG #CancerResearch #FrontierResearch @wtklab.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Congratulations @wtklab.bsky.social Very exciting
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
We were delighted to host the first-ever ‘Roving Researcher Showcase’ event in Cambridge!
Engaging talks, insightful discussions, and opportunities to connect with #RovingResearchers
More to come soon!
Read more about the scheme: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/culture-and-...
Engaging talks, insightful discussions, and opportunities to connect with #RovingResearchers
More to come soon!
Read more about the scheme: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/culture-and-...
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We were delighted to host the first-ever ‘Roving Researcher Showcase’ event in Cambridge!
Engaging talks, insightful discussions, and opportunities to connect with #RovingResearchers
More to come soon!
Read more about the scheme: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/culture-and-...
Engaging talks, insightful discussions, and opportunities to connect with #RovingResearchers
More to come soon!
Read more about the scheme: www.bio.cam.ac.uk/culture-and-...
Reposted by Laura Itzhaki
We’re thrilled to see six ERC Advanced Grants awarded to our talented researchers, supporting groundbreaking research in the biological sciences! Congratulations to all!
Read more about the grants: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Read more about the grants: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Cambridge researchers awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council
Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of grants
www.cam.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We’re thrilled to see six ERC Advanced Grants awarded to our talented researchers, supporting groundbreaking research in the biological sciences! Congratulations to all!
Read more about the grants: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Read more about the grants: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Fantastic collaboration!
Delighted to share our newest publication on Coiled-Coil PPI modulators with The Woolfson and Itkhaki Labs in ACS Chem. Biol. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Grafted Coiled-Coil Peptides as Multivalent Scaffolds for Protein Recognition
Self-assembled peptides are promising templates for the design of inhibitors of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) because they can be endowed with affinity- and selectivity-defining amino acids alon...
pubs.acs.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Fantastic collaboration!