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The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
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The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine funds high quality biomedical researchers through annual prize grants.
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Triple-negative breast cancer in biomed news this week🏥

So perfect timing to feature #ListerFellow @stephensammut.bsky.social 🤩He's hunting clinical biomarkers and using AI to predict treatment response from immune activation.

Repost and read ⤵️
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December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Starting to stress about Christmas shopping? 🎁 🎄 🎅

Discover how the Lister stays steady through every season. No panic buying. No last minute dash to the market. 🦌 🛷

Just an "all weather" investment strategy 📈

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December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Former #ListerFellow Simon Draper's lab identified the conserved RH5 antigen of the malaria parasite just before Christmas 2010. Last year saw safety and efficacy results of the RH5.1/Matrix-M vaccine 🦟

A long road? This and other tales in our annual report.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Kudos to members of our Scientific Committee on @clarivate.com's Highly Cited Researchers 2025 🤩

🥇 Cyrus Cooper @unisouthampton.bsky.social
🥇 Aroon Hingorani @ucl.ac.uk
🥇 Dame Fiona Powrie @kiroxford.bsky.social
🥇 Iain McInnes @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

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November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Biting your nails? On tenterhooks? What will today's Budget bring?😬

Whatever the weather, our careful financial stewardship means we're ready🌦️Discover how our investment strategy keeps support for bold biomedical research on track ⤵️

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November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Impressive number of Lister community members in
@clarivate.com's Highly Cited Researchers 2025. Our first shoutout to current #ListerFellows

🥇 Marco di Antonio @diantoniogroup.bsky.social
🥇 Ravi Gupta

Congrats on your highly influential research 👏

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Ravi Gupta is looking directly at the camera, the lab background is blurred. He is wearing a dark jacket and blue open necked shirt. Head and shoulders shot of Marco di Antonio. He is looking directly at the camera with his shoulders slightly angled. He is wearing a pale open necked shirt.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Enjoying House of Guinness on @netflixuk.bsky.social?

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, gave 250k in the 1890s to help the Lister get established and grow.

Hear from namesake and kin the late Edward Guinness, Governing Body member 1968-2001.

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November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🧠 Could AI learn more like the human brain? Srikanth Ramaswamy discovers how brain structure and neuromodulation shape learning and memory. Read it now 👇
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@srikipedia.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

🖱️Follow now for more #ListerFellow news!
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Not from Tron or a psychedelic wallpaper. This exquisite pic reveals chromatin at base-pair resolution, captured by #ListerFellow James Davies and collaborators🤩
"For the first time, we can see how the genome's control switches are physically arranged inside cells." @jojdavies.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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At the edge of charming Malham, North Yorks, you’ll find The Lister Arms Hotel.

Any connection with our namesake? Comment, repost and help us solve this mystery! ⏬

And what’s the link with Lister trustee Julian Blow? Find out in our 2024 Annual Report
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October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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More from former #ListerFellow James Nathan and collaborators on mechanisms behind the long-term effects of hypoxia on neutrophil reprogramming. Study shows role of histone 3 clipping and persistent loss of the activating histone mark H3K4me3 in progenitor cells.
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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What made #ListerFellow Kelly Nguyen pivot from chemistry to structural biology? Just one seminar from Nobel winner Tom Steitz and she was hooked! Now she's at the forefront of telomerase research.
👉 Read her story lister-institute.org.uk/in-conversat...
♻️ Repost and inspire others too!
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Follow all the twists and turns. Former #ListerFellow
@simondraper.bsky.social discovers malaria’s Achille’s heel in 2010, now the vaccine RH5.1/Matrix-M has demonstrated safety and efficacy in trials.
One epic adventure 👀 Out now in our 2024 Annual Report ⤵️
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October 14, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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With motor neurone disease (MND, aka ALS) hitting the headlines, here's a story about how two #ListerFellows @patanilab.bsky.social and @diantoniogroup.bsky.social teamed up to investigate how RNA might start aggregations and trigger disease.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Behind every #ListerPrize winner at @officialuom.bsky.social is a nurturing community of Fellows giving back, sharing advice, and seeding new ideas 🌱
🫶 A connected, caring community builds confidence and makes a difference.
Read the story now ⤵️
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October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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ICYMI 👇
In June, former #ListerFellow Prof Daniel Smith published first study using data from 1.5M Our Future Health volunteers. Significantly higher self-reported diagnosis of affective disorders in people with autoimmune conditions v. general population. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Black and white head and shoulder photo of Professor Daniel Smith.
September 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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“It is your active participation that makes the Lister Institute what it is: a catalyst for scientific excellence and boldness, and a home for those who believe in the power of research to change lives.” John Iredale, Lister Institute Chair.

Grab the highlights from our annual meeting now 👇👇
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🤔Former chair of our Scientific Committee Prof Julian Blow claims to be one of @edinburghuni.bsky.social's longest-standing medical students. Really?

This tidbit and other surprises in our 2024 annual report lister-institute.org.uk/wp-content/u...
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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As Peer Review Week draws to its close, sincere thanks to our Scientific Committee. Your rigorous scrutiny of Prize applications ensures we support stellar scientists leading bold, curiosity-driven biomedical research 😍
⬇️ Get a sneek peek behind the process
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September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Frantically refining and polishing an application to #ListerPrize2026? 😮
Learn from others and find your unique angle⤵️
✅ How to apply lister-institute.org.uk/how-to-apply/
✅ What it meant to me lister-institute.org.uk/what-it-mean...
✅ Video reflections lister-institute.org.uk/lister-refle...
September 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The annual meeting highlights how the Lister is so unique - such a wonderful community of kind, committed people. Stellar scientists, of course. But also deeply passionate about nurturing teams, opening doors, and enabling others to develop skills and meaningful careers. Thank you.
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Huge thanks all our #ListerFellows and Members for this year's annual meeting. We broke many records:
📈 8 #ListerPrize2025 winners
🏆100+ delegates
🏆30+ Summer Studentship posters, filling the college cloisters
⛈️ Intense downpours (yet dry for our final evening rooftop reception!)
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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And special mentions to all our summer students. The cloisters were quite the setting for our evening poster session. Projects from across biomedical disciplines, shared with panache!

If you're looking for stellar PhD students with impressive research experience... Here they are ⤵️
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Thank you @beckyneuro.bsky.social @therad-lab.bsky.social and @thav-lab.bsky.social for kicking off our annual meeting with such inspiring insights from your research. Impressive examples of career-long commitment to a cause, opportunistic curiosity and always aspiration for clinical application 👏
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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John Iredale kicking off our annual meeting. Auditorium is packed 😀 Record attendance!
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM