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News University of Birmingham haematology expert awarded OBE Haematologist Professor Paul Moss has been awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to immunotherapy and COVID-19 research
27 August 2019 Removing cancer's protective barrier could boost immunotherapy treatments University of Birmingham scientists may have found a way to pull down the protective wall that surrounds tumours, potentially re-exposing them to the killing power of the immune system and immunotherapy treatments.
19 July 2019 Award success for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences at the University of Birmingham's Founders' Awards The College of Medical and Dental Sciences is delighted to announce that at the University's Awards for Excellence 2019 colleagues from across the College were awarded three of the evening's five awards.
16 July 2019 Crohn's & Colitis UK fund new Birmingham research into an app to monitor patient health Professor Subrata Ghosh has been awarded new funding to study the IBD Disk – an app for people to monitor Crohn's or Colitis and share their findings with health professionals.
15 July 2019 Birmingham researcher awarded MRC Career Development Award Dr Rebecca Drummond, a fungal immunologist and Birmingham Fellow, has been awarded a five-year Career Development Award (CDA) from the MRC to further her research into fungal immunology.
10 July 2019 MW-ATTC celebrates successful first year The Midland-Wales Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre has produced a newsletter detailing key updates over its first year.
04 July 2019 BactiVac receives research award at the prestigious Antibiotic Guardian Awards 2019 The University of Birmingham-hosted BactiVac Network attended the Antibiotic Guardian Awards and received an award under the Research category on 27 June 2019 in Solihull.
03 June 2019 Breastfeeding mums' milk can transfer life-long protection against infection to their babies Mothers' breast milk can provide protection against infection that lasts for life, finds new research in mice by an international team of scientists including experts at the University of Birmingham.
15 May 2019 Cancer Research UK Birmingham Centre awarded £3.8 million to transform clinical academic training Significant funding of over £3.8 million has been awarded to the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Birmingham Centre, based at the University of Birmingham, to develop its clinical academic training programme.
02 May 2019 BactiVac shortlisted for international Antibiotic Guardian 2019 Awards The University of Birmingham-hosted BactiVac Network has been shortlisted under the Research category for this prestigious award ceremony, which is being hosted by Public Health England on 27 June in Birmingham.
18 April 2019 Funding success for early career researchers Four researchers from the College of Medical and Dental Sciences have received funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and Cancer Research UK to further their scientific endeavours.
04 April 2019 More donor livers could be used for transplantation thanks to exciting new development A procedure assessed by NICE and used in research led by the University of Birmingham has been hailed as an "exciting development" in increasing the number of livers which can be safely used for transplantation.
03 April 2019 BactiVac hosts successful 2nd Annual Network Meeting The 2nd Annual Network Meeting, held in March, gave those attending opportunities to broaden connections within the BactiVac Network membership and a forum for exchanging ideas and furthering research possibilities.