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News Successful Round of Multiple Academic Promotions for Institute 2022 Eight academics within the Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy at the University of Birmingham have been promoted in the 2022 academic promotion round
25 October 2019 Researchers at University of Birmingham awarded over £1 million for latest technology for immune regulation Researchers at the University of Birmingham awarded £1.15 million for latest equipment for immune regulation.
03 October 2019 New partnership aims to identify new disease mechanisms and potential targets for treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease A new partnership between scientists at the University of Birmingham and global healthcare company Novo Nordisk aims to discover new treatments for people suffering from fatty liver disease.
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.