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A wonderful start to the New Year as we receive news that Professor Kathy Niakan , is winner of the Genetics Society's 2025 Mary Lyon Medal . Named after the distinguished geneticist Mary Lyon FRS, the award was established in 2015 to reward outstanding research in genetics to scientists who are in the middle of their...

Prof Katja Röper was recently awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award of more than £3m over 8 years to study ’Supracellular coordination in tissue morphogenesis’. Using the fruit fly and human renal organoids as models, her lab aims to understand how processes are coordinated across the molecular, cell and tissue scale during...

Congratulations to Anna Cochrane, a PhD student in the Giussani Lab, who has been selected by PDN to represent the University of Cambridge at the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar this year. Anna's selection is based on the quality of her ongoing PhD work, academic achievement, and international conference...

Two new AstraZeneca funded studentships, working with the Rawlins and Robinson labs at PDN, and starting Oct 2025 are now accepting applications. AstraZeneca Funded Non Clinical PhD Studentship (Fixed Term) in Ion channels and excitability in neuroendocrine cancer a collaborative project jointly supervised by Prof Hugh...