Dr Maria Fragiadaki (Department of Infection and Immunity) was recently awarded a prestigious Post-doctoral Career Development Fellowship by Kidney Research UK. Maria is currently a Thomas-Berry and Simpson Fellow in the Academic Unit of Nephrology, Department of Infection and Immunity,   She will be working on the role of novel modulators of JAK-STAT signalling in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney…

Dr James Fotheringham (Department of Infection and Immunity) received the AEG Raine Award for 2015 from the Renal Association UK as the best young renal investigator in the UK. James received this award at the joint meeting of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (ERA-EDTA) and Renal Association UK in London (May 2015)…

Hannah Roddie, a first year PhD student in Iwan Evans’s lab was awarded the second place poster prize at the joint meeting of the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB) and British Society of Developmental Biology (BSDB) Annual Meeting. The meeting was held at the University of Warwick from 12-15 April.  Hannah was awarded second…

The Department of Infection and Immunity has received gold and silver awards for Green Impact. The departmental Green Impact team, led by Vanessa Singleton and consisting of Fiona Wright, Natalie Swallow, Emily Fisk and Yvonne Stephenson, has, for the third year running, been awarded a Silver award for the offices, and a Gold award for the…