School of Clinical Medicine

Professor Julian Rayner, whose research at the Wellcome Sanger Institute has made significant contributions to our understanding of malaria parasites, will take over as Director of the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR) on 1 May 2019.

He discovered performing at medical school in India and, as a PhD student, began to devise his own material. Armed with his ‘baloney detection kit’, researcher Hisham Ziauddeen uses stand up to demonstrate the folly of bogus science.

The application process for this year’s Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund closes later this month.

Members of the University remember the former Regius Professor of Physic, who died last month.

Researchers on the Biomedical Campus will benefit from a new Postdoc Centre opening on Tuesday.

The inaugural Impact and Public Engagement with Research Awards took place yesterday, recognising staff whose research goes beyond the academic setting. 

Sharon Peacock CBE appointed Director of the Bloomsbury Research Institute.