Two weeks ago, researchers from across the world gathered in Oxford for "Unravelling T-Cell Recognition: Insights from Immunology and AI", a unique conference and hackathon exploring how advances in artificial intelligence can deepen understanding of T-cell biology. Read more 👇

Congratulations to @drcarlacohen.bsky.social on her new role as a junior research fellow at @cpmoxford.bsky.social 🎉 Alongside her research in the MRC WIMM, Carla will be organising and taking part in various activities, such as lectures, discussion groups, creative endeavours and outreach projects

💚 Mental health matters every day. Whether you’re thriving or finding things tough, we have resources available to support you. From Spectrum.Life’s 24/7 free and confidential service, to Thriving at Oxford, and peer support. Find what helps you: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

Computational PhDs - this is a really special post-doc opportunity to join @hkoohy.bsky.social's lab at the @imm.ox.ac.uk in Oxford. It is part of a dream collaboration to identify the antigens recognised by Tregs - I'm so excited that we are really doing this! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX009/s...

Researchers at CAMS Oxford Institute have found that certain T cell responses are linked to mild #COVID19 disease. These T cells increase with cytotoxicity in the four years after infection, suggesting that they also play a protective role 🦠🔬 Read more 👉 buff.ly/4EANlxR

Congratulations to MRC WIMM Group Leaders Beth Psaila (@bethpsaila.bsky.social) & James Davies (@jojdavies.bsky.social) 🎉

Read about our @cclguk.bsky.social @littleprincesses.bsky.social funded research published in @bloodjournals.hematology.org . Well done Joe Cross and Lucy Field. Many thanks to Tom Milne and other collaborators. @oxfordpaediatrics.bsky.social @imm.ox.ac.uk ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

📽️ Check out our latest video, where we speak with the @drakesmith-lab.bsky.social and their collaborators in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk to find out how they're tackling iron deficiency - the world's most common nutritional deficiency 🧪 @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @ox.ac.uk Watch here 👇

NEW: Oxford researchers link mini organs to show how immune cells race to the rescue after heart injury 🧪 @abattacks.bsky.social & colleagues linked cardiac and bone marrow organoids with a 3D-printed device to model this complex immune response. Learn more 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Well done to @emilysn1.bsky.social from our group @imm.ox.ac.uk @oxfordpaediatrics.bsky.social for this award from the Kaiya Foundation to study VHR childhood ALL. #CCAM #bloodcancerawareness month. x.com/ttvoxfordshi...

A fantastic keynote lecture from @bethpsaila.bsky.social, Professor of Haematology @imm.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk, for our final talk of the day. 💬

NEW: Scientists at Oxford University, together with colleagues at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social, have developed a new type of immunotherapy that could improve outcomes for infants and children with high-risk leukaemia. Read more ⬇️

NEW: Scientists in the @roylab-oxford.bsky.social have co-led the development of a new type of immunotherapy that could improve outcomes for infants and children with high-risk leukaemia 🧪 #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth @oxfordpaediatrics.bsky.social | @medsci.ox.ac.uk Learn more 👇

Congratulations to Emily Neil (@emilysn1.bsky.social) & Andi Roy (@roylab-oxford.bsky.social) on receiving one of The Kaiya Foundation's first major research grants. Learn more 👇

NEW: Oxford researchers have discovered an unexpected and powerful new function for platelets. Platelets act as scavengers, capturing and storing fragments of DNA that are circulating in the blood, including fetal DNA and mutated DNA from cancer cells. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

NEW @cancerresearchuk.org-funded study, led by @bethpsaila.bsky.social & @l-cmurphy.bsky.social, reveals an unexpected and powerful new function for platelets with profound implications for cancer diagnosis and prenatal screening 🧪 @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @medsci.ox.ac.uk | @ox.ac.uk Learn more 👇

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽 📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci... 🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM 🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19

NEW: Study led by @imm.ox.ac.uk researchers maps key immune-epithelial cell interactions in lung fibrosis — opening doors to new therapeutic research. Published in @natcomms.nature.com this week 🧪 Learn more 👇 @ndm.ox.ac.uk | @oxfordbrc.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Prof Claus Nerlov, who has been awarded funding from Wellcome to map the gene regulatory networks in blood cell production and seek new therapeutic targets 🩸 Read more 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @wellcometrust.bsky.social

NEW: Latest study from Tao Dong's Group links cancer stage to strength of antitumoral immune response in HR+ breast cancer 🧪 Read more 👇 @ndm.ox.ac.uk | @medsci.ox.ac.uk

NEW: @nature.com study, co-led by @akiversen.bsky.social (@ndcnoxford.bsky.social), maps infectious diseases across millennia 🧪 Learn more 👇

Have you ever considered using theatre to connect your research with the public? Ali Kay (@genomics-ali.bsky.social) from the @gorielylab.bsky.social at the MRC WIMM has co-led a project that utilised theatre to explore a couple’s experience of a genetic diagnosis in their child. Read more 👇

NEW: Research led by Professors Irene Roberts and Paresh Vyas reports the outcome of the first-ever prospective study of newborn babies with Down syndrome, exploring why these babies and young children have such a high incidence of acute myeloid leukaemia caused by mutations in the GATA1 gene. 🧪

NEW: Researchers at the MRC WIMM and @dkfz.bsky.social have developed a new method to analyse how our tissues evolve as we age, called SCIFER 🧬 🧪 Read more 👇 @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @medsci.ox.ac.uk | @ox.ac.uk

WIMM Day 2025 brought our researchers together to share discoveries, swap ideas & celebrate success — from gene editing to immunotherapy to public engagement. Catch the recap + award winners here:

Congratulations to the new RDM PIs 🎉 - all MRC WIMM researchers!

Always a pleasure to attend EHA Annual meeting. Well done to WIMM students presenting their work. And a good catch up with all! #EHA2025 @imm.ox.ac.uk

Congratulations to our DPhil student, @xinranhuang.bsky.social, on being awarded a poster prize today at the EMBO | EMBL The Ageing Genome symposium in Heidelberg! 🎉 We're so proud of you--well done!!! #EESAgeing #PatelLab @imm.ox.ac.uk @kebleoxford.bsky.social

🚨🚨Paper out! 🚨🚨 Delighted to share our work, now published in ‪@natgenet.nature.com‬ 🧬! shorturl.at/94s5S We identified a targetable, chromothripsis-associated genetic event in blast phase (BP) MPN, a particularly poor prognostic subtype of acute leukaemia. 1/n Illustration: Hratch Arbach 🧵👇

NEW: Researchers at the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, led by @ckbrierley.bsky.social & @adammead.bsky.social, have uncovered a potential new therapeutic target in BP-MPN - a particularly aggressive type of leukaemia. 🧪🧬 Read more: @oxfordbrc.bsky.social | @rdm.ox.ac.uk | @medsci.ox.ac.uk

A group of our researchers are rowing 100km (each!) in June to raise money for Bone Cancer Research Trust. Show them some support below 👇

We're hiring! An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as Digital Communications Officer 📹 💻 This role will work closely with our Comms & Public Engagement Officer to support the delivery of our communication strategy and produce in-house audio-visual content. Apply here: bit.ly/4jIheOt

We're excited to be attending The Big Bang Fair (@bigbangukstem.bsky.social) next month! Our stand - Targeted Therapies - will be led by researchers from the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit & will introduce students to gene editing & some of the challenges in developing cancer therapies 🧬

NEWS: T cell responses to monkeypox play a part in protecting against infection The study led by researchers at the ‪@ndm.ox.ac.uk‬ and @imm.ox.ac.uk has found that specific T cells could have an impact on the long-term protective responses to future infection. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

Congratulations to @agoriely.bsky.social on being awarded the Spinoza chair by @amsterdamumc.bsky.social 🎉 In June, Prof Goriely will give her Spinoza lecture on how new genetic mutations arise in the testes, their increase in frequency as men age, and how they can lead to serious genetic diseases.

Researchers have found structures of immune cells in the gut that may drive the response to gluten in people with coeliac disease and could provide a target for future therapies oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/study-identi... @ndm.ox.ac.uk @oxfordpaediatrics.bsky.social @imm.ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Congratulations to former MRC WIMM Director Andrew McMichael on his election to the US National Academy of Sciences 🎉

Less than two weeks to go until @pintofscience.uk is back in Oxford (May 19–21)! On May 20th, MRC WIMM researcher @abattacks.bsky.social will explain how organoids, or 'mini-organs', are a small solution to big problems! For more information and tickets, visit: pintofscience.co.uk/events/oxford

Our researchers Adam Mead, Graham Collins and Deborah Hay have edited the eighth edition of this seminal #haematology text book, published by Wiley. Intended as a reference work and guide to the latest research in the field. www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/news/rdm-res... @graham74gc.bsky.social

NEW from the Fairfax Lab (@bpfairfax.bsky.social): 🧪

Congratulations to Dr Agne Antanaviciute, who has won a Wellcome Career Development Award for her research investigating early-life immunity. 🎉 Read more: www.imm.ox.ac.uk/news/wellcom... @rdmoxford.bsky.social | @wellcometrust.bsky.social

We are recruiting!! Ads now live for a Data Coordinator and 2 Research Assistants/biobankers to join a new @ludwigcancer.bsky.social - @imm.ox.ac.uk joint initiative to prevent progression from early- to advanced blood cancer. Joint posts with Adam Mead+others in Oxford Ludwig. Links below

NEW: International collaboration, initiated by the Jackson Group at the MRC WIMM, has uncovered new information that could help in the development of drugs to block conditions such as autoimmunity and inflammation. 🧪 Read more: www.imm.ox.ac.uk/news/jackson...

NEW: Paper out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social from @drakesmith-lab.bsky.social & Higgs Lab reveals an ancient connection between metabolic and transcriptional control of red blood cell production 🧪 Read more: www.imm.ox.ac.uk/news/ancient...

Last month, a team of researchers from @gorielylab.bsky.social led an interactive educational workshop titled “We Are All Mutants” for two biology classes at King George V College in Southport. Find out more in our latest blog post - www.imm.ox.ac.uk/about/blog/w...

David Jackson @imm.ox.ac.uk discusses a new intravital imaging technique by Cleary et al. (rupress.org/jem/article/...) enabling lung lymphatics and their participation in immune cell trafficking events to be visualized for the first time in mechanically ventilated mice rupress.org/jem/article/...

Congratulations to Dr Sumana Sharma (@sumanasharma.bsky.social), who has won a Wellcome Career Development Award for her research investigating receptors in T cells 🎉 Read more: www.imm.ox.ac.uk/news/wellcom... @rdmoxford.bsky.social | @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Congratulations to Adam Wilkinson, who has received the 2025 Janet Rowley Award from the @isehsociety.bsky.social for his outstanding contributions in the field of hematopoietic stem cell biology 🎉 Read more: www.imm.ox.ac.uk/news/wilkins... @rdmoxford.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk

Congratulations to MRC WIMM researchers Sarah, @abattacks.bsky.social, Pramila & Jack 🎉

5 years ago #OxfMedSci celebrated a centenary of women as full members of @ox.ac.uk with achievements of 100 Women of Medical Sciences. Some have moved on to new challenges, or are now in different positions, but they remain inspirational. This #IWD take moment to meet them. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...