Heike is thrilled to be nominated at this year’s Women of the Year Lunch and Awards to be held in London in October!!
Women of the Year is a not-for-profit organisation, led by a committed team of volunteers, dedicated to recognising, celebrating and advancing the achievements of women across the UK and globally!
2025 was the inaugural year for the Tony Minson Progression Prize. After 10 months of research, students must write up and defend their first year’s research and future plans in a viva voce (oral examination). Successful students are then registered for their PhD studies.
These are original research articles considered to "provide a significant advance on disease mechanisms and to be of high value to the scientific community. Link.
Ting and Daniel join the lab part way through their PhD studies. We look forward to their stimulating contributions to our research projects!
Our preprint is up on biorxiv—link
Navarro and Esteras have published a lovely Commentary on our work!
Our paper on the effects of a point mutation in Fbxo7 has been accepted in FEBS J. This joint work by Sara and Lorna and our UK and international collaborators characterises the detrimental effects on proteasomes and the mitochondria in the little girl’s fibrobalsts. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/febs.17114