Today is my last board meeting as British Society for Immunology trustee. I have spent six wonderful years representing ECRs - I am incredibly proud of ECR initiatives brought in by the BSI, such as the Career Enhancement Grants immunology.org/membership/gra…. Thanks to the trustees past and present.

We're delighted to launch our new #EarlyCareer Development #Grants 🙌

If you're an #ECR CARINA member working on #ageing & #immunity we want to support you in your #ProfessionalDevelopment & help you reach your #CareerGoals 🤩

Find out more & apply here👉bit.ly/3xZO3nL

To mark #worldimmunologyday our Monday interview features Professor Sian Henson, who gives a fascinating insight into her work researching ways to reverse age-related immune dysfunction. Read the interview: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Are you at a loose end tomorrow evening? Fancy learning about the immune system in pregnancy and early life?

There's still time to get FREE TICKETS for our #WorldImmunologyDay event at The Crick!

Online and in person options... 👇🏻

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A PhD position (Cancer Research UK funded) is available in my lab starting in September (applications until May). Please get in touch for more information: findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

We're hiring, if you're a bioinformatician who would be interested in helping the team create a metabolic network model to investigate T cell ageing then please apply 👇
qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

Final reminder. Deadline is tomorrow - please do apply if you are interested. DEBRA UK Blizard Institute

How do tumours evade destruction by the immune system? We are recruiting two postdocs (wet lab/dry lab) to shed light on epigenetic checkpoints of anti-tumour immunity in lung cancers in this collaborative project funded by Cancer Research UK. qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…
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I have extended the deadline for the PhD studentship below. If you are interested in mononuclear phagocytes, inflammation and drug repurposing. Then please do apply!

Just a reminder I have a funded PhD advertised closing date is the 15th Feb.

We are recruiting computational and wet-lab scientists and support international candidates. Please reach out if you are interested in working with us. Dark antigens, interferon responses, transposable elements, the HUSH complex, immune-epigenetics and MORE....

**Please Share** A fully-funded #PhDposition is available in my group Blizard Institute to examine how chronic inflammation in the human airway affects antibody responses to common respiratory pathogens. Apply by 23rd Feb, more info and link here : findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Just published! My first last author paper! Showing that vitamin D inhibits inflammatory cytokine production from senescent dermal fibroblasts via inhibition of p38-MAPKinase pathway doi.org/10.1111/acel.1…
Blizard Institute Akbar Lab

Last week we held our cross-sector meeting at the The Royal Society

It was a fantastic day full of brilliant talks from industry & academia, alongside great discussions about important topics in the #ImmuneAgeing space 💬

Read the full meeting summary here: bit.ly/3Oob750

🚨🚨🚨 #Job alert!! 🚨🚨🚨

We're looking for a #postdoc to come work on human immune challenge models of #fibrosis

It's exciting, all human focused #immunology !
Plus, we're quite fun and NDORMS is pretty great

Please spread the word!
#postdoc jobs

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Exciting news! I have a fully funded (UK only) 4 year PhD position available in my lab. The project is all about targeting inflammation to improve junctional epidermolysis bullosa pathology. Please spread the word Blizard Institute DEBRA UK
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New Year, new job? Excited to be #hiring a Deputy Manager for our Phenotypic Screening Facility #microscopy #multiplex #highcontent #drugdiscovery #screening Excellent training and development opportunity. Interested? Get in touch! Or share! 👉 lnkd.in/ePZy2_V9

I have a fully funded PhD available (UK only). In this PhD (co-supervised Dr Fraser Cummings and Dr David Layfield), we will use donated human lymph nodes to compare mouse and human T cell responses to inflammation. Please share to interested MSc students!
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Come and do a Masters in Regenerative medicine Blizard Institute A bonus on this course is I am a co-module lead with Cleo Bishop Lab and you get to learn about how to regenerate aged immunity amongst many other exciting things!