Research topics and interest groups

Focuses on why cancer develops and finding ways to treat, diagnose and prevent it.

Focuses on developmental and stem cell mechanisms underlying life processes.

Focuses on how biological macromolecules function in cells.

Focuses on how immune systems protect organisms from pathogens.

Focuses on research limiting the spread and effects of disease agents.

Focuses on the nervous system and how it controls the interaction of organisms with their environment.

Focuses on how biomolecules function and interact.

Using biochemical and proteomic approaches to understand the molecules and interactions underlying biological processes. 

Understanding how cells convert information in their genome into form and function, and how they respond to their environment. 

Using chemical tools and techniques to investigate biological mechanisms, and screening large libraries to identify promising compounds.

Analysing large datasets to answer biomedical questions, and using systems approaches and computer modelling to understand biological processes.  

Understanding the processes through which cells become the right types of cell in the right place to form functioning organs.

Applying thinking from ecology and evolution to biomedicine to learn how higher levels of biological organisation influence organisms, organs and cells. 

Understanding cell behaviour by investigating which genes are expressed and active at different times and locations, and in response to which signals. 

Obtaining genomic sequences for organisms from microbes to humans to study biological mechanisms in health and disease.

Understanding the mechanisms by which cells maintain genome integrity to explore new approaches to diseases such as cancer.   

Using tissue and organ models, whole body and organ imaging, and human genome sequences to improve translational research and improve human health.

Imaging molecules, cells and tissues at different scales and resolutions to learn about biological processes and pathways.

Studying immune cells, the signalling pathways involved in inflammation and immune responses, and cancer immunology.      

Studying the growth, metabolism, pathogenicity and evolution of the viruses, bacteria and parasites that cause infectious diseases.

Studying the regulation of metabolism to understand metabolic disorders like diabetes and a range of other diseases including cancer.    

Designing and making microscale devices to manipulate cells, tissues and biochemical reactions for precise and predictable investigations. 

Using model organisms, from viruses, yeast and bacteria to mice, fish and rats, to study the biological processes involved in human health and disease. 

Understanding how neural circuits in the nervous system process information; respond to stimuli; and give rise to our actions and behaviour. 

Studying cell signalling pathways, including those involving oncogenes, to understand immune responses, development, cancer and neuroscience. 

Understanding how stem cells produce, maintain and renew all the different cell types in the embryo and in adult organs to study development and disease. 

Determining the shape, structure and activity of large biomolecules to reveal how they carry out complex biological processes in our cells and tissues.

Combining knowledge of biology with engineering principles to build new biological systems, or learn more about natural biological pathways. 

Finding new ways to treat, diagnose and prevent cancer by understanding the mutations and complex genomic changes within tumours that drive it.