In our second blog for Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025, we speak to Giovana Carrasco Gonzalez about working as a postdoc at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC). What was your route to becoming a postdoc? I did lab rotations during my undergraduate degree and really enjoyed doing cancer research so I decided to pursue […]

For Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025, we speak to Natalia Jimenez Moreno about her role as a postdoc at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer. What was your route to becoming a postdoc? I graduated with a degree in Biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2014 and completed a Masters in Molecular Biomedicine there […]

By Dr Debora Bogani, Head of Scientific Communications at the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell and MRC National Mouse Genetics Network (originally posted on the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network) Celebrating Research Specialists: Driving Innovation in Mouse Genetics Research specialists are often the unsung heroes in biomedical research groups, providing continuity in long-term research […]

By Nathan Constantine-Cooke, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer This World IBD Day, I am reflecting on being both a person living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a researcher aiming to improve our understanding of these conditions. Around my 18th birthday, I began experiencing symptoms of ulcerative colitis, which alongside Crohn’s disease […]

As a young girl growing up in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya in the West Bank, Roza Masalmeh always remembers wanting to do something related to science. “I loved science,” says Roza, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer. “I wanted to be an inventor or discoverer. I was always doing […]

During Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognises the exceptional contribution of research staff to the University, we speak to Lawrence Bates about life as a postdoc in Jenny Nichols’ lab, which studies the early stages of mammalian development, from formation of the blastocyst to implantation, gastrulation and the onset of organogenesis. What was your route to […]