School of the Biological Sciences
About this community
The School of the Biological Sciences encompasses the Faculty Board of Biology and the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine and is represented on the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine. It has responsibilities across three Triposes (the Natural Sciences Tripos, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos).
Find out more about the School of the Biological Sciences at http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Centre for Family Research
Has a worldwide reputation for innovative research that increases understanding of children, parents and family relationships -
Centre for Trophoblast Research
Promotes scientific study of the placenta, the organ that interfaces between the mother and her baby during pregnancy -
Department of Biochemistry
An internationally competitive research programme; themes include cell signalling and control of gene expression, to molecular microbiology, plant molecular biology and biofuel research, cancer and cardiovascular biology
Recent Submissions
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Reducing the Burden of Bacterial Meningitis in the African Meningitis Belt After MenAfriVac
The African meningitis belt - a semi-arid region stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia - experiences the highest incidence of bacterial meningitis in the world, characterised by seasonal fluctuations in endemic disease, ... -
Studying the Transcriptional and Epigenetic Perturbations of Haematopathologies Expressing NPM1-ALK
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is a tyrosine kinase involved in the development of the gut and nervous system, initially cloned from cases of T-cell lymphoma. ALK has been frequently implicated in diverse cancers through ... -
Assembly of nuclear dimers of the PI3K regulatory subunits underpins the proliferative activity of Activated Cdc42-associated Kinase, ACK
(2021-01-18)ACK is an oncogenic non-receptor tyrosine kinase associated with poor prognosis in human cancers. ACK promotes proliferation, in part, by contributing to the activation of Akt, the major PI3K effector. The work presented ...
