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Very best wishes for the festive season! From all of us here at the Milner Therapeutics Institute! 🎄

Career opportunity: Partnership Manager 🤝 This brand-new role is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to lead the overall strategy and deliver a new partnership between the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) and Flagship Pioneering. The Partnership Manager will act as a conduit between researchers across Cambridge and Flagship Pioneering companies, working closely with the Flagship Global Engagement team to align company challenges and priorities for external collaboration with academic and clinical expertise in Cambridge. They will devise and deliver a programme of events to facilitate introductions and create opportunity for new partnerships. They will support the initiation of these partnerships (e.g. through coordination with the Research Operations Office, Cambridge Enterprise and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), including research collaborations, consulting agreements, clinical trial facilitation as well as establishment of new spin-outs from the University, Research Institutes or clinical trials units. The role holder will hold a PhD in biomedical science or equivalent. They will have experience in scientific project and business partnership management, including interdisciplinary research projects, and an ability to identify projects that are innovative and more likely to be of strong interest to external partners. The closing date is 14 January, to find out more and apply, click here: https://lnkd.in/d-Jk3cX9

Did you catch our most recent newsletter? Follow the link below to read the latest issue and subscribe to future editions. Don't miss... 🤝 Milner Entrepreneurship. Welcome to TRIMTECH Therapeutics Limited and congratulations are in order for Shift Bioscience, Epitopea and clock.bio 🧪 Academic spotlight on Dr Will McEwan, UK Dementia Research Institute 🔬 Affiliated Company spotlights on Sai Life Sciences Ltd and Selleck Chemicals LLC 🧬 Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory. The refurbishment is underway! Plus, highlighted news, events and opportunities. https://lnkd.in/gCFtsny

Did you know that our bi-monthly newsletter highlights our collaborators, partners and Cambridge academics in an 'at-a-glance' format? 👇 A repository of these spotlights can now be found on our website, including our most recent spotlight with Dr William A McEwan of the UK Dementia Research Institute! https://lnkd.in/eWpepcaM

The Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory (FGSL) call for proposals is ongoing and the next deadline for applications will be May 2025 💫 The call is relevant to UK-based academics, small/medium-sized enterprises and pharmaceutical companies who have complex human in vitro models, such as organoids and co-culture models, amenable to arrayed CRISPR screening. Find everything you need to know about the FGSL via the webpage: https://lnkd.in/eZiga36U

🚀 Don't forget that the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme is open for applications! You don’t need to be part of the “neurotech” community to apply – what matters is your ability to think boldly and contribute innovative solutions. There are two fellowship types available: ✨ Blue Sky Fellowships for those with speculative hypotheses who need the freedom to explore possibilities ✨ Frontier Fellowships for those who have a proof-of-concept idea and want to turn it into real-world solutions. 👉 To find out more, and apply for one of the Fellowships: https://lnkd.in/eXGGNwud 👉 Join our launch event on 18th December in Cambridge. More tickets have been released! https://lnkd.in/evj9S82b

Building causal hypotheses in drug discovery 🎥🤔 If you missed last week's panel discussion with our own Nicola McCarthy and Namshik Han, and Biorelate's Ben Sidders and Daniel Jamieson, you can now view the recording online! Where are the opportunities to use AI and data driven approaches to create more robust models for developing actionable hypotheses? How can biopharma make better use of data for developing mechanistic rationales that will improve drug discovery outcomes for drug developers and patients? Join the discussion by clicking here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZsq-25A

Don’t miss the first instalment of our 2025 Milner Seminars, with a focus on the microbiome in disease 🤩👇 🗓️ Wednesday 29 January 📍Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus ⏰ 4 - 4:30pm Virginia Pedicord, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID) University of Cambridge – “Integrating functional metagenomics to decipher microbiome-immune interactions” ⏰ 4:30pm - 5pm Ghaith Bakdash, Microbiotica - “Mechanistic understanding of MB310: a consortium of gut commensal bacteria for treatment of ulcerative colitis” ⏰ 5pm - Networking, discussion and refreshments. For more and to register, visit: https://lnkd.in/e67GmSx6

#ThrowbackThursday to when Gut Journal (Gastroenterology at BMJ) released this video abstract of work at the Milner Therapeutics Institute in collaboration with Professor Matthias Zilbauer 😎 Learn how Thomas Dennison and colleagues grew and analysed more than 300 mini-guts – also known as gut organoids – in the lab to investigate changes in the gut epithelium that were found in Crohn’s disease, but not in organoids from healthy donors. 👉 Watch the video: https://lnkd.in/e89HpJHF 👉 Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/eAFpUMfV 👉 Visit the Milner Target Discovery and Functional Validation group, led by Dr Erica Bello: https://lnkd.in/emJFrYVd 👉 Visit the Zilbauer lab, based at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute: https://lnkd.in/e4HK5m85