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The Francis Crick Institute
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The Francis Crick Institute
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We’re the Crick, a research institute in London. We’re no longer posting on this account, but you can find other ways to stay in touch in our pinned post.
- Today the UK approved a gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease and thalassemia. It’s the first treatment ever to be licensed using the gene editing tool Crispr and will have huge implications for people living with these conditions.
- Yesterday the whole building got together for some afternoon talks and tea to celebrate the Crick’s 5th anniversary.🎈 Huge thanks to every single person who has helped make the Crick what it is today #TheCrickTurns5
- 🏅 Congratulations! Our director of clinical research Peter Ratcliffe won the Nobel Prize today with @Harvard's William Kaelin and @JohnsHopkins' Gregg Semenza! He earned the award for his work on hypoxia carried out at @UniofOxford. ow.ly/8IPf50wEyut
- We've offered our scientific resources & expertise to help the Government's fight against #coronavirus by increasing @PHE_uk's & @NHSuk's capacity to test for #covid19 300 of our researchers have volunteered to help scale up testing. More here ⬇️
- We are delighted to announce that Professor Edith Heard has been appointed as our new director and chief executive! Edith, who is currently director-general at @embl, will succeed Paul Nurse in leading the Crick from the summer of 2025. 🔗 crick.ac.uk/news/2024-07-0…
- We’re excited to welcome @DeepMind to the Crick where they’ll set up a new lab to apply #AI and #machinelearning to address biomedical research challenges 🖥️
- Science is political and racism is embedded within it. We want to see change and that’s why we stand with all our Black colleagues and friends. #BlackLivesMatter We know some people are looking for ways to help. Here are some starting points. ⏬
- We're delighted that our Director of Clinical Research, Peter Ratcliffe, has won the @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! Congratulations to Peter, @DanaFarber’s William Kaelin and @JohnsHopkins’ Gregg Semenza!BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
- We’re four years old today! 🎈🎂🥂 On 9 November 2016, the Queen opened the Crick. This week we’ll be looking back on some memories from our first few years. #TheCrickTurns4
- The rapid spread of COVID-19 requires an equally fast response from the research community. We're supporting @DeepMind to make possible SARS-CoV-2 protein structures generated by AlphaFold freely available. Download the dataset. ➡️ ow.ly/VZp650yDwqo ow.ly/pGha50yDwst
- "Some scientists say that stress is part of the job, and wear it like a badge of honour. I want to debunk that myth. With great mental health comes great science." Read Group Leader @JamesXY11 in @NatureCareers on why he became a mental health first aider nature.com/articles/d4158…
- Congratulations to our director Paul Nurse, who has been elected as the next president of the @RoyalSociety! 🥂 Paul will take up the role in December 2025, after he stands down as director of the Crick next summer.
