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18th February 2020
Event introduces the RESTORE-ME trial
At a public meeting held at the Quadram Institute in February, a team of researchers from the Norwich Research Park outlined their plans for a new behind a new project investigating ME. The study, called RESTORE-ME, is being funded thanks top the generous support...
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12th February 2020
New sequencing platform uncovers genomic adaptations to common household antibacterial
Scientists from the Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia on the Norwich Research Park have developed a new platform technology to study how bacteria survive and grow following exposure to a range of challenging, or stress-inducing conditions. The work which was in collaboration...
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10th February 2020
Students visit the Quadram Institute to get a taste of food research on European tour
A group of students from Wageningen University in the Netherlands visited the Quadram Institute, as part of a tour of European food and health institutes, universities and companies. The students are at the end of their third and final year of the bachelor’s or...
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20th January 2020
Meet the researchers behind a new trial into ME
The Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park is holding a public meeting to talk about their ongoing research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS). The event will also be a chance to give your opinions about the planned future clinical trial into a...
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18th December 2019
International collaboration targets Salmonella Typhi
Despite continued history as one of the major water-related diseases, much is still unknown about the biology of the bacterial agent of typhoid fever, Salmonella enterica ssp. enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi), particularly in relation to factors governing its persistence and fate in the environment. This pathogen...
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17th December 2019
Leading researchers from the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been awarded £100,000 by charity Breast Cancer Now to investigate whether bacteria in the gut could be manipulated to help prevent the spread of breast cancer. With new funding, Dr...
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16th December 2019
Diagnosing infections earlier in preterm babies with real time genomic analysis
By harnessing next generation sequencing techniques, the team from the Quadram Institute and the Earlham Institute (EI) have shown that they can rapidly and reliably identify the microbes present in a preterm baby’s stool sample that may cause life-threatening conditions such as sepsis or...
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10th December 2019
Developing gut cell network analysis to understand intestinal diseases
A team of scientists from the Norwich Research Park have applied network analysis to the study of cells in the gut that are crucial to health. By employing their methods to organoids grown from human gut cells, they hope to disentangle the complex gene...
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7th December 2019
Lindsay Hall receives research accolade
Dr Lindsay Hall has received the Wain Medal from the University of Kent. The accolade is annually given to an outstanding UK-based young scientist doing research in biochemistry. The University of Kent established the annual medal and award in memory of Professor Louis Wain...
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2nd December 2019
UK Charity Pledges £500,000 for Research into ME in Norwich Research Park
UK Charity Invest in ME Research is pledging £500,000 for continued research into the disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) in Norwich Research Park, UK (NRP). This major investment builds on the foundations already made for a UK/European Centre of Excellence for ME research...
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