- Professor Alessia Buscaino to join the Quadram Institute leading research focused on fungi and their role in food and healthby Ruby O'Grady on July 4, 2025 at 11:00
Prof Buscaino’s research group is dedicated to understanding the biology of the most common human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, and to developing fungal-based platforms for producing nutritious, sustainable, and animal-free foods […]
- UK developed cloud computing service dedicated to microbiology builds for the futureby Ruby O'Grady on June 26, 2025 at 11:15
The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics (CLIMB) is the world’s only cloud computing service dedicated to microbiology and was developed by UK scientists. Over the past ten years through support from UK Research and […]
- New UK study highlights how food structure plays a key role in digestion and healthby Ruby O'Grady on June 20, 2025 at 09:00
Researchers from the Quadram Institute in Norwich and Imperial College London showed that foods made with chickpea flour prepared in a way to keep the plant cells intact trigger a much healthier metabolic response during digestion than […]
- How a gut bacterium uses diet to turn against usby Andrew Chapple on June 4, 2025 at 09:05
Researchers from the Quadram Institute have found how a common gut microbe, Bilophila wadsworthia, adapts to high-fat diets which may contribute to gut and liver disease. The post How a gut bacterium uses diet to turn against us appeared […]
- Future food research at Quadram funded by ARIAby Andrew Stronach on June 2, 2025 at 14:21
Quadram Institute scientists are working on the first phase of a major new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) programme to help develop the plants and food of the future. Professor Martin Warren, chief scientific officer at the […]
- Parkinson’s microbiome study reveals alterations linked to environmental chemicalsby Andrew Chapple on May 29, 2025 at 11:05
Researchers analysing the gut microbiomes of Parkinson’s patients have uncovered alterations in its composition and functional capacity that associate with the disease, including pathways involved in the biochemical transformation of […]
- Quadram part of new network unlocking gut-immunology-brain linksby Andrew Chapple on May 23, 2025 at 09:20
Dr Aimee Parker from the Quadram Institute is part of the UK Gut-Immunology-Brain Axis Network+, groundbreaking UK research network to uncover how gut health influences the brain, immune system and mental well-being The post Quadram part […]
- Quadram Institute honoured to announce The Princess Royal as Patronby Ruby O'Grady on May 22, 2025 at 09:37
The announcement of The Princess Royal’s patronage of the Quadram Institute follows a recent visit to the institute to meet scientists, PhD students, patients, clinical trial volunteers and NHS staff in December 2024. The Quadram […]
- World-class Quadram Institute science features in Parliamentby Ruby O'Grady on April 29, 2025 at 13:30
Norwich North MP Alice Macdonald tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) welcoming the charity Invest in ME Research’s funding of the Ian Gibson Fellowship for postdoctoral research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), held by Dr Katharine […]
- New Fellowship explores harnessing gut microbes for healthy ageingby Andrew Chapple on April 17, 2025 at 08:29
Dr Aimee Parker from the Quadram Institute has been awarded a BBSRC Fellowship to explore how to reverse age-related decline through modifying the gut microbiota The post New Fellowship explores harnessing gut microbes for healthy ageing […]