Mike Murphy
Our lab is interested in all things mitochondrial.
- Funding? I'm a simple academic, so I'll have to await someone smart to explain to me how "pausing" MRC and BBSRC funding is the action of a biomedical science superpower...?
- Congrats to Jan whose new paper on persulfide measurement is is out now in Nature Comms
- Christmas in the lab....
- Huge congratulations to Abigail Giles whose paper has just come out in Nature Cardiovascular Research - from a great collaboration with Bob Balaban, along with Thomas Krieg and Tish Murphy. doi.org/10.1038/s441...
- Congrats to Emma Yu on her new paper on Tafazzin! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Pleased to be a small part of a recent paper led by Thiru Kanneganti at St Judes www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Congrats to Kath Hammond who was awarded a short talk prize at the recent WT "Mitochondrial medicine: therapeutic development" meeting at Hinxton.
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- Drs Cherrie Kong and Stephen Harmer (University of Bristol) are offering a fully funded PhD project, " For information and to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... For information including application preparation: cherrie.kong@bristol.ac.uk Application deadline: 15 December 2025
- Congrats to Nils Burger who is just starting his lab at UTSW in Texas! Any prospective PhD students or post-docs should get in touch with Nils. www.nils-burger-lab.com
- In Toronto today giving a seminar at the Sick Kids Research Institute on "Mitochondria in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: From Basic Science to Potential Therapies" Great to catch up with previous lab member now in Toronto - Thomas Hurd, Ellen Robb and Anna Dare.
- Great to see this paper out - another Krieg/Murphy collaboration - and congratulations to Jordan Lee who did most of the work! academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...
- Great to see Hiran Prag setting up his lab at the University of Manchester - I'm expecting great things! personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/hiran....
- It was wonderful to see the NEJM paper today about healthy babies born free of mtDNA disease following mitochondrial donation. Built on decades of work led by Doug Turnbull and his team in Newcastle. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- It was a great pleasure to attend last week Professor Dunja Aksentijevic's inaugural Professorial Lecture at Queen Mary, University of London. Dunja, it's just the start!
- Congrats to Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social on her paper on redox regulation of autophagy in Drosophila. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Good day yesterday at the William Harvey Research Institute Research Day where I was honoured to receive the Derek Willoughby Medal and give a lecture. Great hospitality from Dunja Aksentijevic and Sir Mark Caulfield.
- Series of interesting papers showing that haematopoietic stem cells can undergo damaging clonal haematopoiesis when they acquire mutations that enhance mitochondrial respiration - opening the way to using metformin - and my beloved MitoQ - to prevent this transition. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Congrats to Dunja Aksienijevic on her latest paper!
- By the Atlantic in Galway at the SFRRI meeting - catching up with old friends and new. www.sfrrgalway2025.com
- Congrats to Renata Goncalves who led a study in Gokhan Hotamisligil's lab that has just come out in Nature - ably assisted by Jillian Riveros! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Congratulations to Abigail Giles who was awarded the "The Richard J. Bing Award for Young Investigators" at the recent World Congress of the International Society For Heart Research in Japan. Well done Abigail!
- Congratulations to @clarebryant.bsky.social on her election to the Academy of Medical Sciences!
- Congrats to Ana Vujic on her latest paper! journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Delighted to be a small part of this paper led by Alicia, Brian and Simon. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by Mike MurphyDelighted that our work describing a potential novel treatment approach for B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia is published today in @natcomms.nature.com. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
