At last month's School of Life Sciences annual Research Symposium, Nicole was awarded a joint 1st place for her poster entitled, ‘Role and Control of IL-33 and Mast Cell Responses in Intestinal Helminth Infection’. Congratulations to all the winners!

Our final-year PhD student Vivien Shek has bagged yet another poster prize, this time at the British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting! Many congratulations to her and the other winners at the conference!

Congratulations to Suzanne Hodge for winning a poster prize at the third Scottish Immunology Groups Network (SIGNET) joint symposium held in Perth!

Our honours year student Evie Wood has bagged 2nd place at this year's BBSE Honours Symposium Competitive Talks with her talk titled 'Testing Monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) Interactions with the HpARI and HpBARI Protein Families'. Many congratulations to her and all the other winners!

At this year's BSI Congress 2023, Nicole Ong was shortlisted to present her work on Mast Cell IL-33 Signalling in Intestinal Helminth Infection and won the 3rd prize BrightSparks (PhD) award. Many congratulations to her and the other winners!

Congratulations to Vivien for winning a poster prize at the Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation, and Training (SPPIRIT) ECR Symposium this year!

At this year's School of Life Sciences 3rd Year Poster event, we had so many amazing posters that there were four joint 1st place prizes awarded. Congratulations to Nicole Ong and Samuele Di Carmine for bagging two of those prizes and to all the other poster prize winners as well!

Congratulations to our honours year students Amberene and Zara for winning Best Biological Competitive Talk and Best Biomedical Competitive Talk respectively at the Honours Project Symposium 2022!

Congratulations to Josh Richards who won the 2nd prize at the School of Life Sciences 3rd-Year PhD Poster Event with his poster titled "The HpARI Paradox: Suppressor of Asthma, Driver of Eosinophilia". And congratulations to the other prize winners Philippa Rosewell and Hajra Bibi as well!

The McSorley lab has been awarded a 1-year MRF Enhancing Research Award: Asthma Research, on “Modulation of immune responses to reduce pathology in a pre-clinical asthma model”! This will allow us to investigate how administration of a series of helminth-derived proteins could prevent or treat asthma in a chronic-clinically relevant model, using cutting-edge measurement of murine lung function.

Congratulations to Vivien who placed second in the School of Life Sciences 3rd Year Poster Event for her poster "Targeted Identification of New Parasite Immunomodulators Against Allergic Asthma"!

Congratulations to our PhD student Vivien Shek on being awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellowship! Vivien will be working with Hermelijn Smits' lab in the Leiden University Medical Center, fostering collaboration between both of our labs.

The McSorley lab is proud to announce that we have been granted a 5-year Wellcome Investigator award on “Molecular regulators of the alarmin IL-33 in health and disease", which will help to further our work on the role and control of the IL-33 pathway in helminth infection, asthma and obesity.