Congratulations to the winners of our Bright Sparks sessions at the British Society for Immunology Congress 2025. This event aims to showcase the work of early career researchers as well as providing them with valuable experience talking about their work in front of a large audience.
PhD category
- First place: Carin Andrea Brundin, Francis Crick Institute - Germinal centre activity in tumour-draining lymph nodes regulate systemic immunity
- Second place: Alexander Redmond, University of Oxford - The soluble isoform of the type I interferon receptor is a negative regulator of antiviral gene expression
- Third place: Holly Sedgwick, University of Manchester - Investigating B cell dynamics and interaction with the extracellular matrix in chronic lung disease
Postdoc category
- First place: Jonathan Mannion, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London - Harnessing immunogenic cell death to improve cancer therapy
- Second place: Georgia Baldwin, University of Manchester - Ym1 as a regulator of IL-17 and LPS-induced lung inflammation
- Third place: Samuel Higginbotham, Newcastle University - Neutrophils as a sex-specific driver of hepatic steatosis