📈 Neuroendocrine cancer incidence has risen 371% (1995–2018) - yet awareness remains low.

We must do more to recognise and diagnose it earlier.

🔗 Learn more about neuroendocrine cancer: www.neuroendocrinecancer.org.uk

A groundbreaking advancement in the detection of mucormycosis has been achieved by MRC CMM's Prof Chris Thornton & his collaborators! Discover more at news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Join us for this month's #MycoTalks with Rebecca Shapiro and Guilhem Janbon

📅Thursday 27 March
🕓16:00 GMT

Register here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We've some great submissions for this week's snapshot! Joe Blackman found our most famous resident, Napoleon, surveying an empty Forum. Totty Brobyn caught a bare tree under the blue sky outside the Innovation Centre. Prof Neil Gow found this ‘Earth stars’ fungi growing on our Streatham Campus.

Give the MRC CMM a follow if you're interested in medical mycology and fungal Immunology! This is the main hub for UK research in these fields
#mycosky #immunosky 🧪

We've created a starter pack so that you can follow members of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in one go! We'll be updating this pack as members join Bluesky! 🦋

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Subscribe to this list to keep up to date with all of the incredible research coming out of the CMM 🍄🔬👩‍🔬

🥼We are recruiting!
Exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Associate/Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the newly-funded MRC Programme Fungi-CARE (Combinations Against Resistance Emergence).
Find out more and apply here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

We are excited to announce that Round 2 of the FAILSAFE funding is now open for applications!

FAILSAFE provides funding opportunities for research and development (R&D) projects through two tiers: seedcorn projects (up to £75k) and mid to large projects (£75k-£250k).

Round 2 of FAILSAFE funding for innovative projects to reduce the burden of fungal AMR in LMICs is now open: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou.... Deadline April 21st 2025.

We’re thrilled to announce that applications for the FAILSAFE grants are NOW OPEN!
Grants of up to £250k available for innovative research tackling fungal antimicrobial resistance and advancing global health.

Learn more and apply here: cmm-failsafe.com/failsafe-rou...

#GlobalHealth #FAILSAFE

Join us this Thursday, 12 December at 16:00 GMT for our next #MycoTalks webinar with David Moyes and Robert Cramer.
Sign up here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A frosty #landscape looking across waterways near #Glastonbury in #Somerset, UK. This was a really wonderful result after a failed foggy sunrise

#fog #mist #landscapephotographer #landscapephotography #frost #winter #winterlandscape #lovewinter #minimalistic #minimalisticphotography #reflection

Join the FAILSAFE Medical Mycology Network, the global hub for advancing medical mycology research and collaboration. Here's why:
✅ Global Collaboration
✅ Free Resources
✅ Funding Opportunities: members can apply for FAILSAFE grants from £75,000 to £1 million
👉 Join: cmm-failsafe.com/become-a-mem...

We're delighted to have won the Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership at the Times Higher Education Awards last night.

The judges were wowed by our global reach in communicating high-quality research on environmental science and climate change 🌍

#snowday yesterday was beautiful…today it’s a pain #icey

As AMR Awareness week continues, we're looking at how a growing number of infections are becoming harder to treat as antibiotics fail to work, resulting in higher death rates, longer hospital stays & higher costs.

Discover how our research is exploring alternative treatments
tinyurl.com/2tn9k66t

Fifteen scientists from Exeter, and a further four who are affiliated to the University, have been recognised as being amongst the most influential researchers in their field, according to a prestigious ranking from Clarivate. news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorize...

Wits Mycology among 15 awardees of UK GAMRIF (Failsafe) funding from MRC CMM @uniofexeter.bsky.social

We're using seedcorn funding to kickstart our (larger) COMBAT Candida programme of work

We'll set up a cohort study in a single SA adult ICU tracking Candida colonisation & invasive infections