We research innate immune sensing of viruses, immune evasion and vaccinology. Professor of viral immunity. Cambridge BSI representative @BSICambridge.
Joined January 2009
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Fantastic to be part of this study that adds a new type of ubiquitin chain to the mechanism of pattern recognition receptor signalling. ANKIB1 is required for PRR-driven interferon production and has a broad impact on antiviral immunity. nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Excited to share our new work uncovering a previously unknown mechanism identifying ANKIB1 as the E3 ligase that writes a critical new letter of the ubiquitin code central for immune signalling: K11-linked ubiquitin nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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19 Sep 2025
Babies like garlic flavoured breast milk, drink more of it, and suckle longer when given it, according to a study that won the paediatrics prize at the 2025 Ig Nobel awards.
The annual awards are for studies that “first make people laugh, and then think”
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r197…
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19 Sep 2025
RT @extremetemps: ‼️THE MOST EXTREME DAY THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Is exactly Sept 19th 2025.
Dozens of thousands of records are being smas…
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15 Sep 2025
Don’t miss the Cambridge Immunology Forum 2025 – just over a week away! #BSICambridge25
Join us on 23 Sept at Queens’ College, Cambridge for a day of cutting-edge talks on immune migration, gut–brain axis, vascular immunology & more.
Register now 👉 bit.ly/4kuhr8Z
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
11 Sep 2025
The preprint claiming link between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and 'transcriptomic dysregulation' and cancer (based on just 10 people who got cancer in the year after vaccination) has been withdrawn.
HT: Reese Richardson.
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
See: scienceintegritydigest.com/2…
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
8 Sep 2025
Analyzing over 44 million US medical records, University of Virginia researchers found that patients hospitalized with severe COVID infection had a 19% higher risk of developing lung cancer.
These findings of SARS-CoV-2’s oncogenic potential adds to recent evidence that SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses can trigger rapid metastatic growth of breast cancer cells in the lungs within two weeks of infection.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
7 Sep 2025
Claims that vaccines haven’t been tested against placebo are demonstrably false.
We’ve documented 661 inert placebo-controlled trials (e.g., saline), including 503 for childhood vaccines.
100% of routinely recommended childhood vaccines have undergone placebo testing.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
4 Aug 2025
Fantastic new paper by Reese Richardson et al.
"The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly."
An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
3 Aug 2025
The modern cardiovascular drug development landscape has been largely shaped by human genetic studies. Emerging IL-6 targeting therapies are a landmark example.
In this @Circ_Gen paper with the @TourmalineBio team (developing an anti-IL6 antibody for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease), we review how genetics pinpointed IL-6 signaling as a causal driver of athero-inflammation👇
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3 Aug 2025
RT @PeterHotez: Dr. Hiviid responds to the claims of RFK Jr’s Dept HHS. Dr. Hiviid, please know that many (if not most) of us in U.S. biome…
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Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni.
Lord Smith said “To be elected as Chancellor of the University I love is a huge honour. I’m thrilled."
Read more about Lord Smith and the Chancellor election: cam.ac.uk/about-the-universi…
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13 Jul 2025
Tremendously crass to platform him at a time that measles cases are surging in the UK. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j1…
13 Jul 2025
Appalled to see the Telegraph giving Aseem Malhotra a platform today. He has spread increasingly dangerous vaccine misinformation with impunity.
@gmcuk’s failure to remove him from the register is every bit as appalling. A spineless dereliction of duty.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
10 Jul 2025
The #Virology Unit at @PasteurCambodia hiring 1 Scientist and 2 Postdocs to join our fast-moving, field-connected, research-driven team on emerging viruses and #zoonoses.
Limited time to apply — and we need people to start ASAP.**👇
#academicjobs
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
17 Jun 2025
Could this be the future of cancer prevention?
Walid Khaled @Cambridge_Uni, a new ERC Advanced Grant recipient, will work on a preventive vaccine for breast cancer.
👉 europa.eu/!WPxYgx
#ERCAdG #CancerResearch #FrontierResearch
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
12 Jun 2025
The culling and replacement of #ACIP at RFK's behest is shocking, sure.
However, what we absolutely MUST NOT forget is that the long-term aim of this 💩 is to normalise the adoption of fringe, politically driven "scientific views" into mainstream policy, now and in the future.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
28 May 2025
This is an incredible progress story
An aggressive type of cancer (Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia) used to carry a dismal prognosis, with 50% of patients dying in a year
New therapies have transformed it to a cancer that most people are cured of
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
8 May 2025
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 @CellCellPress
What a great work Jonathan @jepekar and Spyros @SpyrosLytras 🤩🤩🤩‼️
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
29 Apr 2025
"What data are you still collecting?"
Thanks for asking 😊 Both spacecraft are collecting data on the interstellar medium, the space between the stars – measuring the magnetic field, particles and cosmic rays, and the effects of shocks and pressure fronts from the Sun.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
25 Apr 2025
If you think about how statistics works it’s extremely obvious why a model built on purely statistical patterns would “hallucinate”. Explanation in next tweet.
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Brian Ferguson retweeted
23 Apr 2025
Led by Vijay Kuchroo and Oleg Butovsky, our group just published a paper in Nature showing treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by TIM-3 mediated regulation of microglia: tinyurl.com/5572mfb9. Immunology plays a major role in AD over and above anti-amyloid therapy. Very exciting!
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