Building on a breakthrough: the lasting impact of biologic therapy
Over 30 years ago, the Kennedy Trust supported the early research and clinical trials that led to the discovery of anti-TNF therapy, a groundbreaking treatment that has improved the lives of millions of patients with musculoskeletal and inflammatory diseases across...
Celebrating two new professorships at the Kennedy Institute
Trustees and staff at the Kennedy Trust attended a dinner hosted by the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in celebration of a recent donation made by the Trust to enable the endowment of two new professorships in translational medicine at the...
The Kennedy Trust welcomes its sixth Senior Research Fellow
Following a highly competitive call, we are delighted to announce that Dr Tetsuo Hasegawa at the University of Cambridge has been awarded a prestigious Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellowship of £1.9m over five years. The Senior Research Fellowship scheme was...
The Kennedy Trust & Medical Research Council co-fund a Daphne Jackson Fellow in Life Sciences & Biomedicine
We are delighted to announce that The Kennedy Trust and Medical Research Council (MRC) are co-funding a new Daphne Jackson Fellowship, supporting Dr Kate Coldwell. Kate will be starting her Fellowship on the 30th July 2024 at the Kennedy Institute...
Adrien Hallou joins Franco-British Young Leaders Programme
Dr Adrien Hallou, who is supported by the Kennedy Trust as a Group Leader in Tissue Biology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, has been announced as one of 20 new Young Leaders to join the Franco-British Council in 2024....
Dr Lizzy Rosser awarded prestigious Lister Prize
Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow Dr Elizabeth (Lizzy) C. Rosser, based at University College London, has been awarded a research prize from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine for her work on eye damage in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). JIA...