News stories about College staff and practices
Dame Sally Davies, the Master of Trinity College, has launched the Trinity Challenge, which brings together leading business, academic and philanthropic institutions, to harness the potential of data and analytics in order to better protect and prepare the world against health emergencies.
Trinity's Sub-Librarian, Sandy Paul, will retire this week. The Sub-Librarian's post was established in 1773 and Sandy has been in the role for 11 years and has worked at Trinity for 25 years. We caught up with him to hear about his career and his plans for the future.
Research by Trinity Fellow, Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, has shown for the first time that four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – play a role in certain types of breast cancer.
Catherine Barnard is Professor of EU Law and Employment Law at Cambridge and Senior Tutor at Trinity. In 2019 she was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching at Cambridge and in 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Trials of Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald’s Cytosponge have found the ‘pill on a string’ can identify ten times more people with the pre-cancerous condition Barrett’s oesophagus than the conventional detection methods.