Merry Christmas from the Pirog and Briggs labs!

2024 was a very good year with plenty to celebrate. Fran completed her project and generated lots of exciting data (watch this space for updates), Rachel successfully defended her PhD thesis (which we are now writing up into a paper!), Marc finished in the lab and started writing up his thesis, Anna generated a great set of preliminary data in the first year of her PhD, Gemma graduated from her MRes with a distinction, Maria made first great discoveries in her project, and Roufaida completed two secondments (one in Padova and one in Pavia) and generated data that will lead to publications and new investigation avenues. We also got MRC funding for an exciting project (led by Prof Mike Briggs and shared between Briggs, Pirog and Young labs) looking at drug repurposing for bone diseases, and we published two research papers, a book chapter and a review.

Well done everyone, and thank you very much for all your hard work and for all the fun times together. I have been very lucky to be able to work with all of you. Wishing you all a lovely Christmas break, and all the best in 2025!