Centre news from 2014. Cell division finding could boost understanding of cancer New insights into how the cells in our bodies divide could improve our knowledge of a condition linked to cancer, a study suggests. £2.5 million bid to develop new drugs to target sleeping sickness An initiative is under way to develop new drugs for a devastating tropical disease that threatens almost 70 million people in Africa. Knighthood and Frontiers Award for Adrian Bird Adrian Bird awarded knighthood in the 2014 New Year Honours and the BBVA international Frontiers of Knowledge prize for biomedicine. This article was published on 2024-06-17