Juan Ignacio Castrillo (1963-2017)

It is with great sadness that we report the death of a former member of CSBC, Juan Castrillo. Juan was a very scholarly, kind, and generous person. His breadth of knowledge of our science was amazing and, and even after he left Cambridge to work in his brother's biotech company in Spain, he continued to send colleagues in the Centre, the Department, and across Europe very focussed information on recent publications relevant to their research.

How we adapt to life at 5400 m - Jules Griffin, James West and collaborators have published a paper in PNAS

Jules Griffin and James West of Biochemistry, with collaborators from PDN, UCL and Southampton have published a paper in PNAS which addresses how Sherpas adapt to high altitudes faster than Westerners as part of the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition to Everest Basecamp.