Anatomy news from 2015 November 2015 Professor Findlater gives his Inaugural lecture Professor Gordon Findlater gave his Inaugural Lecture, entitled Anatomy Matters? Anatomy Matters! on the 23rd November 2015 in the historic Anatomy Lecture Theatre. Gordon spoke about his successful career in Anatomy here at Edinburgh and his valuble contributions to exciting new developments in the field of anatomical teaching and public engagement using ground-breaking technologies. Further details and photographs of the event can be found here New publication from the Gillingwater Lab A new research article from the Gillingwater Lab, focussed on the neuromuscular disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), has been published in the Journal of Anatomy. Congratulations Rachael and Tom! To access the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.12419/abstract Professor Tom Gillingwater's profile Anatomy researcher leading a new £1.3m UK SMA Research Consortium Image Professor Tom Gillingwater is to be part of a new collaborative initiative for Spinal Muscular Atrophy research in the UK over the next 3 years. The consortium will consist of world-class research/clinical experts based in Oxford, Edinburgh, London and Sheffield Universities. It will be led jointly by Professor Kevin Talbot (University of Oxford) and Professor Gillingwater. The intention is to form an initial nucleus that will, in time, draw together other leading UK scientists. The new UK Research consortium is the first of its kind for SMA and is being announced on 29th September 2015 as part of the first ever UK SMA Awareness Week. It has come about because of impressive recent progress, leading to an ever-increasing need for research collaboration, not just within the SMA field, but in the overlap areas with other neuromuscular conditions like Muscular Dystrophy and Motor Neurone Disease. The main aims are to: i) further develop existing drug targets and identify new neuroprotective therapies to maintain function throughout the lives of people living with SMA, and; ii) identify improved ways of delivering treatments in order to maximise benefit throughout the body. Joanna Mitchell, CEO of The SMA Trust comments: These are exciting times in SMA research and for the new UK research consortium. Recent years have seen rapid advances, with several companies now actively pursuing clinical trials for potential treatments. Whilst a cure for SMA remains the ultimate goal, we also recognise that, for the time being, ‘success’ is equally likely to come in the form of combinations of treatments that improve the quality of life of people living with SMA. September 2015 Image Royal Society Award for the Paxton Lab Dr Jennifer Paxton has been awarded a research grant from The Royal Society to fund her tissue-engineering research. Jennifer will be investigating new ways to grow artificial bone in the laboratory using novel stimulation techniques. This grant will help fund this research and help to buy specialised equipment for this work. August 2015 Behind the Collections at the Anatomical Museum An MSc student in Science Communiation and Public Engagement, Kyle Viterbo, has created digital media resources for the Anatomical Museum. You can visit her website here to listen/watch the resources and fill in a short survey. June 2015 Art and Anatomy Edinburgh presents 'Danny Quirk - Living Lectures' Image Join Art and Anatomy Edinburgh for a fantastic live event, where you will have the opportunity to get a glimpse of what lies under your skin through art. For more information about this excitng event, please visit the link below. Art and Anatomy presents 'Danny Quirk- Living Lectures'. May 2015 Anatomy Public Workshops article published in The Lancet An article based on our series of Public Anatomy Worshops has been published in The Lancet, a prestigous medical journal. Should members of the public,too, not be able to learn anatomy using the ‘fabric of Nature’? Gillingwater & Findlater, 2015 The full article can be found here or viewed as a PDF using the link below. Document Lancet anatomy article (282.87 KB / PDF) March 2015 Edinburgh Anatomist wins Young Investigator Award Image Dr Jennifer Paxton has been awarded the Larry Hench Young Investigator award 2015 from the UK Society of Biomaterials (UKSB). This prize is given to young researchers in recognition of outstanding and innovative contributions in biomaterials research. As part of this award, Jennifer has been invited to present her work on engineering ligaments at the annual UKSB conference in June. For more information about Dr Paxton's research visit the links below. Dr Paxton's anatomy profile The Paxton Lab website March 2015 Anatomy Public Workshops in the News Recent news coverage of our ground-breaking series of public anatomy workshops can be read using the links below Independent article Telegraph article Image January 2015 Innovative Anatomical Hologram Our 3D Hologram of the human body is believed to be the largest anatomical hologram ever made and the first anatomy teaching tool of its kind in the world. It was produced in collaboration with Holoxica and received a Commended award at the Excellence in Holography Awards 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey in December 2014. Publication date 18 Jan, 2017
