2017

Dr Alan Healy (Biomedical Science 2011) has been named as an honouree at the 2017 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists, held by the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences.

Melanie Reid, an award winning journalist, writes about her visit to our third year Medical Sciences students, to talk about her experiences as a tetraplegic after a riding accident.

Fresh insights into the links between nerve and muscle cells could transform our understanding of the human nervous system and conditions relating to impaired movement.

Insights into how a key chemical disrupts brain cells in a common type of dementia have been revealed by scientists.

The Scottish medical professions are celebrating today’s decision by the UK Supreme Court which clears the way for the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 early next year, which sets a minimum unit price of 50 pence per unit for alcohol.

Anatomy@Edinburgh are holding their first 'Anatomy in Art' exhibition featuring artwork by Edinburgh College of Art undergraduate students.

Aboriginal people who lived on the Canary Islands before European colonisation originated from North Africa, a DNA study has found.

Congratulations to Eilidh Gibson, a 4th year Biomedical Sciences student, who was part of Team GB C1 Team who took home gold, and was also fourth in the individual races at the Championships.

A new study from the Gillingwater lab shows that a key protein involved in Spinal Muscular Atrophy plays an important role in regulating the generation of new proteins in neurons.

The partnership with Zhejiang University is the first of its type for the University and for China.

A new study suggests a commonly used jet lag drug could ease painful side effects of chemotherapy.

Anatomy@Edinburgh joined colleagues from the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine on Tuesday 15th August for Terrific Scientific: The Human Body with BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals.

The face of a 19th century killer has been recreated using forensic techniques and is on display in a new exhibition.

Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their nerve connections could hold clues to new therapies for people with spinal cord injuries.

Scientists have discovered how the brain can self-correct disruptions in processing, pointing the way towards possible new treatments for autism and intellectual disability.

The Biomedical Sciences Learning and Teaching Forum 2017 was held on the 21st of June in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the Biomedical Teaching Organisation.

The Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine (DIPM) welcomed 20 visitors, all families with children, to its lab at the Chancellor’s Building at Little France on Saturday 24th June 2017.

Dr. Chris Henstridge and Dr. Tara Spires-Jones (Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems) have published new findings which suggest overactive scavenger cells in the brain may contribute to neurodegeneration.

Congratulations to Robbie Miller, an intercalating medical student, who has been selected to present his Physiology Honours project at the British Orthopaedic Research Society meeting in September.

We talk to Dr Tara Spires-Jones, Chancellor’s Fellow and interim Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems. Her research group studies brain changes in ageing and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's.

Congratulations to Professor Tom Gillingwater on his grant success from MND Scotland for developing new therapies to protect motor neurones against the many forms of Motor Neurone Disease.

Prof David Lyons has produced a short video with the University about the quest to find therapies to repair nerve damage caused by multiple sclerosis.

New research shows that a widely used diabetes medication could help with a common inherited form of autism.

The Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine (DIPM) at the University of Edinburgh will welcome up to 40 attendees to visit the Chancellor's Building and the DIPM labs on Saturday 24th June 2017.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Debbie Shaw has been awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Dementia researchers across the UK are joining forces to find new ways of tackling the condition.

Academic Families, Biomedical Sciences' peer support group, has won the Impact Award for Best Peer Support Group for 2017.

Biomedical Sciences has been shortlisted for an Impact Award in the category of Best Peer Support Group for the Academic Families programme.

Professor Welburn's appointment was formally announced on 14th March 2017 at a ceremony at the International campus of Zhejiang University in Haining, China.

Congratulations to Honours student Harry Newmark, whose project has been published as a Hypothesis and Theory paper in Frontiers in Immunology.

Congratulation to Dr Till Bachmann, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, who has been appointed to the Longitude Prize Advisory Panel.

The Simons Foundation has pledged £20 million for pioneering studies into the biological mechanisms that underpin changes in brain development associated with autism.

The anatomy team were joined by almost 100 of our wonderful students on Saturday 18 February to deliver an exciting afternoon of anatomy-themed activities at the National Museum of Scotland.

Students team up with leading health experts to host a public event highlighting the risks posed by antibiotic resistance.

Congratulations to the Sieger lab on publishing their study on a new zebrafish microglia-glioblastoma model, which uncovered new findings on the complex interactions between microglia and glioblastoma cells.

Congratulations to Prof Catherina Becker and her lab who, as part of a European team, have been awarded £1.1 million to investigate how zebrafish are able to repair and replace damaged nerve cells.

In the first of our series focusing on public engagement by the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, Cass Li talks about how she uses origami to help students to understand plasmids.