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MRC grant success

18 July, 2023

Congratulations to Dr Calvin Chan and Profs John Mason and David Price (Centre for Discovery Brain…

Cousin lab publish new findings in Cell Reports

20 June, 2023

Congratulations to the Cousin lab on their new study which discovered a new function for an…

New Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales

30 May, 2023

Congratulations to Prof Jamie Davies, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, who was recently elected…

HEA Fellowship success

18 May, 2023

Congratulations to all our staff who have recently gained Fellowships from the Higher Education…

Do bats hold the secret to longer life and inflammatory diseases in humans?

16 May, 2023

Scientists have discovered a protein in bats that could unlock new strategies to combat ageing and…

Dementia study shows how toxic proteins spread

16 May, 2023

Fresh insights into the spread of damaging proteins that build up in the brains of people with…

Tissue and Cell Engineering Society Oral Presentation Award

10 May, 2023

Congratulations to Vinothini Prabhakaran, a PhD student from the Paxton Lab, won 2nd place for her…

Student takeover - Christina and Vinothini

10 May, 2023

Hi everyone! We are Christina and Vinothini, two PhD students in Human Anatomy and Tissue…

Diversity Prize for Edinburgh neuroscientist (article by SCOPE magazine)

10 May, 2023

Edinburgh neuroscientist, Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots has been announced as the 2023 winner of the…

CMVM staff recognition awards

04 May, 2023

Congratulations to Morag Laidlaw, Head of BMS Research Management, for winning the Outstanding…

Neuroscience student through to Three Minute Thesis Final 2023

04 May, 2023

Congratulations to Arish Mudra Rakshasa, a Neuroscience PhD student, who is one of nine finalists…

Ferrier Prize Lecture 2023 - Prof Richard Morris

27 April, 2023

Congratulations to Professor Richard Morris, winner of the Ferrier Medal and Lecture, who presented…

Fertility conference win for Cara and Scarlett

10 February, 2023

Congratulation to Cara and Scarlett, final year Reproductive Biology BSc and Biomedical Sciences…

New paper in Neuron sheds new light on the fragile X protein mystery

26 January, 2023

A new study from the Osterweil lab, (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences), shows that brain cells…

CMVM Staff recognition awards 2022

08 December, 2022

This years’ CMVM Staff recognition awards ceremony held in the Playfair Library were a wonderful…

Drug shows promise for motor neuron disease

08 December, 2022

A drug typically used to treat enlarged prostates and high blood pressure has shown promise as a…

Rowing the Atlantic (article by Charlotte Stapley for the Bulletin magazine)

07 December, 2022

This December, Rufus Mitchell-Heggs, a Computational Neuroscience PhD student in the Centre for…

Anatomy Public Workshops return in 2023

27 October, 2022

Anatomy@Edinburgh are pleased to announce the planned return of the Anatomy Public Workshop Series…

Blog post by Student Rep Aditi Jain

28 September, 2022

Student Rep and Pharmacology student Aditi Jain blogs about her tour of the AstraZeneca Discovery…

A celebration of the scientific career of Prof Gareth Leng

15 September, 2022

The Journal of Neuroendocrinology has published a special issue to mark Professor Gareth Leng'…