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Award for services to sleeping sickness

16 April, 2015

Professor Sue Welburn, Director of the Division of Pathway Medicine has received a prestigious…

Teaching excellence awarded

16 April, 2015

Winners of the 2014 EUSA Teaching Awards, which recognise positive contribution to student learning…

Edinburgh Anatomy workshops

16 April, 2015

March: The Edinburgh Anatomists invite you into one of the oldest medical schools in the country to…

New Fellow to the Royal Society of Edinburgh

16 April, 2015

February: Professor Sue Welburn has been appointed as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

New HoD of Infection and Pathway Medicine

16 April, 2015

Professor Juergen Haas will be taking over as Head of Infection and Pathway Medicine

MRC Grant for Super-Resolution Imaging to Brophy Lab

16 April, 2015

Congratulations to the Brophy lab who have been awarded £765,438 from the Medical Research Council…

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

16 April, 2015

The Anatomy Museum have contributed to a small one-case Christmas display, on the sixth floor of…

New member of FENS-KAVLI

16 April, 2015

January: FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence accepts Tara Spires-Jones as a member.

New Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

16 April, 2015

January: Professor Gordon Findlater has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Commendation at Holography Awards

16 April, 2015

January: The full-length human anatomy hologram commissioned by Prof. Gordon Findlater , has been…

New website for the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre

16 April, 2015

January: The Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre has launched its new website.

School receives Athena SWAN renewal

16 April, 2015

The School of Biomedical Sciences is delighted to announce that it has received a renewal of the…

Spears' Lab awarded first ESHRE grant

16 April, 2015

January: Professor Norah Spears, has been awarded the first research grant by The European Society…

Sugar solution could reduce osteoarthritis surgery

16 April, 2015

January: Dr Andrew Hall and his team have found that adding sugar to the saline solution used to…

New paper in Neuron

16 April, 2015

February: Dr Tara Spires-Jones, CCNS, has collaborated on a paper published in Neuron.

Prof Tony Harmar 1951- 2014

16 April, 2015

The School of Biomedical Sciences was deeply saddened by the death of Prof Tony Harmar on Thursday…

Life unfolding: How the human body creates itself

16 April, 2015

Congratulations to Prof Jamie Davies (CIP) whose book, ‘Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates…

Alzheimer research funding success

16 April, 2015

Dr. Tara Spires-Jones, Chancellor's Fellow and Reader with the Centre for Cognitive and Neural…

Does food addiction exist?

16 April, 2015

Could obesity, in some cases, result from an addiction, and if so, do we need to change the way we…

Putting Pharmacology on the map

16 April, 2015

January: The British Pharmacological Society has presented an award to the School's Department…