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Standing on the shoulders of giants

21 November, 2018

Professor Tom Gillingwater delivered his inaugural lecture to a packed anatomy lecture theatre on…

Zhejiang biomedical alliance wins major award

16 November, 2018

Edinburgh’s alliance with Zhejiang University has received a leading international business award

Experts teach tour guides the real story of Burke and Hare

24 October, 2018

They are among the world’s most notorious serial killers but the details of their story are often…

Partnership for Enhanced and Blended Learning

10 October, 2018

Dr Ewan MacLeod from the Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine and the Biomedical Teaching…

HEA Fellowship success

08 October, 2018

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

Success for Inaugural Anatomy Training Programme

01 October, 2018

Anatomy@Edinburgh successfully hosted the first ‘One Day Review of Whole Body Anatomy’ as part of a…

UK-India project combats infections threat with diagnostics

01 October, 2018

A £3 million interdisciplinary research project is to address the growing threat of drug-resistant…

The Long Wait for a New Drug for Human African Trypanosomiasis

28 September, 2018

New findings have been published in Trends in Parasitology by Catriona Baker, a medical student,…

Insights into neuromuscular diseases published in Brain

28 September, 2018

New discovery reveals insights into both spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth…

The journey of the Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute

27 September, 2018

This piece was written by Sophie Craik and featured on the Edinburgh Global website

ZJE shortlisted for top British Business Award

27 September, 2018

The Zhejiang - Edinburgh Institute has been shortlisted for the Education Institutional Partnership…

Student spotlight: Medical Sciences student and champion piper Harris MacLennan

17 September, 2018

Medical Sciences student Harris MacLennan returns to his second year at the University of Edinburgh…

TEDx talk - The making and keeping of memory

29 August, 2018

Professor Richard Morris (Professor of Neuroscience, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, and 2016…

New Insight into the Maturation of miRNAs

29 August, 2018

Dr Gracjan Michlewski's lab, in the Division of Pathway and Infection Medicine, have published…

Many Miles for Mary Runners visit dementia research labs

01 August, 2018

The Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences hosted a special group of athletes who are raising funds…

Can we cure jet lag with eye drops?

06 June, 2018

Prof Mike Ludwig (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) features in a short film about his work…

Canoeist Eilidh Gibson inducted to Hall of Fame

06 June, 2018

Congratulations to Eilidh Gibson, a current Biomedical Sciences student, who has been inducted into…

BMS Summer Graduations 2018

31 May, 2018

We celebrated the success of our Biomedical Sciences graduates on Tuesday 10th July 2018.

A warm welcome to our new colleagues

29 May, 2018

We welcome our latest cohort of Academic Track lecturers who joined Biomedical Sciences in 2018.…

DIPM host 2nd year students from Denmark

29 May, 2018

The DIPM welcomed a group of student visitors from University College of South Denmark on 22 May…