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Congratulations to Dr Rozanna Meijboom and colleagues from the MS imaging group, who have awarded funding by the MS Society to undertake a pilot (preliminary) study called CORD-MS.
The Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence was officially launched on Thursday on 30 January 2025 at the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR).
Last year, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) hosted a remarkable evening at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh as part of its Alumni Voices series, featuring a conversation between two of the UK’s leading medical researchers: Professor Joanna Wardlaw CBE and Professor James Leiper.
Congratulations to Dr Aja Murray and the DigiCAT team for receiving the Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health. DigiCAT (Digital Counterfactual Analysis Tool) is an app that analyses cause and effect in observational mental health data. This can accelerate progress in identifying potential intervention targets.
Edinburgh Neuroscience will be moving to a new site in early 2025. Watch this space :)
A child-centred suite of resources for parents and teachers of neurodivergent children – the first of its kind to be based on research – launched today.
Data scientists and clinical researchers will use brain scans from the entire Scottish population to build a software tool that they hope will be able to predict a person’s risk of dementia.
Congratulations to Professor Tara Spires-Jones who has received the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The prize recognizes the senior author of the most impactful study on the biology of Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions published during the past two years, you can read the article here:
The Academy of Medical Sciences has just announced 58 new Fellows elected this year and we are delighted to share that five out of six researchers from the University of Edinburgh are working in neuroscience and related fields.
By- Zita Francsics
Did you know that epilepsy affects 0.5-1 % of children worldwide? That’s roughly the same as the prevalence of diabetes. Epilepsy is unfortunately an incredibly common condition, yet very little is known about this disease by the public.