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The Academy of Medical Sciences each year elects leading medical scientists from hospitals, academia, industry and the public service to support their mission to advance biomedical and health research and its translation into benefits for society.
Up to three-quarters of epilepsy-related deaths in young adults across Scotland may be avoidable, according to new study.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Patrick Wild Centre’s new 10 year PhD scheme: The Winefride and Booth Smith Studentships.
Dr Jenna Gregory (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) and Dr Mathew Horrocks (School of Chemistry) are part of an international consortium that has been awarded 8.4 million Dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the molecular underpinnings of functional impairments in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD).
Last month our own Dr Clare Durrant (Race Against Dementia - Dyson Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) appeared on the BBC programme 'Good Morning Britain’ with Formula One motor racing and Scottish legend Sir Jackie Stewart.
After a five year project, Professor Peter Brophy and colleagues from the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences have published a comprehensive paper in eLife that outlines a new mechanism during the early processes in the formation of nodes of Ranvier - the involvement of early clusters of highly mobile nodal protein complexes.
This week we waved a fond farewell to Professor Catherina Becker and Dr Thomas Becker (both Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) as they moved to Germany to take up new Professorial positions at the Centre for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden. And Catherina was today named as a receipient of a 2022 Alexander van Humboldt Professorship!
Dr Thomas Watson, Dr Sally Till and Professor Peter Kind (all Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) are part of a Europe-wide consortium that has been awarded 4.5 million Euro from the European Research Council for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network to explore the brain circuits that underlie emotional behaviour. The award creates a Virtual Institute of seven European universities and nine industry/charity partners and will support 15 PhD students working across the consortium over the next four years.
Professor Craig Ritchie’s PREVENT Dementia programme forms part of at new study, led by University of Glasgow, that will seek to understand the lifelong consequences of physical abuse on the brain.
Dr Donncha Mullin, and Dr Rob Stewart (both Clinical Brain Sciences, Psychiatry) have worked with partners in Malawi, the Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project (SMMHEP) to help address this problem, by launching the ‘Malawi Quick Guide to Mental Health’ app, which is aimed at the busy primary health worker in Malawi.