Research by Marta Seczynska, led by Paul Lehner (both Medicine, CITIID) in collaboration with Sergio Martinez Cuesta (Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca) shows how the HUSH complex protects the human genome from foreign (retroelement) invasion. The human genome is under constant threat from invasion by mobile genetic elements. These include viruses (such as HIV) and retrotransposons (Line […]
Rhodri Wilson Memorial Fund 2022
The Fund Managers will award grants towards medical elective travel in 2022. Individual awards will be influenced by other grants and, in any case, are unlikely to exceed £250 each. Clinical medical students from any Cambridge College are eligible to apply. Applications for the support of electives in developing countries are particularly welcome. The application […]
Climate emergency declaration
The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine is joining many other healthcare organisations (Health Declares) in declaring that the global climate and ecological emergency is a major crisis for health and healthcare. We agree with recent statements from the WHO and in The Lancet that climate change is an urgent global health threat. Extreme […]
Clinical School Annual Distinguished Lecture 2021
Clinical School Annual Distinguished Lecture Recorded: 23 September 2021 Speaker: Wendy Bickmore, Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh. Talk Title: “Function and dysfunction in the non-coding genome” Professor Bickmore’s talk focused on non-coding genetic elements called “enhancers”, how they regulate our genes often over […]
New risk calculator to help save many more lives from heart attack and stroke
A new risk calculator will better predict people at high risk of heart and circulatory diseases years before they strike, and is ready for use across the UK and Europe, according to research published today in the journal European Heart Journal. This risk tool… will fit seamlessly into current prevention programmes with substantial real-world […]
Study shows brain differences in interpreting physical signals in mental health disorders
Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently. In spite of the diversity of psychological symptoms, there appears to be a common factor in how physical signals are processed differently by the brain in mental health disorders: it shows how intertwined physical and mental […]
Many of us could carry up to 17kg of fat due to a change in a single gene
New research has found that one in every 340 people might carry a mutation in a single gene that makes them more likely to have a greater weight from early childhood and, by 18 years of age, they could be up to 30 pounds heavier with the excess weight likely to be mostly fat. Our […]
Unhealthy patterns of diet, exercise, and sleep linked to high risk of cardiovascular disease in autistic people
Autistic people have far greater risks of long term physical health conditions than others, but the reasons for this remain unclear. New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that unhealthy lifestyle habits may be an important contributing factor. These findings help us to better understand the experiences of autistic adults, and have wider […]
MRC Biostatistics Unit real-time tracking of COVID-19
The MRC Biostatistics Unit have published a new report on our real-time tracking of the COVID-19 pandemic. This information is helping the government to track the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. MRC BSU have highlighted their latest findings and provided interpretation of what these findings mean. MRC BSU have also explained their recent model and […]
New Head of Department for Psychiatry BMA role model
Congratulations to Tamsin Ford who will become the new Head of Department for Psychiatry, from 1 April 2021. Tamsin has been Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cambridge since October 2019 and before that was at Exeter Medical School. Her research focuses on the interface between mental health and education, childhood psychiatric epidemiology and […]
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