First I’d like to highlight two opportunities. The Rosetrees Trust is a medical research charity for which I chair a Scientific Advisory Board. This year it will award a £250,000 prize for an interdisciplinary project applying chemistry or physics to biomedical problems. Several institutions including Cambridge have each been given the opportunity to put forward […]
Inaugural annual public health lecture by Dr Yusef
The public health community, with the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic and Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, welcomed Dr Yusuf at the Inaugural annual Public Health Lecture, which he delivered on 3rd November 2014. Dr Salim Yusuf is Professor of Medicine, and Executive […]
Five brain challenges we can overcome in the next decade
Professor Barbara Sahakian was invited to write an article for Sir John Beddington, previous Government Chief Scientific Adviser, on the subject of achieving brain health for a flourishing society within the next decade. In addition, she was asked to write a piece based on this article for The Conversation. Disorders of the brain pose the […]
New Professor of Respiratory Biology from 1st December 2014
Andres Floto has been appointed as Professor of Respiratory Biology from 1st December 2014. Professor Floto graduated from the Cambridge MB-PhD programme in 1997, having obtained a First in Natural Sciences and a PhD studying macrophage signalling. He undertook clinical training in London and returned to Cambridge in 2002 on an AMS/MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship […]
The 2014 World Technology Summit and Awards
Barbara Sahakian has been shortlisted for the 2014 World Technology Summit and Awards. The finalists come from every walk of life and background imaginable, from seasoned academics who have studied their industry for years, to normal people whose lives changed through a single experience. In an interview for The World Technology Network, she discusses what […]
Cambridge University Strengthens Long Standing Partnership with Astra Zeneca
The University of Cambridge has announced four new collaborations with AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune. The existing strategic partnership between the University of Cambridge, AstraZeneca and MedImmune includes a substantial oncology research programme and co-location of AstraZeneca scientists at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, the largest single facility conducting […]
WOW Cambridge
The University has partnered with Southbank Centre London, to hold WOW Cambridgein October 2014 and March 2015 to bring together women and girls from across the community to participate and enjoy the WOW experience. WOW – Women of the World is a festival of talks, debates, music, film, comedy, performance and conversation that celebrates the […]
Challenges in Big Data – A Cambridge Perspective
We are in an age of increasing data volumes, with the ability to measure and store data on a scale never before seen. Across all areas of research, new approaches in collection, processing, storage and analysis, are required in order to derive new knowledge and deliver benefits from our unprecedented access to information. This afternoon […]
Wellcome Trust PhD for Clinicians Programme in Cambridge
The University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are offering seven Wellcome Trust funded PhD fellowships for clinicians to start by December 2015. This prestigious scheme enables clinicians to undertake placements in different laboratories/groups, in order to make an informed choice of project and supervisor, leading to a higher PhD degree. Fellowship support […]
The Max Perutz Science Writing Award
This year, Julia Gottwald, a PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry, was shortlisted for her article about obsessive compulsive disorder. The Max Perutz Science Writing Award aims to encourage and recognise outstanding written communication among MRC PhD students. The annual competition challenges entrants to write an 800-word article for the general public answering the […]
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