I attended the annual Cancer Centre symposium last week which included excellent talks from scientists in the Clinical School, from Biochemistry, and also from the Babraham and Sanger Institutes. The Cancer Centre has a compelling vision, which is to harness Cambridge Science in order to change the way we treat cancer. We heard the excellent […]
Breakthrough for spinal cord injury research
A team from the Department of Neurosciences have created a device that could one day restore bladder function to patients with a severed spinal cord. Researchers have discovered that electrodes wrapped around bundles of nerves can interpret signals that say the bladder is full. The device has worked on rats, and the challenge now is […]
Cancer Research UK honours two Cambridge researchers
Professor Sir Bruce Ponder, Department of Oncology has been presented with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by Cancer Research UK. The award recognises his contribution to the identification and understanding of genetic susceptibility to breast cancer and other common cancers, as well as his achievements in building cancer research in Cambridge into a world-renowned centre […]
Link between ACE inhibitors and acute kidney injury
ACE inhibitors and related drugs known as angiotensin receptor antagonists (ARAs) are among the most frequently prescribed medicines in UK clinical practice, used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney problems. There have been concerns about a link between these drugs and kidney function but for the first time researchers […]
Athena SWAN Awards Ceremony
Dr Eleanor Bolton, Department of Surgery, attended the Athena SWAN Awards Ceremony in London earlier this month to collect the Silver award on behalf of the School. Dr Bolton, who was part of the team responsible for compiling the successful submission, was presented with the award by Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Emeritus Professor of Polymer Science […]
New urine test to identify type 1 diabetes risks
Up to 40 per cent of young people with type 1 diabetes may go on to develop heart and kidney disease. Now, thanks to research funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Ltd (JRDF), Diabetes UK, and the British Heart Foundation (BHF), simple urine tests could identify those at risk. In the first study of […]
