NRES will be putting on two training sessions aimed at new researchers and PhD students on 22nd October 2014 at the Clinical School. The sessions will be around one hour long and will explain the NRES process, what ethics committees are looking for and other useful information for junior researchers. More information will be available nearer […]
The Culture of Scientific Research
Calling all researchers – what’s it like being you? The Nuffield Council on Bioethics are holding discussion events across the country and will be in Cambridge on Monday 15th September, 11.30-13.00, (coffee in room 5 from 11.00) Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1, University of Cambridge. For more information click here or contact Rhys Morgan […]
Double NIHR funding success for neurosurgical trials
The two successful funding bids, led by Prof Peter Hutchinson and supported by the Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, will allow the roll out of two randomised trials aiming to improve the outcomes of head-injured patients. The RESCUE-ASDH trial (£1.4 million; NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme) is focussing on patients with acute subdural haematomas (ASDH) – […]
New Cambridge Enterprise Office on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge Enterprise, the University’s commercialisation arm, is expanding its reach with the opening of a new office on the first floor of the University’s Clinical School, providing a base on the Addenbrooke’s site for the Cambridge Enterprise Life Sciences team. Cambridge Enterprise is tasked with assisting members of the University to make their ideas more […]
“Trojan Horse” treatment could beat brain tumours
A “Trojan horse” treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists. The ground-breaking technique could eventually be used to treat glioblastoma multiforme, which is the most common and aggressive brain tumour in adults, and notoriously difficult to treat. […]
Scientists identify immune system link to mental illness
Children with higher blood levels of a protein associated with inflammation and infection are at greater risk of developing depression and psychosis in adulthood according to new research, published in JAMA Psychiatry, which suggests a role for the immune system in mental illness. When we are exposed to an infection our immune system fights back; […]
EANS Aesculap prize
Adel Helmy has won this year’s prestigious EANS Aesculap prize for clinical neurosurgical research. The prize will be awarded during the EANS Congress in Prague in October. The importance of Adel’s research is outlined below: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI, head injury) is the commonest cause of death in those aged under 40 years. Despite more […]
ISSF Prize Winners
The University’s Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Management Group is delighted to announce that a Public Engagement Prize has been awarded to Drs Timothy Rittmann and Saber Sami (Dr James Rowe’s lab, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Clinical School). They will be initiating an exciting project to engage the public, including […]
Message from the Regius | September 2014
I have now been in Cambridge for almost exactly two years. Most of the time it feels as if I only arrived yesterday! Three things that continue to strike me about it are the following. First, the breadth and depth of scientific excellence across the Clinical School, the associated Institutions on the site including the […]
