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 […]
Major Funding Boost for Clinical Research
A partnership led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded the University of Cambridge £25 million to provide cutting–edge equipment and infrastructure for its clinical research, from imaging single disease cells through to improved targeting of treatments for patients. The awards are part of a major round of funding under the Clinical Research Infrastructure […]
New Deputy Head of Clinical School
Peter Jones has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of the Clinical School after serving for fourteen years as Head of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. In an interview about his new appointment, Peter explains what it was that prompted his change of role, and what his ambitions are for the Clinical School. […]
Message from the Regius
On Monday the Clinical School hosted a very successful visit by Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1985. The visit was organised by the Nobel Foundation, with the aim of inspiring young scientists. Adam Smith from the Foundation explained that they have taken Nobel Prize winners […]
Pilkington Teaching Prizes 2014-15
The Vice-Chancellor has invited Schools each to put forward two nominations for this academic year’s Pilkington Teaching Prizes. The Prizes were inaugurated and endowed by Sir Alastair Pilkington to acknowledge excellence in teaching, and are funded from the Cambridge Foundation Fund for Teaching Prizes. This year’s Prizes will be awarded by the Vice-Chancellor in June […]
Taking a shot at Parkinsons
Just one shot of dopamine cells derived from stem cells could be enough to reverse many of the features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) for decades – and the barriers to developing such a treatment are finally being overcome. Professor Roger Barker has a dream: by the time he retires in 15 years, he would like […]
