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 […]
