The University’s Mellanby Centre for Bone Research held its annual meeting in November and over 110 people attended this. A particular highlight of the meeting was a history of medicine lecture from Professor Richard Mellanby. The Mellanby Centre for Bone Research was set up within the University of Sheffield 9 years ago and we held…
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Rebecca Hull from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease has been selected for the first ever national PhD Training Programme in Antimicrobial Resistance which was launched by the Medical Research Foundation this autumn. The innovative research conducted by this cohort of 18 students from 16 UK universities will contribute to the…
Continue reading →As a medical physicist, one of my aims is to apply new technology to address medical challenges. During my PhD I explored the use of virtual reality to examine complex data, and soon concluded that this is a potentially influential technology with many applications in medicine. One example is to benefit people with nystagmus. Nystagmus…
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Lecturers from the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology and Orthoptics are proud that the University of Sheffield Nystagmus Information Pack was ‘highly commended’ in the BMA Patient Information Awards 2018. Nystagmus is a clinical condition where the eyes continuously move, rather than stay still. Nystagmus can be congenital or acquired and patients with nystagmus are commonly…
Continue reading →Congratulations to Dr Faith Howard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Inflammation Tumour Targetting Group in Oncology & Metabolism, who has received an award from CRUKs New Investigator Committee to attend a training course for microsurgical cannulation. Feedback from the panel who assessed Faith’s application was that it had a strong scientific rationale and that the…
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