Dr Penelope (Penny) Ottewell, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, has recently been awarded a prestigious New Investigator Research Grant worth £409,208 from the Medical Research Council to investigate the role of IL-B in breast cancer bone metastasis. Within the same week Dr Ottewell also secured two additional grants totalling >165,000…
Continue reading →Congratulations to Professor Mark J Wilkinson, Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism, Department of Oncology & Metabolism, who has been elected president of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, with effect from March 2017 for a period of 2 years.
Continue reading →Title – Mesenchymal stem cells: differentiation, authophagy and apoptosis Speaker – Dr Francois Vallette, Director of Research 1st Class Inserm, Universite de Nantes Time – Wednesday, 7 September 2016, 1-2 pm Venue – LT3, F Floor, Medical School Biography – Dr Francois Vallette is Director of Research, 1st Class Inserm at the Universite de Nantes,…
Continue reading →Professor Eugene McCloskey, Professor of Adult Bone Disease, Department of Oncology & Metabolism has been awarded the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Medal of Achievement. This Medal, presented annually, recognises an individual researcher who has significantly advanced the field of osteoporosis through his original and outstanding scientific contributions and underlines the important aspects of the IOF’s mission…
Continue reading →Scientists at the University of Sheffield are launching a pioneering study to investigate if a simple extra nutrient can boost male fertility. Studies have already shown that lycopene, the red pigment compound found most readily in sun-ripened tomatoes, can boost sperm count by up to 70 per cent, as well as conferring other benefits on…
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