Congratulations to Dr Paul Morris who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship for his project entitled “Computational Modelling to Improve the Assessment and Management of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease”. Coronary artery disease, the world’s leading cause of death, is caused by narrowings in the arteries of the heart. Patient’s…
Continue reading →Dr Ryan MacDonald, a JG Graves Medical Research Fellow in the Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease (IICD), has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Science (£99,631). Ryan’s grant entitled “Cellular and molecular mechanisms of glial patterning and morphogenesis” will combine confocal time-lapse imaging, transcriptomics, cell specific transgenes and CRISPR-based mutagenesis in…
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Dr Alex Rothman (from the Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease) has been awarded a Wellcome Clinical Career Development Fellowship to pursue his aim to establish SMURF-1 inhibition as a novel anti proliferative therapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Alex will spend time undertaking his research in Sheffield, Cambridge and at Novartis in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Continue reading →MRI baby scanner is one of only two in the world Miniature size scanner means minimal movement of newborns, dramatically reducing risk to babies MRI images provide more detailed clinical information than bedside ultrasound scans allowing more accurate diagnosis A ground breaking prototype ‘miniature’ MRI scanner for babies has been installed at The Jessop Wing…
Continue reading →Scientists reveal how birds can carry potentially fatal infections to humans but not get ill. White blood cell in birds blocks growth of fatal infection. Discovery could help in preventing humans from contracting diseases including bird flu. Scientists have discovered that a specialised white blood cell found in birds can destroy a potentially fatal fungal…
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