Research
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Research centres
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
A new MRC Centre for Reproductive Health has been awarded to the University of Edinburgh to further research into conditions that affect reproductive ability and the health of men and women. The new £1 million centre grant is in addition to £12 million of research programme grants recently awarded by the MRC to leading reproductive health scientists in Edinburgh.
The new Centre will bring together scientists who have outstanding strengths in reproductive biology, stem cells, inflammation, development, hormonal disease and imaging. There will be a strong focus on finding ways to translate discoveries for patient benefit.
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
The Centre for Inflammation Research was established to bring together internationally outstanding researchers in inflammation harnessing the skills of both basic and clinical scientists.
The Centre aims to promote the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of inflammatory diseases through interdisciplinary study of the initiation, regulation, and resolution of inflammatory responses and provision of an outstanding environment for research training in the field.
Within a grouping of over 120 researchers, there is a strong clinical influence based around respiratory medicine, renal medicine and histopathology.
Centre for Population Health Sciences
The Centre provides a focus for high quality multidisciplinary research in topics of population health importance, typically involving the development and application of statistical, epidemiological and social science methods.
It promotes collaborative working between Centre investigators (epidemiologists, statisticians and social scientists in public health and primary care) and biomedical scientists and clinicians.
- Co-Director: Professor S Cunningham-Burley
- Co-Director: Professor H Campbell
- Centre for Population Health Sciences
University of Edinburgh/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science
The mission of the University of Edinburgh/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science is to promote excellence in research and training in sciences relevant to cardiovascular disease.
It was one of the first Centres to be established in the Faculty of Medicine.
The Centre has seven main research groups and a close association with other Centres in the Queen's Medical Research Institute.
It is a well funded medical research centre receiving major support form the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, and the Medical Research Council.
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
The MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) brings together world leading basic stem cell research with established clinical excellence to deliver a "bench-to-bedside" approach aimed at developing new treatments for major diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease and liver failure.
The Centre's mission is to gain fundemental understanding of stem cells, to use this knowledge to improve human health and to provide leadership in training the next generation of basic and clinical scientists in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
This article was published on Sep 14, 2011