2019

Our current MSc students Charlie Guy, Alice Roberts, Sophie Mok and their supervisor Abduelmenem Alashkham have presented a rare case with combined variation of the sciatic nerve and piriformis at the British Association of Clinical Anatomists conference.

Congratulations to Victoria following her recent accreditation with the Higher Education Academy at the level of Fellow.

Anatomy@Edinburgh are looking for student volunteers to help run new outreach events with the National Museum of Scotland in local hospitals.

A team of researchers from Anatomy@Edinburgh and Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, led by Tom Gillingwater, Ross Jones and Richard Skipworth, has published new research into the underlying biology of cancer cachexia.

The ceremony marked the return and repatriation of historical skeletal remains of nine Vedda individuals to the Vedda of Sri Lanka.

Dr Stephen Maclean, a Lecturer in Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, is set to appear in an upcoming BBC Radio 4 Documentary discussing the emerging science of ‘Forensic Hand Identification’.

Victoria McCulloch, Teaching Fellow in Anatomy, presented the creation of the Anatomy@Edinburgh Contemporary Art Collection at the 2019 Institute of Medical Illustrators Conference in Belfast.

Anatomy@Edinburgh is delighted to have hosted the first in a series of Study Days for Higher Surgical Training in collaboration with the Scotland Deanery.

Join the Anatomists at the University of Edinburgh to find out about postgraduate options in Human Anatomy.

Christopher Callaghan has been awarded 1st place for his presentation at the 11th annual meeting of Foot and Ankle Scotland.

A new anatomy book describing the wonder and beauty of the human body has been published by Big Picture Press as part of the ‘Welcome to the Museum’ series, and in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection.

This summer we were joined by Lily Wilson, a current student from Inveralmond Community High School in Livingston.

Hamad Alsaykhan, PhD student in the Paxton Lab, successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘Design, development, and assessment of novel 3-dimensional co-culture systems to model musculoskeletal interfaces’ on the 30th August 2019.

Our great current MSc students have just finished their MSc in Human Anatomy.

Jeremy Mortimer, PhD student in the Paxton Lab, was recently awarded the best (joint) poster prize at the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Association of Anatomists (IFAA) in London, 9-11 August 2019.

An important new work on applied anatomy for anaesthetic practice has been published by Cambridge University Press.

The Paxton Lab has been awarded a 3-year research grant from Orthopaedic Research UK.

This August the Anatomical Museum’s phrenology collection, one of the most important of its kind, will be featured in talks, a radio programme and an exhibition in Edinburgh.

Congratulations to Sameer following his recent accreditation with the Higher Education Academy at the level of Fellow.

The Anatomical Museum is delighted to introduce Georgi Gill, our poet-in-residence for 2019-20.

We were delighted to host a group of students from Westmont College in California for a week!

A new study from the Murray lab has shown that the degeneration of synapses and axons within young mice occurs slower than in adult mice.

Lyndsay Murray and her team have recently been awarded funding from the Wellcome trust funded ISSF competition.

The latest edition to the Anatomy@Edinburgh Contemporary Art Collection was unveiled on Friday 26th April.

We were delighted to welcome artist Lisa Temple-Cox to Anatomy@Edinburgh and the Anatomical Museum to host two artist workshops in April.

Following runner up for Teacher of the Month January 2019, Dr Gemma Hogg, Surgical Anatomy Demonstrator, has been voted by the students as Teacher of the Month April 2019 for the Department of Surgery.

Tom Gillingwater's group, working alongside Professor Kevin Talbot's group at the University of Oxford, have been awarded £493,272 from the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation to undertake cutting-edge research into new therapies for motor neurone disease.

Anatomy@Edinbugh was delighted to host a one-day Trauma Surgery Skills course for Higher Surgical Trainees from the SE Scotland Deanery on 22 February 2019.

Dr Alashkham and his colleagues have reported that for many years, there has been controversy regarding the presence of the glenohumeral ligaments; the aim of the present study was to evaluate the detailed anatomy of these ligaments.

Dr Alashkham and his colleagues have reported that although a sublabral foramen does not require treatment, its association with age, sex or side remains unknown.

Dr Alashkham and his colleagues have reported that the glenoid labrum has an important role in glenohumeral joint stability, yet its morphometric parameters are seldom reported.

An innovative outreach programme focussed on bringing anatomy and tissue engineering into primary schools is set to launch this month in Edinburgh.

Gemma has been awarded runner up Surgical Teacher of the Month for January 2019 by the medical students.

The Anatomical Museum at Teviot Place has had a record breaking start to 2019, welcoming over 1000 visitors in less than a week.

Our ground-breaking series of public anatomy workshops are back for 2019.