January 2013 news

Prestigious prize for Richard Morris

Richard Morris (Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems), Royal Society/Wolfson Professor of Neuroscience, has been named as the co-recipient of this year’s Fondation Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity.

Investigating strategies for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension

Mark Evans in the Centre for Integrative Physiology, was recently awarded £1.1 million by the British Heart Foundation to fund a 5 year Programme Grant entitled. “Angiotensin II and pulmonary arterial hypertension: calcium signalling nanodomains provide the locks and the keys to smooth muscle contraction, relaxation and gene expression”.

Bacteria discovery aids stem cell research

A discovery about the way in which bugs spread throughout the body could help to develop stem cell treatments. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann cells, so that they take on the properties of stem cells.

Researchers in the School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Informatics tracked electrical signals in the part of the brain linked to spatial awareness. The study could help us understand how, if we know a room, we can go into it with our eyes shut and find our way around. Details of the study have been published in the journal ‘Neuron’.

Article in the journal 'Neuron'

Evening News picks up DPM/MHC-S collaborative work

The Edinburgh Evening News published an article on 9th January 2013 highlighting the potential of the point of care test originally developed as part of the Scottish Enterprise Chronic Wound Care project led by the Division Pathway Medicine's Till Bachmann.

Evening News picks up DPM/MHC-S collaborative work