College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Inaugural lectures spring/summer 2022

An archive of our spring/summer inaugural lectures series 2022.

Previous lectures

 

Future therapies for type 1 diabetes - Professor Shareen Forbes

Video: Future therapies for type 1 diabetes - Professor Shareen Forbes
After a century of insulin could cell transplants be the future? The discovery of insulin was a breakthrough that changed entire futures for people with type 1 diabetes but using insulin as a therapy has the potential side-effect of creating dangerously low blood sugar levels. Professor Shareen Forbes is leading work to overcome this problem by changing how diabetes is treated. Together with her colleagues, she is trying to improve the success of islet cell transplants so that people can generate insulin themselves and solve the blood sugar level challenge without injecting insulin. Recorded Tuesday 21 June 2022 at Shirley Hall, Chancellor’s Building, BioQuarter.

 

After a century of insulin could cell transplants be the future?

The discovery of insulin was a breakthrough that changed entire futures for people with type 1 diabetes but using insulin as a therapy has the potential side-effect of creating dangerously low blood sugar levels.

Professor Shareen Forbes is leading work to overcome this problem by changing how diabetes is treated. Together with her colleagues, she is trying to improve the success of islet cell transplants so that people can generate insulin themselves and solve the blood sugar level challenge without injecting insulin. 

Recorded Tuesday 21 June 2022 at Shirley Hall, Chancellor’s Building, BioQuarter.

 

All our futures - Professor Liz Grant

Video: All our futures: Professor Liz Grant
Recording of inaugural lecture by Professor Liz Grant, entitled "All our Futures".

 

Professor Liz Grant works with partners in East Africa and South Asia to improve end of life care for people who live in parts of the world where poverty and conflict are made even more challenging by climate change.  Her lecture explores how caring for people and for our planet intertwines with sustainable development goals.

Recorded 31 May 2022 at Shirley Hall and broadcast live via Zoom. 

 

Horse sense - Professor Scott Pirie

 

Professor Scott Pirie, Personal Chair of Equine Clinical Sciences, tells the story of his career in equine clinical research. He shares progress on his equine asthma research and highlights of his work on grass sickness and intestinal paralysis.

Recorded Tuesday 26 April at the Roslin Institute and broadcast over Zoom.