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Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences

About the School

Biomedical Sciences is part of the Edinburgh Medical School. Our research is focused around ten main themes which tackle some of the major global health challenges facing our society and addressing fundamental questions about how we work to gain a better understanding of how we can treat disease and repair our bodies.

Research themes

  • Ageing and Degeneration
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Diagnostics Development
  • Genes and Development
  • Global Health
  • Host Pathogen interaction to determine susceptibility
  • Injury and Repair
  • Signalling, Homeostasis and energy balance
  • Synapses, Circuits and Behaviour
  • Systems Biology/Big data

We comprise the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, Patrick Wild Centre and Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain.

Edinburgh Medical School

Established in 1726, Edinburgh Medical School was the pre-eminent medical centre of the 18th and 19th centuries. Today it retains its status as a leading force internationally in basic-to-clinical translational research and teaching.

We offer you the opportunity to study in an environment where research is an important component of every student’s life, nurturing a way of thinking that will equip you to deliver positive change for humanity. By bringing together clinicians and basic scientists, we create opportunities to develop cutting-edge work that makes a real difference to people’s lives.

Here at Edinburgh you will find a broad range of world-leading research centres, including Medical Research Council-funded centres, working side by side. We offer state-of-the-art facilities; co-location and close collaboration with NHS Lothian hospitals; all major imaging technologies; clinical trials support; and commercialisation training and opportunities. Our ground-breaking collaboration with Edinburgh BioQuarter, a landmark life science development on the Little France campus, is establishing Edinburgh and Scotland as one of the world’s major centres for biomedical commercialisation.

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