News 2019

Congratulations to Professors Harry Campbell, Harish Nair and Igor Rudan - winners of the University of Edinburgh Principal's Medal for Exceptional Service

Congratulations to new Professors Evi Theodoratou and Ewen Harrison

What is the City Region Deal, the Data-Driven Innovation Programme and what's next for the Usher Institute?

Technology that can help interpret inaudible calls from laboratory mice has been developed in a bid to improve research.

We are delighted to launch a new look and feel for the Usher Institute.

Congratulations to Professor John Norrie, Chair of MRC/NIHR EME Board, and Professor Linda Bauld, who takes over as co-Head of CPHS.

Thanks to all who contributed to the latest Usher Institute Forum.

A celebration of Dr Marilyn Kendall’s 20 year career in the Primary Palliative Care Group here at the Usher Institute marked her retirement.

There was a good turnout for the IHDP (Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme ) 2019 Annual Lecture by Professor John Frank.

Congratulations to students on the Master of Public Health on campus programme, and farewell to Stuart Mallen.

Members of the Primary Palliative Care Research Group have received a Marie Curie award.

Professor Amanda Amos receives OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

The online Master of Public Health has successfully achieved ‘Curriculum Validation’, the first phase of accreditation with APHEA.

Congratulations to all Usher staff nominated in the 2019 EUSA teaching awards.

A major research collaboration is to investigate key factors that limit people’s chances to live longer, healthier lives.

Members of the Usher Institute have been busy delivering events as part of this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival.

PhD student Tim Wilkinson wins the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine heat of this year's three minute thesis competition.

PhD student Gabrielle King has brought together many people from across the Usher Institute ready to race for MND Scotland.

The Usher Institute has awarded its first education development grants to support two very interesting projects.

Amal Bholah, graduate of online distance learning programme, MSc Global eHealth, wins award.

The Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research has been re-funded for a further five years, with an additional £2 million committed by Asthma UK.

The Global Health Governance Programme, led by Professor Devi Sridhar, is hosting a week long exhibition the first week in April 2019 entitled “Healthy and Sustainable Futures”.

The Usher Institute would like to congratulate Francisca Mutapi, Deputy Director of TIBA, on her recent appointment.

Building on his body of work investigating the impact of ethnicity on health, Professor Raj Bhopal publishes a new book.

Anna Wierzoch began her well earned retirement this month, after 15 years working with Professor Aziz Sheikh.

Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley offers insight into the benefits of involving the public in heath data research in an article in Healthandcare.scot.

Efforts to monitor the spread of antibiotic resistance worldwide could be transformed with a map created using data from analysis of sewage samples.

We are delighted that Professors Linda Bauld and Liz Grant have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The Usher Board is delighted to have appointed Professor Steff Lewis and Dr Martyn Pickersgill as co-Directors of Research.

REACH is a database which securely stores information about people in the UK affected by asthma and who want to take part in research studies.

A simple sea salt water solution could help to reduce the symptoms of a cold, research suggests.

The University of Edinburgh has led on one of 10 successful project bids sharing £3 million funding from the UK Government as part of the Digital Innovation Hub Programme, Health Data Research UK has announced today.

Millions of people are set to benefit from projects involving Edinburgh researchers that aim to improve health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This month saw the retirement of Dr Allison Worth, lead of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team at the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research and Patient and Public Involvement Adviser for the University of Edinburgh, based at the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility.

The 'Global Young Scientists Summit' is a gathering of select under 35 young scientists and researchers invited from all over the world, along with eminent international science and technology leaders in Singapore.

Congratulations to Professor Hilary Pinnock, who has been elected as Head of Assembly 1 - General Pneumology at the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

Professor Aziz Sheikh is leading a major new initiative to develop and evaluate an improvement to existing hospital electronic prescribing systems to tackle antibiotic over-prescribing in the UK.

Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA.

Many staff and students from across the Usher Institute celebrated successes of 2018 at our latest Forum event.