News 2022

We were delighted to host Dr Fiona Godlee for this year's Usher Institute Annual Lecture.

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society is hosting a series of events as part of the UK Being Human Festival in November.

High street voucher scheme helps double the number of women who stop smoking during pregnancy in a UK-wide study.

Dr Marcus Harrison, formerly Chief Operating Officer at the Medicines Discovery Catapult, will lead the Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation (HSCDDI) programme at the University of Edinburgh as it seeks to drive advances in health and social care through the application of data science.

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Congratulations to new Professors Miguel Bernabeu, Jonine Figueroa and Sarah Stock

CO-CONNECT, a project working with Usher Institute researchers, recently published two videos highlighting the importance and value of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in health data research.

A new feature-selection algorithm can be applied to any dataset, yielding faster data analysis.

A study of a national primary care database of nearly 10 million patients across England has found that rates of asthma attacks were up to 63% lower in 2020-21 than the previous 4 years.

Artificial intelligence can help diagnose acute heart failure with more accuracy than current blood tests alone, research suggests.

Construction of the new Usher building at Edinburgh BioQuarter has reached its highest point.

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People with at least two grandparents from the Hebrides in Scotland are being asked to take part in a major genetic study.

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE, Professor Harry Campbell MBE and Dr Ruth McQuillan MBE among this year's Birthday Honours list.

Our application for accreditation, from the Federation for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care (FEDIP), was approved. Students will now have the FEDIP logo and new text added onto their certificate of completion.

A summary of our key impact case studies from the Usher Insitute as submitted to REF 2021

Professors Cathie Sudlow and Bruce Guthrie becomes Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

In 2021, the MSc Epidemiology programme was successfully launched. It has been an outstanding achievement for the meaningful connections the team have already made with their students, and this has been further evidenced by the nomination they received in the 2022 student-led Teaching Awards, in the “Outstanding Innovation in Digital Teaching” category.

Researchers call for digital route map to prevent sector being left behind

Omecu Ltd was developed following an MRC Confidence in Concept project, part-funded by the Usher Institute Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Hub.

The EAVE II team, led by Professor Aziz Sheikh, Usher Institute Director, is a close collaboration with Public Health Scotland - publishing important contributions to help our understanding of COVID-19.

Professors Gillian Mead and John Norrie from the Usher Institute become Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

A new study sheds light on how structures within developing cities can be exploited by new diseases

The world’s largest study of the genetics of critical Covid-19, involving more than 57,000 people, has revealed fresh details about some of the biological mechanisms behind the severe form of the disease.

Childhood vaccination rates significantly increased in Scotland during the first lockdown compared with the year before the pandemic, according to new research.

Two large studies carried out independently in the UK both found a slight increase in risk of intracranial thromboses in some populations after the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr Ahmar Shah succeeds Dr Kathrin Cresswell as the Director of Innovation for the Usher Institute.

New network for alumni of the Usher Institute launched

Two blood proteins have been shown by scientists to influence how long and healthy a life we live, research suggests.

Women who have Covid-19 towards the end of their pregnancy are vulnerable to birth-related complications. They are more likely to have complications than those who get Covid-19 in the earlier stages of pregnancy or who haven’t had Covid-19 at all.