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2023 main news page
- Festive Calendar: 2023 Highlights
- Annual Recognition Awards 2023
- Celebrating graduation success
- Inaugurals showcase Usher Institute
- Jeni Harden earns double honours
- Andrew Morris presented with RSE’s Royal Medal
- New £10 million hub for behavioural research
- New Usher Director of Research - Dr Fiona Dobbie
- Winning Name for Usher Building Café Announced
- Breaking Boundaries: Recap of Successful Women in Healthcare Data Science Event
- Celebrating Postdoc Appreciation Week
- Annual Lecture and Showcase Success
- Better monitoring of breast cancer screening vital for improved uptake of services
- Global surge in cancer cases among under-50s
- Usher Building Café needs a name
- Annual Recognition Awards: Call for Nominations
- New appointment: Professor Julie Jacko, Co-Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics
- HDR UK announces five strategic research driver programmes
- Vapes work better than patches in pregnancy trial
- Covid risk study pinpoints ethnic inequalities
- Congratulations Professors!
- Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh announces move to Oxford
- Congratulations to John Last prize winners
- Professor Linda Bauld receives honorary degree
- Academic Fellow in General Practice recognised with award
- Kathrin Cresswell joins International Academy of Quality and Safety
- Long COVID project recognised for statistical excellence
- Core genes for type 1 diabetes revealed
- New NIHR Evidence Synthesis Group launched
- Three Usher Professors elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- AI tool could improve heart attack diagnosis
- World Asthma Day 2023
- Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley announced as next Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- Calls to strengthen use of Scottish care home data
- Doctors Garcia Iglesias, Kerr & Tibble awarded prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowship
- New DataLoch Respiratory Registry
- Building Healthier Futures
- Ending GP performance pay linked to care quality drop
- Usher successes at CMVM recognition awards
- EAVE II outstanding achievements recognised in Royal Society of Edinburgh medals
- Professors Harrison, Mercer and Nair elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh
- New senior leadership programme for digital transformation in health and care for Scotland
- Orkney cancer gene link revealed
- Long COVID prevalence in Scotland similar to stroke and COPD, study finds
- Diabetes and Ramadan - free online course
- New digital intervention seeks to support concussion recovery
- Lockdowns linked with drop in preterm births
- Inadequate progress digitising the NHS
- Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation programme welcomes Partner Engagement and Marketing Lead
- Asthma risk unaltered by taking extra vitamin D
- Enhancing support for emergency cardiac care clinicians in Scotland using artificial intelligence
- Volunteers needed to boost study into nation’s health
- New Masters in Planetary Health tackles crises for people and planet
- First cohort of UK Young Academy includes Usher researcher, Andrea Ford
- New Year Honours for Professor Ewen Harrison
2022 main news page
- Annual Recognition Awards
- EAVE II shortlisted in HDR UK Annual Awards
- COPS study finds no increased miscarriage risk due to COVID-19 vaccines
- Launch of community for data-driven innovation in health and social care
- Annual Lecture success
- Being Human Festival
- Vouchers help to quit smoking in pregnancy
- Life science industry leader appointed Director of Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation programme
- Molecular Epidemiology Group Meeting Comes to Edinburgh
- Congratulations Professors!
- CO-CONNECT showcases value of PPI
- Novel algorithm facilitates insights into diverse types of problems, from healthcare to finance
- Substantial and persistent reduction in asthma attacks during COVID-19 pandemic
- AI better at spotting heart failure than current tests
- New Usher building celebrates topping out milestone
- 14th International Cleft Congress
- Hebridean study to explore disease and genes link
- Usher Institute's Postgraduate Teaching Team hosts sessions at the 2022 Learning & Teaching Conference
- Birthday Honours Congratulations
- Health Data Science CPD course achieves FEDIP accreditation
- Usher Institute REF 2021 impact case studies
- Professors Bruce Guthrie and Cathie Sudlow - Fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences
- MSc Epidemiology nominations for the 2022 student-led Teaching Awards
- Most care homes in SE Scotland still use paper-based management systems
- New tech spin-out to boost drug discovery with streamlined analysis of genomic data
- Collaboration with Public Health Scotland brings awards
- Professors Gillian Mead and John Norrie - Fellows of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- A new model of pathogen transmission in developing urban landscapes
- Genetic study gives insights into severe Covid-19
- Lockdown boost for kids’ vaccination rates in Scotland
- Two studies independently find only small increased risk of blots clots in the veins of the brain following COVID-19 vaccination
- Dr Ahmar Shah - Director of Innovation
- Usher Masters Alumni network
- Proteins could be key to long and healthy life
- Covid-19 linked to complications during pregnancy
2021 main news page
- Covid-19 vaccine protection wanes after three months, study suggests
- Annual Recognition Awards
- New study shows risk of heart inflammation following COVID-19 infection and vaccination
- Principal's Medals for Professor Linda Bauld and the TestEd team
- Chancellor's Award for Professor Aziz Sheikh
- ‘Surgery selfies’ could spot infections early
- Vaccines protect against death from COVID-19 though some clinical characteristics can increase vulnerability
- Major NHS digital transformation programme ‘a success’
- New Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact
- QCovid risk assessment tool now factors in vaccination status
- Social context is key to Covid testing success
- Artificial Intelligence and Multimorbidity - new NIHR Research Collaboration
- COVID-19, not vaccination, presents biggest blood clot risks
- Covid-19 study scoops scientific world record
- Professor Linda Bauld appointed Interim Chief Social Policy Adviser
- Half of Covid hospital cases suffer complication
- Professor John Ioannidis recognised with honorary degree
- Smoke-free cars can cut child tobacco risk by a third
- COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pregnant women
- Potential new medical treatment for problematic menstrual bleeding
- Gender Sensitive ODA Research: Tips and Tools
- Delta variant impact on hospitalisation revealed
- COVID vaccine linked to low platelet count, EAVE II study suggests
- Professor Linda Bauld awarded OBE
- Covid-19 vaccine study for pregnant women launches
- First dose vaccine effectiveness update: full study now available from The Lancet
- Professor Nick Mills elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
- Three Minute Thesis final 2021
- Professors Devi Sridhar and Jim Wilson - Fellows of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- New Deputy Director, Professor Jackie Price
- New masters' programmes launched
- Scottish vaccine roll-out working, data suggests
- Linking electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort
- Master of Public Health programme - APHEA accredited
- QCovid algorithm to help identify those at high risk from COVID-19
- Martyn Pickersgill - Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences
- Data-Driven Entrepreneurship
- People with asthma in deprived areas of Wales have worse outcomes and increased risk of death
- Marie Curie Parliamentary Briefing
- Professor Amanda Amos OBE Retires
- Better post-surgery care would improve cancer survival
- New free online course: Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) in Primary Care Settings
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Respiratory Health Report: Improving Asthma Outcomes In The UK
2020 main news page
- Dr Ruth McQuillan receives Chancellor’s Award for Teaching
- Usher staff on REF panels
- INSIGHT: Reflections on UNCOVER
- Annual Recognition Awards
- Multiple measures boost Covid fight, study finds
- COVID-19 immunity research boosted by data platform
- New study highlights disruptive impact of pandemic on non-COVID NHS care in Scotland
- Covid-19 risk tool helps guide treatment
- Covid-19’s effect on rural lives to be measured
- OBE Honour for Professor Cathie Sudlow
- DataLoch heralds new data-driven era in healthcare innovation
- Understanding Covid-19 and Tobacco in six Low and Middle Income Countries: findings and reflections from a desk-based mapping study
- New global collaborative to enable secure COVID-19 data research at scale
- Salt water solution could treat COVID-19 symptoms
- Home blood pressure test eases GP demand
- Home DNA test data to boost Covid-19 fight
- Usher Institute COVID-19 roundup
- Usher researchers in the news
- OPINION: World No Tobacco Day during the time of Coronavirus Crisis
- Professor Harry Campbell Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Two-tier approach could begin lockdown end
- New study to identify highest risk factors for COVID-19
- Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19
- Covid-19 and Tobacco
- UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVid-19 Evidence Reviews)
- Data harnessed to reveal Covid-19 spread in real time
- Survey of Covid-19’s impact on our everyday lives
- Experts appointed to Covid-19 advisory group
- Systematic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) National Data view now covers more than 90% of the Scottish population
- Usher PhD student team wins Digital Health Product Forge 2020
- Academics join Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Virtual quiz success
- Usher Institute Data-Driven Innovation Hub sponsors Digital Health Product Forge 2020
- Collaboration to improve life for ageing population
- Study seeks people with Northern Isles ancestry
- Award Nomination for Scottish Cancer Registry and Intelligence Service (SCRIS)
2019 main news page
- Usher Institute Recognition Awards
- Annual Lecture Success
- Scottish Cancer Foundation Prize for Christine Campbell
- Royal College of General Practitioners Awards
- RESPIRE ASM: Making headlines in Malaysia
- Sustainable Partnerships and Universal Health Coverage in Africa
- BHF Health Data Centre - and new Head of Centre
- Edinburgh centre to boost respiratory research
- City Region Deal funding secured
- Scotland’s genetic landscape echoes Dark Age
- Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Principal's Medal Winners 2019
- Congratulations Professors!
- Data-Driven Innovation - update
- Data tool helps decipher mouse’s calls
- New Usher Institute logo
- New Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences
- Usher Institute Forum success
- Marilyn Kendall retires
- IHDP Annual Lecture a resounding success
- MPH student successes - and farewell to Stuart Mallen
- Usher research changes government legislation
- Honours for Professor Amanda Amos
- Online MPH Programme - Curriculum Accreditation
- Teaching Award nominations
- Bid to improve health and tackle inequality
- Science Festival 2019
- Three minute thesis success
- Edinburgh Marathon Relay
- Education Grants 2019
- MSc Global eHealth graduate wins entrepreneurial award
- £2 million funding for the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research
- Healthy and sustainable futures exhibition
- Deputy Director of TIBA appointed to GCRF Strategic Advisory Group
- New book from Emeritus Professor Raj Bhopal
- Anna Wierzoch retires
- Why the public should be data research partners
- Drug resistance effort aided by sewage survey
- Professors Liz Grant and Linda Bauld - Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Professor Steff Lewis and Dr Martyn Pickersgill appointed Directors of Research
- Asthma registry to improve participation in research studies
- Sea salt could help beat a cold, study suggests
- £3 million boost from UK Government to find data solutions to healthcare challenges
- Experts team up to tackle tropical diseases
- Dr Allison Worth retires
- Ahmar Shah invited to represent University of Edinburgh in Global Young Scientists Summit
- Hilary Pinnock elected to key role at European Respiratory Society
- Usher researchers lead on £2.5 million grant to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing
- DNA may predict potential lifespan, study finds
2018 main news page
- Highly Cited Researchers
- World Pneumonia Day 2018
- Usher research group helps get palliative care firmly on the Primary Health Care agenda internationally
- How data science is shaping the modern NHS
- RESPIRE PhD student in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine cover story
- Bowel cancer waiting times figures revealed
- Building RESPIRE relationships in Malaysia
- Exploring science
- ROADMAP project celebrates success
- Novel animation about epilepsy
- Statins show little promise for other conditions
- Data initiative to tackle digital skills gap
- New appointments: Professors Bruce Guthrie and Stewart Mercer
- Global Health Symposium and Annual Lecture 2018
- Depression may raise risk of heart attack and stroke
- Fringe Festival Highlights
- New appointment: Professor Linda Bauld
- Sarah Chan - member of Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland
- Launch of Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
- Professor Scott Murray retires
- Professor Raj Bhopal retires
- Kinship carers comic created to help relieve stress
- Dental list of bad practice has patient care at heart
- Experts to evaluate NHS tech scheme
- Inspiring visit by former Minister, Norman Lamb MP
- Grant to speed up bowel cancer diagnosis
- Patient and Public Involvement Platform selected by NIHR
- Scots born abroad have lower death rates
- Landmark stroke study could hold key to new therapies
- Emotional support is key for stroke patients
- Video created by Primary Palliative Care Research Group
- International experts attend global health conference
- Professor Cathie Sudlow - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Usher Postgraduate Administrator nominated for the Best Support Staff Award
- Female hormones may be linked to asthma
- Schools alone cannot help to prevent childhood obesity, study finds
- Funding set to transform health through data science
- Dr Martyn Pickersgill to edit prestigious journal
- Pepper the robot arrives at BioQuarter to aid dementia research
- Research book prize awarded
- Wellcome Trust Reader delivers Paul Bach-Y-Rita Memorial Lecture
- New Year's Honours recognition
2017 news archive
- BMA Medfash Award for HIV Scotland - nominated by Ingrid Young
- Chancellor's Award to Professor Devi Sridhar
- Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
- Type 2 diabetes linked to shorter lifespan
- Master of Public Health Class of 2016/17 success
- Social media studies need tighter controls
- Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa - launch
- Learning and staying in shape key to longer lifespan, study finds
- Smoking bans’ positive impact on child health backed by study
- WHO Collaborating Centre
- Director, Professor Sheikh, wins Principal's Medal
- Lung diseases targeted by £7m global research initiative
- Digital Academy set to transform NHS care
- Professor Aziz Sheikh now director of Usher Institute
- "Key Advances in Clinical Informatics" recently published
- New HIV prevention drug available in Scotland
- Blue plaque honours GP’s legacy
- Vaccines needed for infant chest infections
- Congratulations to Professor Liz Grant
- Race for life start in celebration of £1.5million grant
- Speed limit study to probe if twenty is plenty
- Annual Lecture and Showcase success
- Quit-smoking drug safe for lung disease patients
- Professor Wendy Bickmore elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
- Dr Martyn Pickersgill wins Rising Star award from British Academy
- New website for Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research
- New Director for Usher Institute
- Professor Devi Sridhar - profiled in the BMJ
- Professor Raj Bhopal - profiled in the BMJ
- Asthma study finds support saves lives
- Gene study reveals Irish Travellers' ancestry
- Usher researchers lead on €29 million grant to assess risk posed by deadly lung infections
- ADRC-Scotland release nutshell videos
- Heartburn pills may be linked to asthma
- Olympian backs smart lifestyle choices
- WHO papers on Safer Primary Care published
2016 news archive
- Usher researcher wins FameLab competition heat
- Cooking heat may hold clues to heart disease
- Sexual violence in war has lasting effect
- New book: Concepts of Epidemiology. Third Edition
- Over 70s missing out on palliative and end of life care
- Technology tackles healthcare corruption
- COPD care costs to exceed £2.5bn
- Bill for asthma care exceeds £1bn
- Gene curbs coffee urge, study finds
- Ethnic minorities in Scotland live longer than White Scots
- New book: Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit
- Health monitors at home help curb blood pressure and diabetes
- Diabetes patients living longer
- Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP visits Usher Institute
- Honorary degree for Dr Judith Mackay
- Global experts adopt new guidelines for health data analysis
- Dr Nazmy Villarroel Williams wins prize at the European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health
- Holidays in the sun hold key to boosting vitamin D, study finds
- Athena SWAN Silver Award
- Big data at BioQuarter
- Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit
- Core Curriculum for Sociology in Undergraduate Medical Education
- Launch of MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral Training PhDs
- Dr Martyn Pickersgill - Editorial Board and Medal
- Making strides in Mongolia
- Raj Bhopal - Honorary Life Member of Society for Social Medicine
- Igor Rudan - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Comment on HFEA’s decision to grant a licence for gene editing in human embryos
- Fredrik Norström, Umeå University, visits Usher Institute
- Ethnic variations in asthma hospital admissions
- Athena SWAN newsletter
- Dr Martyn Pickersgill in the Wellcome spotlight
- Usher Institute formally launched