Targeted therapies for heart failure research receives £850,000 boost DescriptionDr Katja Gehmlich has been jointly awarded a three-year research grant from the Medical Research Council to understand how cardiac mechano-sensing works to help develop therapies for heart failure.Date:20/11/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Death and the 'Spanish Lady': Suicide in Pandemic Times DescriptionIn 1918-19, the 'Spanish Flu', (or Spanish Lady'), is estimated to have killed over 50M people. What is less well-known is that many others succumbed to its effects on mental wellbeing and died by suicide as a result.Date:16/11/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research RD Lawrence Fellowship awarded to Birmingham Fellow DescriptionDr Ildem Akerman is the recipient of the highly respected RD Lawrence Fellowship Award from Diabetes UK for her research in identifying factors important to generate beta cells from stems cells in a laboratory.Date:12/11/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Routine testing for COVID-19 can make surgery safer DescriptionRoutine testing patients for COVID-19 before major surgery could reduce the risk of respiratory complications and save lives, a new study reveals.Date:12/11/2020Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Many English and Welsh charities had low levels of financial reserves on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, says new report DescriptionMany charities have low levels of reserves says a new report which highlights how for just over one-fifth of charities, reserves were equivalent to less than one month of expenditure.Date:10/11/2020Categories: Research, Social Sciences HydroFLEX train heralds major step towards railway decarbonisation DescriptionThe rapid development of hydrogen will mean that the performance of the future hydrogen fuelled rail vehicles will mean ambition for such extensive electrification could in fact be reducedDate:05/11/2020Categories: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research £800,000 Medical Research Council grant awarded to Birmingham Fellow and Birmingham Professor DescriptionDr Sarah Dimeloe and Professor Gareth Lavery have been awarded a New Investigator Research Grant from the Medical Research Council for their research interrogating T cell metabolism.Date:05/11/2020Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research The Daily Mail: Are you obese? A surprising number of us are – here are some clever ways to tackle it DescriptionDr Abd Tahrani,Senior Lecturer in Obesity Medicine at University of Birmingham, is quoted in The Daily Mail regarding obesity and some ways to tackle it.Date:04/11/2020Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Work completes on new railway research centre at the University of Birmingham DescriptionA new purpose-built centre designed to deliver specialist research in digital railway engineering has been opened at the University of Birmingham.Date:03/11/2020Categories: Engineering and Physical Sciences Birmingham Professor to receive prestigious award for exceptional scientific advances in endocrinology DescriptionProfessor Davide Calebiro, Chair of Molecular Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham's Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, has been named as the recipient of a prestigious endocrinology award.Date:26/10/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Displaying 1 to 10 of 1000 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next