Upstairs, Downstairs, and the Spaces In-Between DescriptionDr Kinga Goodwin, Policy Impact Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages, discusses the intersections of various cultural identities, and how this impacts on migrant artists.Date:19/02/2021Categories: Arts and Law, International, Research 'Weak' and 'strong' cells bonding boosts body's diabetes fight DescriptionScientists have broadened our understanding of how 'weak' cells bond with their more mature cellular counterparts to boost the body's production of insulin – improving our knowledge of the processes leading to diabetes.Date:01/02/2021Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Better post-surgical care would boost cancer survival chances DescriptionPatients' chances of survival after cancer surgery is strongly linked with the standard of post-operation hospital care, a major international study suggests.Date:25/01/2021Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Grant success for Post-Socialist Britain project DescriptionProfessor Sara Jones, Dr Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham) and Dr Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University) have received a grant of £935k from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Date:18/01/2021Categories: Arts and Law, International, Research Obesity, age and BAME ethnicity associated with higher COVID-19 antibody levels DescriptionResearchers studying a group of UK healthcare workers discovered that non-white individuals recovering from COVID-19 displayed higher antibody levels than white individuals.Date:23/11/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research 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 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 Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV-2 found at six months in non-hospitalised individuals DescriptionCellular (T cell) immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is likely to be present within most adults six months after primary infection, a new pre-print from the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC) suggests.Date:02/11/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research 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 Optical imaging techniques could offer non-invasive method to measure swelling within the brain, new study finds DescriptionImaging techniques ordinarily used by eye doctors to monitor the optic nerve could offer a non-invasive method of measuring and managing potentially dangerous swelling in the skull, a new UK study has found.Date:24/10/2020Categories: International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Displaying 1 to 10 of 123 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next