News in the College Back to 'Medical and Dental Sciences' NewsRSS FeedAtom Feed 23/08/2019 Inflammatory arthritis research centre receives continued funding DescriptionA national centre researching inflammatory arthritis will receive continued funding of nearly £2 million over five years from Versus Arthritis, it has been announced.Date:23/08/2019 Research shows low-cost once a day combination pill can prevent heart disease and stroke DescriptionResearch carried out in collaboration with the University of Birmingham in the UK has shown a combination low-cost pill called a polypill containing four drugs is effective in preventing cardiovascular disease.Date:23/08/2019 20/08/2019 10 million new cases of vitamin D deficiency will be prevented by adding vitamin D to wheat flour DescriptionAdding vitamin D to wheat flour would prevent 10 million new cases of vitamin D deficiency in England and Wales over the next 90 years, say researchers at the University of Birmingham.Date:20/08/2019 19/08/2019 New tool could lead to improved care of patients living with artificial heart pump DescriptionNew research led by the University of Birmingham and funded by the British Heart Foundation could improve the lives of those living with an artificial heart pump.Date:19/08/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research 12/08/2019 Internationally renowned researcher named Chair in Cell Biology of Membrane Proteins DescriptionProfessor Dirk-Peter Herten's interdisciplinary research spans from microscopy techniques over switchable fluorescent probes to biological applications.Date:12/08/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences 07/08/2019 Birmingham collaboration awarded international MRC Newton Fund prostrate cancer grant DescriptionAn international team from the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham in the UK and the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, has been awarded £660,000 to study prostate cancer.Date:07/08/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Three Birmingham scientists awarded £4 million by Cancer Research UK DescriptionThree researchers from the University of Birmingham have been awarded more than £4 million by Cancer Research UK for their work to investigate new personalised cancer treatments.Date:07/08/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research 01/08/2019 Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust and University of Birmingham scoop top prize at healthcare innovation awards DescriptionBirmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Birmingham have been awarded the prestigious Meridian Award at the Meridian Celebration of Innovation Awards 2019.Date:01/08/2019 Hidden chemistry in flowers shown to kill cancer cells DescriptionResearchers at the University of Birmingham have shown that it's possible to produce a compound with anti-cancer properties directly from feverfew – a common flowering garden plant.Date:01/08/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research 24/07/2019 Leading population geneticist is appointed Junior Group Leader DescriptionThe Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences recently appointed Dr Marc Haber as Junior Group Leader. He joins Birmingham from the Wellcome Sanger Institute bringing with him extensive experience in population genetics.Date:24/07/2019Categories: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Displaying 1 to 10 of 631 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next