MRS seeks new Trustees to join its board June 13, 2023 Ongoing Medical Research Scotland (MRS) is looking for a number of new Trustees to join its Board. Our Trustees come from a variety of backgrounds and have different expertise. The overall skills requirements of our Trustee Board include the following: A strong communications, fundraising and marketing background, including knowledge of digital… Continue reading...
AMRC Open Research is Available to MRS Awardees October 7, 2021 Ongoing MRS encourages all its awardees to publish their work in open access journals or platforms. You can now make use of the AMRC Open Research publishing platform as a means to do so. AMRC Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of work funded… Continue reading...
RSC-BMCS Postgraduate Symposium XVII Poster Success January 19, 2024 Daniel Webb attended the Royal Society of Chemistry – Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (RSC-BMCS) Postgraduate Symposium XVII, held at the University of Oxford in January 2024, where he presented a short talk and poster of his PhD research titled: ‘Activin Receptor-like Kinase 2 Degradation as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy… Continue reading...
Leukaemia UK Scholarship Winner November 7, 2023 Désirée Zerbst was awarded the Leukaemia UK scholarship to attend the Annual John Goldman Conference on Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) in France in 2023. The conference was the perfect opportunity for her to learn about current CML research and gain more insight into the clinical aspect of CML treatment. She… Continue reading...
Covid-19 research selected as a 2022 Anaesthesia Top 10 Article September 18, 2023 We are delighted that Professor Ben Shelley’s MRS-funded research into Covid-19 (‘Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Ventilated Patients with COVID-19 (COVID-RV)’, University of Glasgow), published in Anaesthesia, has been selected as one of the journal’s Top 10 Articles from 2022. Ben was awarded a Covid-19 Research Grant in 2020. Congratulations to… Continue reading...
Medical Research Scotland contributes to the discovery of a protein that blocks avian (bird) flu infecting humans July 27, 2023 Dr Simon Swingler, a Medical Research Scotland-funded Daphne Jackson Fellow, working at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, was part of a team of researchers who have shed light on how avian (bird) flu strains infect humans by evading a key human defence mechanism, known as BTN3A3…. Continue reading...
Medical Research Charities and the UK’s Global Health Strategy June 13, 2023 MRS was delighted to hear the Science Minister George Freeman MP acknowledge medical research charities as a unique strength of the UK’s eco-system” in January 2023 in a speech at UK Onwards’ event “Science Superpower: the UK’s Global Science Strategy beyond Horizon Europe”. MRS believes we play a vital role… Continue reading...
2022 Christina Paulus prize June 13, 2023 Congratulations to Jason Corbett, who was awarded the University of St Andrews’ School of Biology Christina Paulus prize prize. He received his prize for delivering the best cell or molecular biology talk at the 2022 School of Biology’s annual internal postgraduate conference. Jason had to present his talk in an… Continue reading...
1st Year Student Poster Prize June 13, 2023 Tom Carvell was awarded Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering first year student’s poster prize for the poster he presented at the annual School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Post-graduate Research Day. Very well done Tom! Continue reading...
Anatomical Society’s Best Image Prize June 13, 2023 The Anatomical Society awarded the Best Image Prize to PhD student Patricia Medesan for her image entitled “?Science in Bloom’. The Best Image Prize is awarded twice a year and the images submitted by members are judged by the Website, Media and Communications Committee. The winning entry is a pseudo-colorized… Continue reading...
