News 2019

A selection of news from the Usher Institute in 2019.

News listing

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International experts attend global health conference

27 February, 2018

A highly successful global health symposium was held at the Royal College of Physicians of…

Video created by Primary Palliative Care Research Group

18 February, 2018

Professor Scott Murray, of the Usher Institute, will run a session entitled 'From research to…

Female hormones may be linked to asthma

18 February, 2018

Fluctuations in female sex hormones could play a role in the development of allergies and asthma, a…

Schools alone cannot help to prevent childhood obesity, study finds

08 February, 2018

School-based healthy lifestyle interventions alone are not effective in the fight against childhood…

Dr Martyn Pickersgill to edit prestigious journal

07 February, 2018

Dr Martyn Pickersgill (Wellcome Trust Reader in Social Studies of Biomedicine) has been invited to…

Funding set to transform health through data science

06 February, 2018

Health Data Research UK have announced £54 million of funding to transform health through data…

Research book prize awarded

06 February, 2018

Professor Devi Sridar has been awarded The Virginia Hodgkinson Research Book Prize 2017 along with…

Wellcome Trust Reader delivers Paul Bach-Y-Rita Memorial Lecture

05 February, 2018

Dr Martyn Pickersgill - 'Neuroscience and the Governance of Family Life'

Pepper the robot arrives at BioQuarter to aid dementia research

05 February, 2018

The possibility of using robots to help those with dementia.

New Year's Honours recognition

03 February, 2018

Professor Andrew Morris has been made a CBE in recognition of his services to science in Scotland.