News 2021

A selection of news from the Usher Institute in 2021.

News listing

Publication date

Launch of community for data-driven innovation in health and social care

16 November, 2022

The Usher Innovation Community will put data at the centre of responses to health and social care…

Annual Lecture success

15 November, 2022

We were delighted to host Dr Fiona Godlee for this year's Usher Institute Annual Lecture.

Being Human Festival

08 November, 2022

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society is hosting a series of events as part of the UK Being…

Vouchers help to quit smoking in pregnancy

20 October, 2022

High street voucher scheme helps double the number of women who stop smoking during pregnancy in a…

Life science industry leader appointed Director of Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation programme

14 October, 2022

Dr Marcus Harrison, formerly Chief Operating Officer at the Medicines Discovery Catapult, will lead…

Molecular Epidemiology Group Meeting Comes to Edinburgh

16 September, 2022

Monday 28 November 2022 | ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED 30 SEPTEMBER

Annual Recognition Awards

07 September, 2022

The Usher Institute is delighted to recognise the contribution of staff and students in our Annual…

Congratulations Professors!

10 August, 2022

Congratulations to new Professors Miguel Bernabeu, Jonine Figueroa and Sarah Stock

CO-CONNECT showcases value of PPI

21 July, 2022

CO-CONNECT, a project working with Usher Institute researchers, recently published two videos…

Novel algorithm facilitates insights into diverse types of problems, from healthcare to finance

21 July, 2022

A new feature-selection algorithm can be applied to any dataset, yielding faster data analysis.