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Usher successes at CMVM Staff Recognition Awards 2026

12 May, 2026

Winners for this year's College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Staff Recognition Awards…

CMVM Staff Awards 2026

Professors Kenneth Baillie and Jim Flett Wilson deliver inaugural lectures

29 April, 2026

The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine hosted a special evening on Friday 24 April 2026 as…

Professors David Argyle, Jim Flett Wilson and Kenneth Baillie

How prepared are the UK and US for the next pandemic?

27 April, 2026

A new analysis by Usher Institute’s Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, and Edinburgh…

People wearing face masks

Usher Building exhibition space opens

23 April, 2026

Marie Larsson’s “The Pill. Angry Chuckles. A poetry exhibition on contraceptive experiences” opens…

Usher Building Exhibition Space

Psychological distress across adulthood linked to poorer later-life cognitive health and dementia, new UK study suggests

22 April, 2026

A UK study suggests that psychological distress experienced across adulthood may be linked to…

Image of a clock and a brain

Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

07 April, 2026

Sue Fletcher-Watson, Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Usher Institute, has been elected…

Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson

Hospital delirium linked to later dementia risk

27 March, 2026

Older adults who develop delirium during a hospital admission face a substantially higher risk of…

Photograph of elderly man looking distressed sitting on a hospital bed

SCONe research resource named among top 10 papers of 2025 by BMJ Health & Care Informatics

23 March, 2026

A paper describing a unique Scottish research resource has been selected as one of the top 10…

Up close photograph of an eye

Olivia Swann among UK Young Academy’s new members

10 March, 2026

Olivia Swann, Wellcome Early Career Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infection Disease…

Dr Olivia Swann, Wellcome Early Career Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infection Disease

Cardiac arrest survival in Scotland receives a boost

27 February, 2026

An Usher Institute-led partnership designed to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival…

Susan Gardner from Save a Life for Scotland watches on as First Minister of Scotland John Swinney performs CPR on a manikin.