News Jul-Dec 2018

CCBS news from July to December 2018.

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Sarah McGlasson wins Scopus Early Career Researcher Award

09 October, 2018

Oct 2018: Congratulations to Sarah McGlasson, a postdoctoral researcher in David Hunt's lab,…

CCBS student wins UK Three Minute Thesis competition

19 September, 2018

Sep 2018: Huge congratulations to Owen Gwydion James on winning the UK Three Minute Thesis…

'Living with MS' patient:scientist exchange event

18 September, 2018

Sep 2018: A group of Edinburgh Neuroscience and SPRINT-MND/MS PhD students travelled to Glasgow to…

Families affected by learning difficulties help shape research agenda

12 September, 2018

Sep 2018: Young people with learning difficulties and their families have helped to identify key…

Mild Stroke Study 3 recruits first participant

28 August, 2018

Aug 2018: The Mild Stroke Study 3 recruited its first participant on 22nd August. The study aims to…

Brain scan checklist set to boost care for stroke survivors

14 August, 2018

Aug 2018: New research suggests that people who suffer a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain…

Map of a billion synapses reveals clues about how we think

01 August, 2018

Aug 2018: A new map of more than a billion synapses in the brain helps to shed light on how…

Brain study paves way for therapy for common cause of dementia

09 July, 2018

Jul 2018: A team involving CCBS researchers has published findings suggesting that reversing damage…

Chronic wasting disease prions can convert human prions into disease-associated form

09 July, 2018

Jul 2018: A team of CCBS researchers led by Marcelo Barria have published findings that prions that…

LACI-2 trial for stroke that can cause dementia

05 June, 2018

May 2018: Professor Joanna Wardlaw is leading a British Heart Foundation (BHF)-funded clinical…