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British Federation of Women Graduates Prize awarded to CCBS student

29 January, 2019

Jan 2019: Congratulations to Bérengère Digard, who has been awarded the Barbara Northend Prize.

Trial using donated eye tissue offers stem cell surgery hope

29 January, 2019

Jan 2019: Researchers have carried out a clinical trial using stem cell-derived tissue to repair…

Early life trauma affects two-thirds of Scots children

15 January, 2019

Jan 2019: CCBS research suggests that most Scottish children experience a traumatic event before…

Celebrating the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Western General Hospital

19 December, 2018

Dec 2018: An afternoon symposium was held to celebrate the Department of Clinical Neurosciences…

Prestigious parliamentary Fellowship for CCBS student

17 December, 2018

Dec 2018: Congratulations to Maggi Laurie, who has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship in the…

STRADL Depression Research Day

13 December, 2018

Dec 2018: A report on the Wellcome Trust ‘Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally’ (…

Clinical trial findings suggest common antidepressant does not aid stroke recovery

04 December, 2018

Dec 2018: The results of the FOCUS clinical trial have shown that stroke patients prescribed a…

Winners of the Arthur Fonville Award 2018

26 November, 2018

Nov 2018: Many congratulations to the two winners of this year's Arthur Fonville Award.

PhD recruitment round for 2019 now open

13 November, 2018

Nov 2018: We are open for applications for PhDs starting in September 2019.

Senior Lectureship for Dr Suvankar Pal

23 October, 2018

Oct 2018: Congratulations to Dr Suvankar Pal, who has been awarded a Senior Lectureship position in…

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…