Upcoming lectures and seminars happening around the College. Event listing Search Tags Event date Date from Date to May 28 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? Professor Devi Sridhar will discuss the crucial role of international institutions in relation to global health, who pays for these efforts and how we can work together as a global community through these institutions. Further information Further information Apr 30 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Mending myelin: orchestrating brain repair in MS Professor Anna Williams will discuss how studying human MS brain tissue and laboratory models of remyelination can increase our understanding of how this repair process works and why it fails Further information Further information Mar 31 2018 00.00 - 23.59 A preview of Edinburgh International Science Festival 2018 The College has a strong representation at this year’s Science Festival. Here’s your quick guide to who, what, where and when. Further information Further information Mar 19 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Prions: ninja pathogens and immune system hijackers Professor Neil Mabbott will discuss research showing how prions exploit the immune system to infect the body, and how the spread of prions to the brain might be prevented. Further information Further information Mar 14 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Let's Talk About Health: Liver cancer: the impending epidemic Join us to hear about the efforts going on in Edinburgh to try and tackle this pariah cancer. We are using lessons learned from how stem cells behave and regenerate the damaged liver to better understand how these tumours grow and how we can develop new drugs to tackle this often untreatable and fatal disease. Further information Further information Feb 21 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Let's Talk About Health: the effect of being born early on children and young people Join us to hear about how brain scans have deepened our understanding of the effects of early birth on the developing brain, about innovative ways of measuring learning in infants and about how we combine these measures to understand what makes the brains of some babies do really well, and what the challenges are for others. Further information Further information Feb 19 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Fuelling inflammation: oxygen, metabolism and neutrophils Professor Sarah Walmsley will discuss research detailing how oxygen and nutrients regulate the inflammatory response. Further information Further information Jan 24 2018 17.30 - 18.30 Let's Talk About Health: A fat lot of good! Appendicitis and the benefits of specialised fat tissue Join us to “chew the fat” and hear about recent research on inflammation and the omentum, how the omentum can be used by surgeons during surgery, what we are doing to understand its function, and how we are planning to use this in the future, to help patients with peritonitis. Further information Further information Dec 06 2017 17.30 - 18.30 Let's Talk About Health: Preterm birth: Can we do better? Join us to hear about current research in Edinburgh that is focussed on preventing preterm birth, and on improving our understanding of the benefits and risks of antenatal corticosteroid treatment. Further information Further information Nov 20 2017 17.30 - 18.30 From cells to Clydesdales: a romp around the veterinary profession Professor Milne, clinical pathologist at the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, discusses her work and her vision of taking diagnostic investigation at Easter Bush to the next level. Further information Further information 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 This article was published on 2024-09-09
