News 2024

An archive of Institute News from 2024

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Generation Scotland Launches Loneliness in the Digital World Study

01 May, 20242024

The study, designed in collaboration with young people, will examine how interactions online and in…

New insights on inherited retinal disorders hold potential for drug treatment

01 May, 20242024

Using mouse models and advanced imaging techniques, Megaw et al reveal the role of RPGR in the…

Early Career Prize for Scott Waddell

01 May, 20242024

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Scott Waddell has won a Scottish Universities Life Sciences…

Welcome to our 2024 Cross-disciplinary fellows

30 April, 20242024

Maria Delgado Ortet, Rodrigo García-Tejera, Svitlana Braichenko and Luciana Luque join the…

New paper from Dr Kathy Evans’ research group describes a pilot drug screen for Alzheimer’s disease using human neural progenitor cells

29 April, 20242024

The recent publication in the journal Brain Communications uses a cell morphology-based imaging…

Rare disease genetics reveals microtubule mechanism for ciliopathies

25 April, 20242024

Using patient cells, organoid and mouse models, Dodd et al reveal how cilia are key to how…

Adjuvant pembrolizumab improves survival in high-risk clear cell renal cell cancer

19 April, 20242024

Recent results from the KEYNOTE-564 trial, an international study with its UK component led from…

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award for University of Edinburgh and Nuvectis

10 April, 20242024

University of Edinburgh and Nuvectis Pharma win Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award: April 2024

Generation Scotland halfway to recruiting 20k new volunteers

03 April, 20242024

Generation Scotland, Scotland’s largest family health study, hit an incredible 10,000 new volunteer…

Research groups join forces to study the genetics of Parkinson’s disease

29 March, 20242024

The Grzegorz Kudla Research Group at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh will join…