By LifETIME CDT Student: Abigail Wright (She/Her) (University of Birmingham) In Feb 2023, I worked within the research labs at the University of Sydney, Australia for 2 months. I was based within the Charles Perkins Centre – a multimillion pound hub facilitating ground-breaking medical research. These labs are partly funded by the Australian government, to accelerate …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Lola Ajayi (University of Glasgow) Our cells feel everything; cells respond to hormones, drugs, temperature, and a bunch of other stimuli. When it comes to cancer, cells are very sensitive to how soft or stiff the environment is around them. Depending on how stiff or soft and organised or disorganised proteins in …
By LifETIME CDT Student: William Mills (University of Glasgow) In 1930 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian Physicist, for his discovery of inelastic scattering of light in organic liquids. Scattering here just means that the direction of the light was changed by hitting a molecule. The reason this …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Patrick C Hurley (CÚRAM, University of Galway) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) – you may have heard of the disease, you may know someone afflicted by it, but what exactly is it and what makes it such a serious diagnosis? MS is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the Central Nervous System CNS and is …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Lauren Hope (University of Glasgow) The vast majority – around 90% – of potential new therapies fail in clinical trials (1,2). One important reason for this is that animals, which legally must be used in preclinical testing, harbour numerous differences compared to humans that limit the translation of these test results from …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Matthias Lim (University of Birmingham) Repetitive head injury has been shown to result in cognitive impairment of many athletes, including early onset dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Sporting organisations, therefore, have a critically important ethical duty to actively monitor the health and recovery of their athletes, monitor, and to rapidly diagnose …