Dr Maki-Petaja won a poster prize (125 Euros) at the Artery Conference in Guimaraes, Portugal in October 2018. The poster depicted results from the HYPAZ study, which was a collaborative effort between EMIT and Oncology, led by Dr Joseph Cheriyan (co-PI) for experimental techniques to measure cardiovascular pharmacodynamics and Prof Duncan Jodrell, as Chief Investigator for […]
Kat Connolly awarded a Young Investigator prize
Kat Connolly, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine, has been awarded a Young Investigator prize at the British and Irish Hypertension Society annual conference in September 2018. Kat will present her work on the relationship between high dietary salt and aortic stiffness at High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia.
Dr Peiran (Brian) Yang receives the British Pharmacological Society 2017 Vogt Prize
Dr Peiran (Brian) Yang (supervised by Dr Anthony Davenport and Dr Janet Maguire) receiving the British Pharmacological Society 2017 Vogt Prize for postgraduate studies from the President, Professor David Webb at Pharmacology 2017, the main international meeting of the Society. The prize is awarded to candidates competing their MD or PhD within the past 18 […]
Lecture by Dr Dike Ojji – African collaborator on AIM HY Study (Hypertension)
Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapeutics (EMIT) presents a seminar by: Dr Dike Ojji MBBS PhD FWACP FACP Head of Cardiology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Nigeria; collaborator on AIM HY study Hypertension, Left Ventricular Remodelling and Heart Failure in Black Africans December 5 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Lecture […]
AIM HY INFORM Clinical Trial now recruiting participants
Are you looking for the best treatment to lower your blood pressure? If you are aged 18 to 65 years you could take part in a project to find how treatment for high blood pressure should be “personalised”. Selection of medication from a wide choice of drugs is often by “trial and error”. Blood pressure […]
University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellors awards – Winners of ‘Public Engagement in Research Award’ 2017 – Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch, Jane Kennet and Katerina Anselmiova (Departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry)
Since the commencement of their research programme to develop drugs to treat Type 1 diabetes, Dr Waldron-Lynch, Ms. Kennet and Ms. Anselmiova (The CamT1D Team) have developed their Research ECOsystem, a public engagement programme to engage participants, patients, families, funders, colleagues, institutions, companies and the community, with the aim of ensuring that their research remains relevant […]
Prizes awarded
Amanda Kennedy and Dr Viknesh Selvarajah were awarded prizes at the American Heart Association and British Hypertension Society: Amanda Kennedy was awarded a poster prize at the American Heart Association Hypertension Meeting in Orlando in September 16 plus the St Catharine’s College 2016 prize for research excellence. Dr Viknesh Selvarajah won the Young Investigator Prize […]
Innovative Vitamin D Trial Funded by NIHR HTA
Investigators from the University of Cambridge and the UK Renal Registry have been awarded funding of £1.4 million for an ambitious and innovative trial of vitamin D in dialysis patients. Led by Dr Thomas Hiemstra from the University of Cambridge, SIMPLIFIED will enroll 4,200 dialysis patients over three years, randomised to cholecalciferol or standard care. […]
MRC, GSK and five leading UK universities collaborate to crack difficult disease areas
Cambridge has been part of a successful £16 million bid to work with the MRC, GSK and four other UK universities in a unique open innovation research initiative aiming to improve scientists’ understanding of inflammatory diseases that present a serious burden to patients. The Experimental Medicine Initiative to Explore New Therapies (EMINENT) network will be […]
Astrazeneca and Cambridge announce new joint PhD and clinical research scholarship
AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarship sand eight clinical lectureships over the next five years spanning translational science, basic and clinical research. Two of the schemes are co-funded by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between Cambridge University Hospitals and […]
