Only approximately 15% of people diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour survive more than 5 years (www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/brain-tumours). To improve this low figure, biomedical ultrasound imaging is beginning to be used …more

PhD students are invited to attend a student led conference in Translational Medicine on the 20th-21st of June hosted by the Physical Sciences for Health CDT at the University of Birmingham. …more

Courtesy of Shaun Stone, this image demonstrates the MR-based neuroimaging technique of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which allows estimation of microstructural integrity, location, orientation and anisotropy of the brain’s white …more

A guest blog for the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) by Prof Adam Waldman describes how the first MR PET system in Scotland is being put to use at Edinburgh Imaging. …more

Congratulations to Professor Joanna Wardlaw, who has been honoured with the Presidential Award at the 2017 European Stroke Conference. Professor Wardlaw, who was instrumental in establishing SINAPSE, is Professor of …more

Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia affect over 45 million people worldwide and cost over £26 billion per year in the UK alone.  Currently, there are no disease modifying treatments, and the …more

The University of Dundee has a number of exciting interdisciplinary PhD studentships available, including the following imaging-related research projects: Development of innovative methods for the provision of routinely collected medical …more

In collaboration with Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems, this project will develop methods, algorithms and theory that realize decision support systems via deep representation learning mechanisms based on both imaging and …more

Many congratulations to Edinburgh Imaging’s CT team and the Scot-Heart study team, winners of Imaging Team of the Year at The BMJ Awards 2017! The award was made in connection …more

Courtesy of Prof Keith Muir, this image is the first scan from the first 7T clinical MRI scanner in Scotland: the new 7T Siemens Terra system at the recently opened …more

The laboratory of Edwin M. Robertson is dedicated to understanding the offline brain. Much of the work will focus upon understanding how newly formed memories for skills, actions and events …more

Former SINAPSE student Dr David Dickie, now a Clinical Research Specialist at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, has been awarded a three-year Stroke Association postdoctoral fellowship grant worth over £170K …more

The University of Edinburgh has been announced as one of six centres selected to form the UK Dementias Research Institute (UK DRI), a £250M initiative dedicated to addressing the challenge …more

A recent article in The Scotsman reports on a mobile EEG study at the University of Stirling, led by SINAPSE researchers, which will record brain activity from dancers performing the …more

We are delighted to announce that the office of SINAPSE Director has been taken up by Prof Alison Murray as of 1st April 2017. Prof Murray is the Roland Sutton …more