Director of SINAPSE Thank you so much for your support over the past 7 years. I’m fortunate that the opportunity to take over from Joanna Wardlaw as Director of SINAPSE …more

Courtesy of Anu Chandra, this micro-ultrasound image shows in vivo sciatic nerve of a pig. Fascicles can be seen as fine honeycomb patterns which are poorly echogenic round areas surrounded …more

Among the state-of-the-art medical imaging facilities recently opened at SINAPSE centres is the MR PET system at Edinburgh Imaging Facility QMRI, which is now being put to its first use …more

The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences.  The programme currently includes …more

A guest blog for the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) describes the role that SINAPSE plays in maintaining a shared national environment for imaging research, knowledge exchange and education in Scotland. …more

2016 was an eventful year for the Scottish imaging research community, which saw the procurement of state-of-the-art imaging facilities including Scotland’s first MR-PET system and Scotland’s first 7 Tesla (7T) …more

For details of this project (employing Palladium catalysis for the synthesis of new PET tracers) at VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, go to https://www.werkenbijvumc.nl/vacatures/phd-student-new-directions-to-radiotracers-for-pet-via-pd-catalysis/ The deadline for application is 29 …more

The University of Stirling wishes to appoint three Psychologists within the Faculty of Natural Sciences: 2 x Lecturers in Real World Cognition Cognitive Neuroscience researchers with experience investigating real world …more

The post-holder will contribute to a 3-year project on neurovascular coupling, metabolism and high-resolution fMRI in rodents working with Dr Jozien Goense. The project focuses on development and application of …more

The inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting of the Scottish Ultrasound Group (SUG) was held at the Queen’s Medical Research Institute (QMRI), Edinburgh, on the 8th of March 2017. Opened by Helen …more

For International Women’s Day 2017, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) interviewed women working in both academic radiology research and interventional radiology. Among those interviewed was Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Chair …more

Applications are invited for a faculty position in Cognitive Neuroimaging from individuals with an outstanding research record. The post is designed to complement existing research strengths in the Institute for …more

Courtesy of Dr David Alexander Dickie, this image shows white matter hyperintensities (blue) in structural brain MRI from a middle-aged participant in the UK Biobank study. White matter hyperintensities (WMH) …more

Due to the generous funding given by many institutes, charities and organisations, resulting in a £14 million makeover to the Edinburgh Imaging facilities, based on the BioQuarter Campus. Two new …more

For details of this project with Dr Nik Hirani, Prof Aziz Sheikh, Dr Kev Dhallwal & Prof Edwin Van Beek in Edinburgh (funded by the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Precision Medicine), …more