The identification of myocardial infarction (MI) patients who can benefit from revascularisation remains one of the most challenging aspects of cardiology. Ideally, an assessment of viability following myocardial ischaemia requires …more
The SPRINT-MND/MS (Scottish PhD Research & Innovation Network Traineeships in MND/MS) programme is a network of PhD studentships across Scotland, to promote research into all aspects of motor neurone disease …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 includes the …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 includes the …more
SINAPSE researchers welcomed image analysis experts from National Taiwan University (NTU) to Scotland in September 2017, as part of an international research collaboration on diffusion MRI data analysis supported by …more
The ‘Women in Medicine’ project, coordinated by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), showcases a number of today’s leading female clinicians and the women from the history of medicine who …more
Members of the newly-revived SINAPSE Image Analysis topic group gathered at the University of Dundee for an inaugural meeting of researchers from around Scotland presenting and discussing work on the …more
Courtesy of Dr Jonathan Fallowfield, this image shows LiverMultiscan MRI axial T1 relaxation maps of liver in the same patient before [left] and 4 weeks after [right] treatment of portal hypertension with non-selective …more
Courtesy of Vasiliki Mallikourti, this image shows an R2* map of the brain where every voxel in the image has an R2* value. R2* is the decay rate of the …more
Heat has been used as a basic and versatile treatment in Medicine for thousands of years. However, there is still relatively little objective evidence regarding how and when heat treatments …more
The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is a £250 million initiative dedicated to addressing the challenge of defeating dementia. The institute consists of 6 centres across the UK; its …more
The University of Dundee has been awarded a £7million grant from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Global Health programme to establish a major new Scotland-India clinical partnership to …more
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to make a strong contribution to the EPSRC funded programme, ‘Sonopill: minimally invasive gastrointestinal diagnosis and therapy’ (sonopill.dundee.ac.uk), and to be responsible for …more
Courtesy of Dr Ourania Varsou and Dr Filip Zmuda (and photographer Prof Dave Wyper), this month’s image was captured at their wedding on 3rd July at the House for an …more
Congratulations to Professor David Lurie, who has been awarded the 2017 IPEM Academic Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to the advancement of academic practice in medical physics. Professor Lurie is …more