2018 news

Archived news from the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences 2018

The EMBO Young Investigator Programme offers recent group leaders with a track record of scientific excellence access to funding, training and networking opportunities.   

The grant has been awarded for the research project "Advancing renal tissue engineering: equipping tissue-engineered kidneys with a ureter".

Dr Christos Gkogkas and colleagues (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, and Patrick Wild Centre) have published a study that may shed light on why a certain category of antidepressant drugs stop working in some people.

Prof Mike Ludwig explains the scientific background to this theory.

Dr Chris Henstridge and Professor Tara Spires-Jones (both Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) and colleagues have published a study which sheds light on how motor neurone disease (MND) affects the processes within the brain.

Edinburgh Neuroscientists Dr Dorothy Tse and Dr Antonis Asiminas (both Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) helped organise the first ever Scottish Brain Bee, which was held at the University of Edinburgh on 24 February.

A case series - SYT1-associated neurodevelopmental disorder

New insight into Wnt signalling in animal development.

How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain—the hypothalamus—govern our physiology and behavior.

Many congratulations to Dr Gülsen Sürmeli who has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.

Chris Henstridge talks about Scottish Crucible

Scottish Government funding boost for MND research led by Giles Hardingham

Article appears in Nature Reviews Neurology 9th Feb 2018

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), have made a breakthrough which could lead to a new treatment.