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Keele researcher speaks to fruit growers
Posted on 07 December 2011
Dr William Kirk was an invited speaker at a Soft Fruit Day organised by the East Malling Research Association and the Horticultural Development Company
Two Prize Winners in Oswestry Spinal Studies research group
Posted on 21 November 2011
Two members of the Spinal Studies research group have won prizes for their work at scientific meetings this month
ISTM welcomes new research students for 2011/12
Posted on 03 November 2011
The Institute has welcomed its new cohort of research students in autumn 2011 studying for higher degrees of PhD, MPhil or DM.
Inaugural lecture beamed live around the world
Posted on 31 October 2011
Professor Anand Pandyan gave his inaugural lecture on "Defining Spasticity" to audiences at Keele's Westminster theatre and live through the internet.
Unique Genetic Profile Identified
Posted on 17 October 2011
Scientists at Keele and the National Institute of Health in Washington, DC, have identified a unique genetic profile associated with a rare brain tumour
Launch of major new Tissue Engineering Centre
Posted on 10 October 2011
Arthritis Research UK, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, and Keele have launched a major experimental tissue engineering centre
ISTM student paper in top nanotechnology journal
Posted on 10 October 2011
ISTM doctoral student Stuart Jenkins has had a paper accepted as first author in the prestigious journal ACS Nano, one of the top nanotechnology journals
Keele MS research makes the pages of "Nature"
Posted on 30 August 2011
The Multiple Sclerosis group at Keele as part of the ‘International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium’ has been successful in publishing a Research Letter in Nature in August.
Medical students visit from Saudi Arabia
Posted on 29 July 2011
THe Research Institute hosted a group of medical students from Saudi Arabia during July, to enable them to learn research techniques in Keele's laboratories
Undergraduate students supporting research into novel antimalarial drugs
Posted on 27 July 2011
Five second year undergraduate students from Keele's Schools of Medicine and Life Sciences are undertaking summer research placements at ISTM in the Huxley Building
An extra year for Keele’s 3ME Initiative
Posted on 27 July 2011
Members of Keele’s 3ME Initiative celebrated a £50,000 extension to the project and double winners in the latest poster competition for funded pilot projects
Double win for Keele medical research posters
Posted on 15 June 2011
Two Keele researchers gave excellent impromptu presentations of their first prize winning posters at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire Research Day on 14 June.
BMJ Front Cover feature
Posted on 13 June 2011
Professor Shaughn O’Brien had his latest publication featured on the front page of this week’s British Medical Journal.
British Crystallographic Association meeting at Keele
Posted on 15 April 2011
The 2011 Meeting of the British Crystallographic Association was held at Keele in mid April, including work from groups at the university.
Bone Imaging - of mice and men
Posted on 08 April 2011
A large audience from Keele's 3ME Initiative gathered to hear Prof Ralph Müller, from the Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zurich, give a seminar on bone imaging.
Congratulations to ISTM members on their promotions
Posted on 25 March 2011
Five ISTM members of academic and clinical staff have achieved promotions in the lastest round, congratulations to: Prof Gordon Hamilton, Prof Khaled Ismail, Prof Anand Pandyan, Dr Divya Chari and Dr Mike Evans.
Research Retreat for the 3ME Initiative
Posted on 25 March 2011
Members of Keele's 3ME Initiative ejnoyed an intensive Research Retreat at Coniston Water from 22-24 March.
Double success from the Royal Society
Posted on 11 March 2011
Two teams in the Research Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine have been successful in the Royal Society Research Grant scheme in early 2011.
Keele welcomes Institut Pasteur visitors
Posted on 10 March 2011
A group of three visiting scientists from the Institut Pasteur in Paris toured the University's research facilities and met with students to continue and build the ERASMUS exchange programme.
£1million MRC award to fight malaria
Posted on 10 March 2011
A major new award of £1million from the Medical Research Council African Research Leader Scheme will bring together medical entomology teams from Keele and the Centre Muraz in Burkina Faso.
A fire that Burns Within - Prof Gordon Ferns' Inaugural Lecture
Posted on 10 March 2011
Professor Gordon Ferns gave the sixth lecture in the University's programme of Inaugural Lectures for 2010/11. The title of the lecture was "A fire that burns within: the impact of free radicals in health and disease".
ISTM researcher attracted to magnetic facilities in France
Posted on 11 February 2011
As part of her work on corneal regeneration, Dr Ying Yang will take up a secondment to the EuroMagNetII facilities at Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble, France.
Marshall Scholar from USA visits Keele
Posted on 11 February 2011
In February ISTM hosted Steven Robinette, a Marshall Scholar from the USA currently studying at Imperial College London, who gave a talk on "Translating Metabolomics".
Epigenetic study makes TV and radio headlines
Posted on 02 February 2011
Groundbreaking work led by the Epigenomics team in ISTM gained wide media coverage at the start of 2011.
Cover art for "Tissue Engineering"
Posted on 24 January 2011
The cover for the January issue of the journal "Tissue Engineering" is an image taken from a recent publication from Dr Divya Chari's laboratory.
£2.5million Wellcome Trust award for field trials
Posted on 24 January 2011
The Wellcome Trust has awarded Dr Gordon Hamilton, ISTM, and co-applicant Dr Orin Courtenay of Warwick University, £2.5million for a Strategic Translation Award to conduct field trials of synthetic a sex pheromone to combat leishmaniasis transmission in Brazil.
Donations towards Parkinson's Disease research
Posted on 23 December 2010
Keele's Parkinson's disease research team has accepted donations totalling £20,000 towards supporting a project which aims to identify protein signals that can be used to produce dopamine nerves, which are lost in Parkinson's disease, from stem cells.
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ISTM Research videos online
Video news clips from Research TV about ISTM's research:
- Malaria, Mosquitoes and Man - breaking a deadly cycle
- Breath of Life - a new diagnostic technique
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