A research team led by Exeter has been awarded a £3.3m grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema.

This 5-year study brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL.

Are you aged 40–60 with no history of knee issues (e.g., osteoarthritis, trauma, surgery, or implants)? We’re looking for volunteers to take part in a study on advanced MRI techniques.

Big news from our Academy of Nursing!

Our brand-new BSc Adult Nursing degree has just been approved by the NMC

Launching this Sept, it offers a flexible 3-year path to becoming a registered nurse—alongside our 4-year MSci routes!

Pint of Science is next week!
Grab your tickets now and let your ears are fill with science and your glass fill with beer (or drink of choice).

Breaking Barriers in Academic Medicine!

AIMMS — a national scheme supporting minority women in academic medicine & health sciences — is now active in all UK medical schools

The scheme:
🔹 Supports career progression
🔹 Builds mentor-mentee connections
🔹 Tackles structural barriers in academia

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Hattersley who has just won the Claude Bernard Prize, the highest honour in diabetes research, for a career spent improving care for people with diabetes.

Andrew will deliver the opening lecture at the 61st EASD Annual Meeting to over 10,000 participants.

Our student Innes FitzGerald has just broken her 2nd European U20 record with a 15:08 in the 5k at Bristol Track Club

Her first, 8:40.05 in the 3000m in Ostrava, smashed a 40-year-old British record

Dubbed the “Greta Thunberg of Sport” she is making headlines for green activism as well as speed.

The @exeter.ac.uk team is backing Faith Kipyegon’s bold attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-4-minute mile. Partnering with Nike, leading researchers, will be bringing cutting-edge sport science to Paris on June 26.

Today (April 16), a 65-year-old runner, Steve James, will attempt 200 marathons in 200 days, running the entire coastline of mainland Britain — monitored closely by researchers at the University of Exeter

Police officers are over twice as likely to sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) compared to the general population. And those injuries? They come with a more than doubled risk of complex PTSD.

As anticipation builds for season two of The Last of Us, which imagines a world ravaged by brain-infecting fungal zombies, scientists at the University of Exeter are spotlighting a real-world threat: fungi.

New research suggests relaxation techniques may help lower blood pressure in the short term.

However, the evidence for longer-term effects (beyond 3 months) is limited and uncertain.

Did you lose a loved one suddenly during the COVID-19 pandemic? Your experiences matter, & we want to hear from you for a study exploring how self-perception & thinking styles influence responses to loss during the pandemic.

Click the link to complete the survey. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Call for Participants: Individuals with chronic back pain as well as healthy participants are needed for a new study using virtual reality to investigate how anxiety and fear learning affects chronic pain symptoms.

Please see poster below for more details on how to sign up.

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