Lecturer's TEDx talk on immunology/inflammation

See Professor Simon Jackson's new TEDx talk on communication between immune cells (based on some of his work with cell models and lung infections) entitled "Every breath you take – how cell barriers protect the body"

Lecturer wins 'Jewel of India' award

One of our newer lecturers, Tina Joshi, has just been awarded the Hind Rattan, or ‘Jewel of India’. This is one of the highest awards given to non-resident Indians by the NRI Welfare Society of India, and celebrates her work in combating the rise of antibiotic resistance. You can read more about this on the university site here.

School responds to importance of genomics

The increasing awareness of the importance of genetic differences between individual patients poses a series of challenges to modern healthcare and related education. Two of our teaching staff, Lynn McCallum and Elaine Green, went to the recent meeting of the Westminster Health Forum entitled Future of Personalised and Genomic Medicine held on the 14th of December 2017 in London.

Over the past two years the School has moved to meet these challenges, specifically as laid out in the QAA's 2015 Benchmark statement for Biomedical Sciences. This has resulted in the inclusion of genomic and bioinformatics within undergraduate taught programmes to ensure graduates are skilled and prepared to deal with this massive change of practice within their career. The MSc in Biomedical Science has a core taught module on Genomics and Proteomics to provide a comprehensive overview of basic genomics and proteomics, understanding the latest experimental techniques and interpretation of data. Bioinformatics is also available as an optional taught module.

Lecturer wins national teaching award

Congratulations to Andy Foey, our Associate Professor in Immunology, who has just won the inaugural Teaching Excellence Award of the British Society for Immunology.

You can read more about this on the university website and there will be an interview with Andy in the next edition of Immunology News, due out February 2018.