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World’s first artificial pancreas app licensed for people with type 1 diabetes in UK
Pioneering diabetes researcher Professor Roman Hovorka today launches the world’s first licensed, downloadable artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes.Read more
Celebrating International Women’s Day
This year for International Women’s Day, the NIHR Cambridge BRC highlighted some of their women working in research and making a real difference to the NHS, read their inspiring stories.Read more
It’s your data – so have your say in how it should be used
How do you think health data should be shared and used – and who should share it?
Now’s your chance to tell Cambridge researchers what you think about accessing, sharing and using YOUR Read more
New NIHR Cambridge BRC director appointed
The NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has announced Dr Miles Parkes will be the new director of the centre, based at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).
Dr Miles Parkes is currently a consultant Read more
NIHR Cambridge BRC research highlights over 2019
From breath tests for cancer to finding the root of childhood kidney cancer, what are the research stories that NIHR Cambridge BRC supported or funded which hit the news over 2019? Click on Read more
Scientists discover root of childhood kidney cancer
A fundamental change in our understanding of the childhood kidney cancer Wilms’ tumour is on the horizon, after the discovery of its earliest genetic root by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Read more
Winning research poster at our Open Evening unveiled – as voted for by you!
Is DNA your destiny?
Not necessarily, according to Cambridge postdoctoral researcher Dr Kousik Kundu – whose poster was voted the public’s favourite at the NIHR Cambridge BRC Open Evening which took place last Read more
Public Open Evening highlights research expansion plans for campus
It is already a world-leader in clinical care and research – and now there are plans for the Cambridge Biomedical campus to literally build on this reputation, as more than 150 people found Read more
Patients living with Crohn’s and colitis to benefit from £5m grant for a new data research hub based in Cambridge
£5m grant awarded by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) to establish a health data research hub for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) following a successful bid led by Eastern AHSN and Cambridge Read more
A life of low cholesterol and BP slashes heart and circulatory disease risk
Modest and sustained decreases in blood pressure and cholesterol levels reduces the lifetime risk of developing fatal heart and circulatory diseases, such as heart attack and stroke, according to research. Read more
World Health Organisation CVD risk charts updated using Cambridge-led research
Research revising the World Health Organisation (WHO) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction charts to aid efforts to reduce the burden of CVD, especially in low- and middle-income countries, has been published by The Lancet Global Health.Read more
New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts
A combination of heart cells derived from human stem cells could be the answer to developing a desperately-needed treatment for heart failure, according to new research part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Read more
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