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COPSAC

The origins of asthma

Led by Professor Hans Bisgaard, the COPSAC research unit focuses on phenotyping children and their environmental exposures to study asthma and other chronic inflammatory...
Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age

Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age

Newcastle University began research into ageing with pioneering work on dementia in the 1960s and 1970s. The university was one of the first to recognise...
CTEPH

BPA in inoperable CTEPH patients

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a common form of pulmonary hypertension. Up to 5% of patients who survive acute pulmonary embolism will develop...
Lund University Diabetes Centre

It’s not all about inflammation

EU programmes at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, provide novel insights into the mechanisms behind the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes Cardiovascular disease...
UK scientists to subdue global spread of new diseases

UK scientists to subdue global spread of new diseases

A new research hub has been set up in the UK to improve vaccine coverage across the globe, helping eradicate severe outbreaks of diseases...
Department of Emergency Medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Brussels

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is an internationally orientated university in Belgium which, for more than 180 years, has been helping to build a better...
The Institute of Hygiene

The Institute of Hygiene: Teaching and research at the University Hospital Münster

The Institute of Hygiene covers the field of hospital and environmental hygiene in teaching and services at the University Hospital Münster, Germany. It also...
Emergency and Disaster Medicine Group

Disaster as a discipline

The Emergency and Disaster Medicine Group of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, asks how academia can help manage mass casualty situations. The Emergency and Disaster Medicine...
The Bavarian way of biobanking

The Bavarian way of biobanking

The German Heart Center Munich sets an example for the combination of smart biobanking, biomarker research and data science High-quality biobanking for tissue and body...
Mass casualty incidents can no longer be ignored

The professionals

The head of KU Leuven’s Unit of Emergency Medicine, Marc Sabbe, considers the reactions of medical professionals in terror attacks Mass casualty incidents can no...
© University of Genoa

The University of Genoa uses mesenchymal stem cells to treat neurodegenerative diseases

The University of Genoa uses mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Regenerative medicine represents a challenging area facing one of...
© Eurocine Vaccines

Vaccines versus the flu

Eurocine Vaccines plans clinical trials including the elderly in the influenza season, as Hans Arwidsson details Eurocine Vaccines (AktieTorget:EUCI) is planning its next clinical step...
Fig. 1 Peripheral (Pharyngeal Electrical Stimulation, PES) and central (transcranial direct current stimulation, tDCS) stimulation strategies targeting the swallowing network. ©Heike Blum, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Germany. View larger image

Firing up the swallowing network

The University Hospital Münster The University Hospital Münster, Germany, uses peripheral and central stimulation strategies to treat post-stroke dysphagia. The oropharyngeal swallow involves a rapid, highly...
Fig. 1 Algal blooms can be harmful to agriculture

The University of Waterloo reconciles agriculture and water quality

Agricultural nutrient legacies delay the recovery of healthy aquatic ecosystems, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo, Canada Agriculture is a dominant source of...
Amber, age 12, CDKL5 patient © Healx

Repurposing for rare diseases

Healx Ltd aims to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases by intelligently matching drug treatments There are over 8,000 rare diseases affecting an...
Fig. 1 NeptunLab's material platforms tools are divided into novel material fabrication, material structuring, and material functionalisation techniques

NeptunLab explains the developments in healthcare material platforms

Dr Bastian Rapp of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s NeptunLab explains how material research is key to the future of healthcare research Healthcare research is situated...
Ethical animal testing and drug development at CABMM

Ethical animal testing and drug development at CABMM

The Competence Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM) is an innovative, cutting-edge medical research organisation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which brings...

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