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Explorathon 2016

Two current PhD students, Pelin Ozgur Polat and Rachel Nutt will participate in the Explorathon European Researchers Event taking place 30th September-1st October.

St Andrews Parkrun

First year St Andrews medics led the way in demonstrating the importance of exercise when it comes to maintaining health and wellbeing.

Patrons Programme 2016

Dr Silvia Paracchini has recently given a lecture on handedness and genetics as part of the Patrons Programme 2016

CCBRT visit

Dr Blaikie visited his collaborators in Tanzania at CCBRT hospital to develop the Global Health Implementations team’s work on Tanzanian Endemic Optic Neuropathy.

COECSA 2016

Dr Blaikie attended COECSA 2016 presenting 3 papers and 2 posters from his research team based on low cost retinal imaging devices for low and middle income countries.

MSc Global Health Implementation

Nine students took the inaugural Globalization and Health Module of the Global Health Implementation MSc. Part of the requirement for this largely student centred module was to produce a fact sheet related to the…

Global Early Adolescent Study

Researchers from Malawi College of Medicine and the University of St Andrews met in Lilongwe to discuss and share the initial findings of the ‘Global Early Adolescent Study’ (www.geastudy.org) with the Ministry of…

Fight for Sight

Dr Alan Stewart visited the Fight for Sight headquarters in London on the 2nd August to update the charity on his recently funded project grant.