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2023
04
December
2023
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15:39
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The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) are pleased to announce that the Venture Further Awards Competition is now open!
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30
November
2023
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16:00
Europe/London
Patients given transitional care before and during discharge from hospital – such as joint discharge planning follow up visits or phone calls - are less likely to be readmitted according to University of Manchester researchers....
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29
November
2023
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11:40
Europe/London
The University of Manchester (UoM), Boots and No7 Beauty Company have secured Prosperity Partnerships funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to support research advancing understanding of skin health and ensur...
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23
November
2023
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23:30
Europe/London
The most socioeconomically deprived groups in society are nearly twice as likely to die from sepsis within 30 days, researchers from The University of Manchester have found.
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20
November
2023
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10:00
Europe/London
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) is thrilled to announce the resounding success of the most recent Global Entrepreneurship Week.
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16
November
2023
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18:33
Europe/London
Today (Thursday 16 November) saw the official opening the flagship building of the multimillion-pound research and innovation institute that builds on Manchester’s academic strengths in AI, digital health and advanced materials to support the researc...
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15
November
2023
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12:52
Europe/London
The Eve Appeal, together with North West Cancer Research, will be awarding a three-year Fellowship to Dr Kelechi Njoku, from The University of Manchester, to develop a simpler and kinder test for detecting womb cancer....
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14
November
2023
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10:00
Europe/London
Consistent daily patterns of exercise and rest can synchronise the local body clocks associated with joints and spine with the brain clock, potentially helping individuals to maintain skeletal health, improve athletic performance and avoid injury, re...
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10
November
2023
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14:34
Europe/London
Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) is hosting a series of events in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week - 13th -17th November.
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09
November
2023
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10:00
Europe/London
A new UK hub for behavioural research, which includes University of Manchester researchers, has been funded to help tackle societal and economic challenges. Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) is supported by a £10 million grant from the Economic and So...
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02
November
2023
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02:19
Europe/London
Researchers from three universities have teamed up in a bid to discover which questions matters most to the children affected by childhood deafness and hearing loss.
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01
November
2023
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04:20
Europe/London
One of the most common byproducts of the burning of fossil fuels, phenanthrene, causes heart arrythmias in mice, proving for the first time it is toxic to mammals.
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30
October
2023
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13:36
Europe/London
The UK regulatory authorities have approved the first ever trial of a revolutionary gene therapy for young children diagnosed with Hunter syndrome, a devastating rare lysosomal storage disorder.
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20
October
2023
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16:25
Europe/London
Following a series of Introductory Sessions the R2I programme is now open for applications.
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17
October
2023
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15:27
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Scientists from The Universities of Manchester and Auckland have discovered widespread differences in metal levels in the brains of patients with Huntington’s Disease, a type of dementia, compared to a control group with healthy tissue....
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17
October
2023
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13:22
Europe/London
Early results from PharmaKure, a pharmaceutical company spun out from The University of Manchester, shows a novel whole blood test developed by the company is able to quantify Alzheimer’s Disease biomarkers. PharmaKure’s proprietary ALZmetrixTM blood...
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16
October
2023
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10:54
Europe/London
Other mental illness diagnoses, taking psychotropic medication prescribed to treat those illnesses, and specific health service use patterns are strong indicators of bipolar disorder, show researchers from the University of Manchester and Keele Unive...
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16
October
2023
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07:42
Europe/London
Results from the largest ever review of clinical trials in cancer screening, prevention, and early detection (SPED) have been published.
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12
October
2023
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14:00
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An international consortium of leading experts is calling for governments and health systems to acknowledge that male infertility is a common and serious medical condition that may be increasing worldwide, and has provided a first-time roadmap for ur...
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11
October
2023
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10:17
Europe/London
Researchers are investigating how to stop triple negative breast cancer spreading, thanks to new funding from Breast Cancer Now.
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11
October
2023
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08:55
Europe/London
A research project is to investigate a home-based early intervention programme for deaf infants under the age of 6 in South Africa.
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09
October
2023
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08:20
Europe/London
Some of the leading thinkers on different sides of the debate around animal research are to take on the issue in front of University of Manchester staff and students in a live event at the Whitworth Hall on 28 November, between 7pm and 9pm....
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04
October
2023
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13:26
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In March 2023, NHS midwife Olukemi Akinmeji won an employment tribunal case against the hospital in Kent where, as an employee, she had faced race discrimination and victimisation.
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04
October
2023
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09:23
Europe/London
People who shielded during the Covid pandemic say they have been treated like “second class citizens” whose needs have been ignored.People who shielded during the Covid pandemic say they have been treated like “second class citizens” whose needs have...
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04
October
2023
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08:33
Europe/London
The hugely successful Researcher to Innovator (R2I) programme inspiring early career researchers to translate research to impact is back for 2023-24.
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18
September
2023
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09:16
Europe/London
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Manchester have been awarded half a million pounds of funding from the Medical Research Council to produce a new immunotherapy for oesophageal cancer patients....
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15
September
2023
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14:42
Europe/London
The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre welcomes you to the 23/24 academic year.
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14
September
2023
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09:14
Europe/London
Researchers have developed the first reliable test for dementia in people with hearing loss, following an international study led by The University of Manchester scientists.
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13
September
2023
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15:36
Europe/London
A tenacious student managed to graduate from The University of Manchester despite suffering a medical emergency during her final year.
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12
September
2023
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15:13
Europe/London
Hard of hearing people with dementia are not receiving the care they desperately need, according to a new study by University of Manchester researchers.
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