There were some short videos featured in our Faculty eNews highlighting the University successes of 2016 with a time-lapse video showing the growth of our Southampton Centre for Cancer Immunology over the course of the year.
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Cancer genomics
Reviewing long term anti-depressant use
Antidepressant medication prescribing has increased steadily over the past three decades and now more than 60 million prescriptions for the drugs are issued each year in England, to more than 10% of the adult population.
Read moreIn Praise of Peer Review
The email with âInvitation to reviewâ in the subject line arrives; you quickly scan down the email identifying the âDecline invitationâ link; you click the link; the invitation is consigned to history, never to trouble you again.
Read moreAntimicrobial Stewardship
Tackling the rise of antimicrobial resistance is of international priority highlighted by the World Health Organisation…
Read moreMarcus Parry’s week
Marcus Parry, Head of the Academic Unit of Medical Education, shares what’s been happening in his week.
Read moreHuman Development and Health update
The academic unit of Human Development and Health has more than 180 âcoreâ and project specific staff, in conjunction with many affiliated hospital staff and many, many students, all broadly researching human development with a focus on its impact over
Read more100,000 genomes
This month, the Wessex Genome Medicine Centre, based at University Hospital Southampton, will have been open for a year. It has seen nearly 450 people stepping forward to have their genomes analysed.
Read moreWhy NSS matters
Itâ almost time again for the National Student Survey (NSS) to run, the annual collection of opinions from final year students enrolled at the University, commissioned by HEFCE and co-ordinated via Ipsos MORI1.
Read moreA great career in Medicine
âSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulnessâ⊠1 Autumn has arrived, the leaves are turning and thereâs a hint of frost in the morning air. And with this the welcome sight of thousands of new students on campus…
Read moreREF, REF and more REF…
Normally the summer is a quieter time, perfect for finishing those papers that have been long in gestation, or writing that grant application that you have been telling yourself you must do.
Read moreReproducibility and Research Integrity
In amongst all the pressures on us as academics to publish and win grants, it can sometimes be easy to lose sight of why we undertake research â to increase knowledge and hopefully improve diagnosis and treatment of patients in
Read moreA week in the life of the Associate Dean Research
As a Faculty Leadership Team, this week we decided that to keep our colleagues informed about what is going on within the Faculty and wider University, the Associate Deans should take turns to write blog postsâŠ
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