Most of us aspire to have better bodies – we dream of looking younger, more shapely, whatever…. but we don’t want to invest a lot of time or money to achieve this even if it is our #1 new year’s
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Building Superhumans?
Challenges and opportunities
The annual rituals of the festive season and the rapidly-approaching close of 2017 provide the chance to reflect and to look to the future.
Read moreCelebrating a year of successful fundraising
Director’s Year End Blog: Professor Tim Elliott, Director for the Centre for Cancer Immunology, looks back on 2017, a year celebrating successful fundraising.
Read moreListen, reflect and initiate
We recently celebrated 10 years of the Institute of Developmental Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. It brought together teams of scientists to present highlights from their research and look to the future.
Read moreOpen Access is for life and not just for compliance
It seems a long time since I sat in New Jersey watching dawn silhouette the skyscrapers of Manhattan as I wrote my last Faculty blog. Today I am sat in the (slightly) less inspiring location of Building 85 having come
Read moreCentre for Cancer Immunology update
We are only eight weeks away from taking possession of the iconic new building at the front of the University Hospital campus, which will be the headquarters for the Centre for Cancer Immunology.
Read moreAn interesting meeting on election day
On election-day, exactly a week ago at the time of writing, I found myself in a hotel room in Geneva, where I was chairing a meeting sponsored by the World Health Organisation and the European Society for the Clinical &
Read moreFurthering the Enterprise agenda
The Faculty were delighted to be awarded two MRC grants which will further the Enterprise agenda. Both are awarded with the aim of translating our high quality basic research to the clinic and are designed to fund translation rather than
Read moreScience, scientists and evidence-based policy…
This week I am in Weehawken, New Jersey, just across the river from Manhattan attending the 6th Annual In-FLAME Global Network meeting on the theme of “Building Resiliency: Inflammation, Ecosystems and the Transformation of Global Health”.
Read morePodcasting science
A long time ago, probably before some of my undergrads were even born, I was once a humble postdoc. To cheer myself up, as I plugged away in the lab trying to squeeze a bit of data from some probably
Read moreBig data could transform medical care
Whenever an advert pops up on my Facebook page selling me exactly what I had been searching for the day before; or the supermarket gives discounts fitting my shopping profile, I quite rightly assume that ‘my data’ has been analysed,
Read morePublic engagement with research
In a world of #alternativefacts, it is more important than ever that we seek to engage the public with our research.
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