Category: News
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Researchers receive £15 million to support pioneering work
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4242″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]Researchers and clinicians at Southampton’s university hospitals have been awarded £15 million to help tackle obesity, poor nutrition, asthma, allergies and infections. The five-year funding arrangement, announced by the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), will see the city’s pioneering nutrition and respiratory research brought together…
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University professor appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4239″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]Professor Cyrus Cooper of the University of Southampton has been appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Professor Cooper, who is Director of the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University, will take up the position immediately and support the Lord-Lieutenant in carrying out his functions as HM The Queen’s…
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Study shows that one size does NOT fit all for pregnancy vitamin D supplementation
Current national guidance suggests that pregnant women take 400 IU vitamin D per day. However, a study from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that women achieve very different blood levels of vitamin D even when taking the same supplement dose. In the study, which will be published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and…
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Dr Christopher Bell leads the largest sequencing-based analysis
Dr Christopher Bell (MRC-LEU and Institute of Developmental Sciences) has led the largest sequencing-based analysis to-date of ageing-related epigenetic changes that occur in the human genome. This work was undertaken in collaboration with Professor Tim Spector at King’s College London and the BGI Shenzhen, and has just been published on-line in Genome Biology.
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Ethnic and geographic variation in mortality after fracture
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”4219″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_row_inner top_margin=”page_margin_top_section”][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Ethnicity and place of residence in the UK influence the risk of dying in the year after breaking a bone, a new Southampton study has shown.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, undertook an analysis of the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink database and calculated the…
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A Question of Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research, the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit held a pub quiz on 22nd June for staff, family and friends at “Rumba” in Southampton. The quiz was opened by our unit director, Professor Cyrus Cooper, and our Associate Professor of Health Psychology, Wendy Lawrence, played quiz mistress.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”4155″ img_size=”full”…
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Leading roles for Southampton researchers in pioneering health project
[vc_row top_margin=”none”][vc_column top_margin=”none” width=”1/1″][vc_single_image image=”4141″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Leading Southampton health researchers are playing a key role in an ambitious national project launched today to scan the bones, hearts and brains of 100,000 middle-aged people. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Bone expert, Nicholas Harvey, Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology at the Medical Research Council (MRC)…
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Risk of breaking a bone depends on where you live
[vc_row top_margin=”none”][vc_column top_margin=”none” width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] A new study has demonstrated substantial differences in the risk of breaking a bone depending upon ethnicity, socioeconomic status and where you live in the UK. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Researchers at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, examined the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink database, which includes General Practice…
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Commitment Award for the Science and Engineering Day
[vc_row top_margin=”none”][vc_column top_margin=”none” width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Congratulations to Tina Horsfall, the Unit’s Communications Officer, who was given the Commitment Award for the Science and Engineering Day activities by the University of Southampton. Tina works incredibly hard at her job and her commitment has been duly acknowledged more widely than just in the Unit. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column top_margin=”none” width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”4117″…
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Study demonstrates links between placenta and offspring bone development
[vc_row top_margin=”none”][vc_column top_margin=”none” width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]New work from the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a larger placenta is associated with larger bones amongst the offspring. This work, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), confirms previous findings from the Southampton group derived from the Southampton Women’s Survey. Researchers studied…