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Dec 13, 2023
Category: Archive, Awards & External Networks
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Maura Malpetti awarded the ‘Italy Made Me Life Sciences Award’

Maura Malpetti was recently awarded the ‘Italy Made Me Life Sciences Award’ sponsored by Dottore London at the Italian Embassy in London for her innovative research into neurodegeneration. Maura is…

Dec 13, 2023
Category: Archive, Awards & External Networks, CamBRAIN
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Luisa Fassi receives the ‘Youth Mental Health Prize’

Luisa Fassi was recently awarded the ‘Youth Mental Health Prize’ from Il Circolo Italian Cultural Association at the Italian Embassy in London for her research and…

Dec 6, 2023
Category: Archive, Research
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Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Researchers find that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old which they say is too late to form the foundation of language.

Dec 5, 2023
Category: Archive, Policy, Research
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Policy Workshop Report: Stress and School Environment

26 June 2023 at Christ’s College, Cambridge In June 2023, CSaP organised a Policy Workshop in partnership with the Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Research Centre and the Department…

Nov 30, 2023
Category: Archive, CamBRAIN, Postdoc Neuroscience Network, Public Engagment
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FameLab UK is back!

We are searching for the UK’s next best Science Communicator. Are you an early career scientist (now including social sciences), technologist, engineer or mathematician, are passionate about STEM, and would…

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Archive
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Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for major cause of stroke and vascular dementia

Cambridge scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak,…

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Archive, Research
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Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive MS

An international team has shown that the injection of a type of stem cell into the brains of patients living with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) is safe, well tolerated and…

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Archive, Postdoc Neuroscience Network, Training, Vacancies
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Navigating the Academic Job Market

Are you a STEM researcher considering what an academic career might look like? Wondering how to refine applications? Looking for top tips from those who have just started out…

Nov 29, 2023
Category: Archive, Vacancies
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Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience

The School of Biological Sciences is pleased to invite applications for three new Professor posts, available from October 2024: Professor of Integrative and Systems Neuroscience Professor of Evolutionary Networks Professor…

Nov 23, 2023
Category: Archive, Funding
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BBSRC IAA: Pump-Priming Funding Call 2024

Open to Principal Investigators, or ECRs with a PI as co-applicant, employed by the collegiate University and working within a department with project proposals within the …