Engineering the body

05 June 2003
Engineering students in their second year at CUED were offered a new course in 'Biological and medical engineering' this term. The response has been enthusiastic, with over 100 students signing up. One of the first practical sessions was offered by Dr Roger Carpenter, an expert in oculmotor control based in the Physiology Laboratory.
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New grant for diabetes research

04 June 2003
Diabetes research at Cambridge has received a boost with £140,000 of funding over the next three years from Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The grant will support a study into hypoglycaemia awareness in people with diabetes.
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Semiconductor research grant

02 June 2003
Research into developing the most important semiconductor since silicon is going to benefit from a £1.2 million new grant awarded by the ESPRC to the University's Centre for Gallium Nitride. The grant will fund a three-year research collaboration to build Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based products with Thomas Swan Scientific Equipment and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
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New Royal Society Fellows

30 May 2003
The following University staff have recently been made Fellows of the Royal Society: John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences; William Bonfield, Professor of Medical Materials; Anthony Dickinson, Professor of Comparative Psychology, Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Stephen O'Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine.
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New RNAi resource

27 May 2003
Scientists working on functional genomics will now be able to benefit from ground-breaking work by Dr Julie Ahringer and her group at the University’s Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology. The University has signed an agreement with MRC geneservice to release a new, revolutionary tool based on the team’s work that will assist in drug discovery and basic research.
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The big flood - risks and remedies

23 May 2003
Fifty years ago, on the night of 31 January to 1 February 1953, a storm surge in the southern North Sea resulted in catastrophic flooding on the coasts of England and the Netherlands, claiming over 2,000 lives. Today (23 May 2003) a Cambridge-organised international conference will review the flood risks which we now face and how we can best deal with them.
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Annual Disability Lecture launched

21 May 2003
The University's first annual lecture on disability issues was delivered this week by Professor Usha Goswami, one of the country's leading cognitive developmental psychologists, who spoke on a cross-language approach to developmental dyslexia.
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CMI host stem cell conference

16 May 2003
Researchers aiming to overcome the acute shortage of bone marrow by finding ways of ‘growing’ it in artificial conditions will be discussing their work at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research next week.
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Founding father leaves bequest

16 May 2003
Last night (15 May 2003) Professor Andrew von Hirsch delivered the first annual Nigel Walker Lecture with a discussion of the criminalisation of ‘anti-social’ behaviour. The Lecture is funded by a bequest from the late Sir Leon Radzinowicz. The bequest will significantly enhance the work of the Institute of Criminology, funding a student prize and visiting fellowship as well as the lecture series.
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Gene linked to diabetes risk

13 May 2003

A team of researchers, led by the University’s Professor John Todd, are a step closer to developing therapies and preventative treatments for Type 1 juvenile diabetes.

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