Monthly Archives: April 2016

Medway PhD students travel to Lyon to deliver hands-on scientific workshops to secondary school students. Medway PhD students Filip Kunc and Colin Moore travelled to Lyon from 7 – 11 December to deliver hands-on scientific workshops to secondary school students … Continue reading →

Thursday 21st April 2016, University of Kent’s MEDWAY campus The Kent Academic Primary Care Unit is pleased to be hosting a clinical training session and research seminar on the subject of acute kidney injury (AKI) at our Medway campus on … Continue reading →

The BBC have recently commissioned and just finished filming with Dr Janet Carr, Honorary Senior Researcher, at the Tizard Centre.  Dr Carr has assisted in the making of a film about the history of people with learning disabilities at Normansfield … Continue reading →

On 24 February 2016 Prof Ruth Northway accompanied by her colleagues, Victoria Jones and Lynne Evans gave a very interesting talk at the Tizard research evening seminar.  Prof Northway focused on the how the research was carried out (participatory approach) … Continue reading →

The first of our taster sessions is being held on 21 April 2016, 0930-1300 hrs in the Woodlands Annex, Tizard Centre, UoK.  Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou will be looking at sleep problems in children and adults with intellectual disabilities.  Sleep deprivation … Continue reading →

Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics at the University, has welcomed the go-ahead from the fertility regulator for UK scientists to genetically modify human embryos. Commenting on the decision by the regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), Professor Griffin … Continue reading →

New research has identified a first step in the design of a new generation of anti-cancer drugs that include an agent to inhibit resistance to their effectiveness. The research, by an international team co-led by the University’s Professor Martin Michaelis … Continue reading →

Women who perceive that their sexual partner is imposing perfectionist standards on them may suffer sexual dysfunction as a result, psychologists at the University have found. In the first in-depth study of how different types of sexual perfectionism affect women … Continue reading →

New research has highlighted the potential for the emergence of a new form of Ebolavirus that causes disease in humans. A team from the University’s School of Biosciences examined the differences between Ebolaviruses that cause severe disease in humans and the … Continue reading →