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Experts play key role in bid to curb Covid-19

02 June, 2020

Researchers from across the University are rallying to support global efforts to combat the…

Experts appointed to Covid-19 advisory group

02 June, 2020

Four Edinburgh researchers have joined a group providing expert advice to the Scottish Government…

University fast-tracks innovation to battle Covid-19

02 June, 2020

Edinburgh researchers are joining forces with commercial companies to quickly develop new…

UK launches £20m whole genome sequence alliance to map spread of coronavirus

02 June, 2020

A team of academics at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian are part of national consortium…

School facility to provide essential proteins for coronavirus research

11 May, 2020

Edinburgh Protein Production Facility (EPPF) have joined a national consortium to provide medically…

Two-tier approach could begin lockdown end

06 May, 2020

Easing the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown could begin by strengthening protection for the most vulnerable…

Nuclear pore transport puzzle solved by super-resolution microscopy

04 May, 2020

A study has solved a long-standing debate about the transport of essential proteins, implicated in…

Adrian Bird shares world’s largest prize for pioneering brain research

29 April, 2020

Sir Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics based at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and…

Professor Keith Matthews elected Fellow of the Royal Society

28 April, 2020

Keith Matthews, Professor of Parasite Biology, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in…

Sandy Hetherington awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

22 April, 2020

Sandy Hetherington, an evolutionary biologist, is the recipient of a UK government fellowship that…