Interested in hearing more about nerve-macrophage interactions in the salivary gland? Sign up to this meeting to hear a double dose from myself (talking about the work of Emmerson Lab & Calum Bain postdoc Lizi Hegarty) and Centre for Regenerative Medicine Eastbio DTP #PhD student Erin Watson.

“The more I’ve become comfortable with discussing the blips in the road, the more I’ve learned from them.” Yesterday IRR researchers CJ and Elaine offered some fantastic insight for the PostDoc Soc (BioQuarter) roundtable 'Failure in academia' and joined in with some very delightful dog therapy!🐾

Sally Lowell receives Wolpert Medal! Professor Sally Lowell has been awarded the 2024 Wolpert Medal by British Society for Developmental Biology for her extraordinary contributions to the teaching and communication of Developmental Biology. 📰Read the full article here: edin.ac/4aYTO35

Thoroughly enjoyed presenting for Pint of Science UK #pint24 #ourbody #edinburgh last night with my Institute for Regeneration and Repair colleague Anderson lab where we discussed spit, salivary glands, radiotherapy, digestion, gut bacteria, chemotherapy, cell death & much more!

The annual IRR Symposium has begun! We are so excited to hear about the innovative work of our researchers from across the Institute. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. #IRRSymposium24

A great couple of days spent in Stockholm attending the Oral-Gut Conferences #oralgut2 meeting with Lizi Hegarty who superbly presented some of the work of her PhD with Calum Bain The Centre for Inflammation Research & her postdoc with Emmerson Lab Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

We are excited to introduce our newest group leader Dr Stefano Comazzetto Stefano Comazzetto who has been awarded The University of Edinburgh Chancellor's Fellowship. Stefano will investigate how diet-derived metabolites control stem cell function in haematopoiesis. regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/news/latest-ne…

Thank you to everyone who made our community science festival Castlebrae such a success! Children from @stfrancisps Castleview Primary Niddrie Mill made fabulous assistants together with staff and students from Edinburgh BioQuarter and The University of Edinburgh, what a lovely community vibe 🥰

Fantastic day @ Scottish #DevBio Group Meeting. 🌟 PhD student Aisling Fairweather presented the Synthetic Developmental Biology toolbox for transgenesis and neighbour labelling developed with Sally Lowell @[email protected], & won a prize to boot 🏆 Thanks to organisers & British Society for Developmental Biology for sponsoring!

Professor Tilo Kunath Kunath Lab talks about his part in the story of Joy Milne "The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s" in The New York Times Magazine nytimes.com/2024/06/14/mag…

A Very interesting, informative and phenomenal day at The University Of Edinburgh-Centre for Regenerative Medicine with Funding Neuro Bryn Williams, CEO David Mulligan, Colin Grant, Sinead Howard & Mhairi McManus visiting the amazing Professor Tilo Kunath on cure for Parkinson’s.

Nominations are open to vote for the University’s 2024 Technician Award! Know someone that’s been exceptional? Vote for them now: edin.ac/3wlifUe

Welcome to all our 2024 summer interns! Pupils from our local high schools join us for a 4 week internship. We wish them a fantastic time as they work with the researchers and facilities teams across the Institute. #CommunityMatters

At the IRR, our biomedical research is incredibly diverse. To give you a full flavour of all we do across our centres, we will be spotlighting a new research area every couple of months. Today is World Skin Health Day (WSHD) and to celebrate we will be sharing our skin and spinal cord research.

As part of our look into skin and spinal cord health, we asked members of the Williams Group to share their research into Multiple Sclerosis and how the spinal cord is involved in this work. 🎥 Watch the full video on our LinkedIn and Instagram pages. #MS #WhyLabResearchMatters

IRR People: Dr Rana Fetit – ‘It's Alive’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe tomorrow, 13:40 at The Stand Comedy Club! We spoke to Dr Rana Fetit about her research, new comic book and upcoming Fringe show. Read the full interview here: edin.ac/3XoWN17

There’s still time to catch my collaboration with the amazingly talented Kelly Zou at the Developing Brain exhibition! 🧠✨🎨

CRM Institute for Regeneration and Repair to help train the next generation of dementia researchers as part of the new Alzheimer's Society Doctoral Training Centre for Vascular and Immune Contributors to Dementia led by Manchester University Read more 📖 regenerative-medicine.ed.ac.uk/news/latest-ne…

🚪 Doors Open Day at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Regeneration and Repair and Usher Building! Join us for a day of science activities, games, exhibits and tours🧬 Saturday 28 September 10am-4pm at the Edinburgh BioQuarter Find out more at regeneration-repair.ed.ac.uk/events