Are you a #HealthcareProfessional working within #SouthYorkshire? Are you looking to develop a clinical academic career? Applications are now open to the NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre Pre-Application Support Fund! 🔗 Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/48VzH67

Busy first day at ISPOR24. Lots of interest. On to day 2.

Another good church window

Seems appropriate at the moment

Lovely to see so many Sheffield alumni at #ISPOR24 - now thriving in industry roles. Gratifying to hear how their MSc experiences have shaped their careers.

Over the past five years, thanks to your support, we've seen unrivaled progress in understanding how to detect & treat #PancreaticCancer. Find out more about your impact so far: bit.ly/45LGNJ5 Help us fund much-needed research breakthroughs: bit.ly/3V9Byi4

Happy St Andrew’s day to all of our Scottish friends and visitors in Sheffield.

Carlyle-backed life sciences investor launches $1.5bn clinical trials fund ft.com/content/22d520…

It looks like you all missed the chance to study for an MSc in Molecular Medicine The University of Sheffield. It's finished and the work my colleagues have put in to completely redesigning the curriculum has been in vain. Don't tell the staff student numbers/income is down again next year.

December update

BERT/FRET explained

The Health and Safety Executive in its reply to Uni of Birmingham's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'. 'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'

Coventry University Coventry University to axe 92 jobs and transfer academics to subsidiary firm. Remaining staff will lose access to Teachers’ Pensions Scheme as UCU attacks cuts “straight out of the Scrooge playbook”. Juliette Rowsell reports bit.ly/4ghVhVv

📢We have a vacancy for a @DunhillMedical funded #ResearchAssociate #PDRA to join @Henriques_TRIA Lab 🥼🧫🔬🧪 #Ageing #Immunity #StemCells #Immunology #Zebrafish #CareerDevelopment The University of Sheffield Jobs Ref: 565 Closing date: 31 Jan 2025 Further Information:⬇️ jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD924/res…

An opioid with a literal, light-sensitive 'on/off switch' to avoid fatal side effects, that works in vivo? Look no further - Azomorphine-3 (AM3)! The most exciting study I've been part of, thus far. With Seva Katritch Dirk H. Trauner and Josh Levitz lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Season's greetings from RCSB PDB: rcsb.org/news/67478994f…

Merry Christmas to all math people!

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.