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NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
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An @nihr.bsky.social partnership between @cuh.nhs.uk and the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk We research different diseases to find new treatments & medicines. Based at CUH & Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre https://cambridgebrc.nihr.ac.uk
What a fantastic series of talks from our 3 speakers, Dr Anna Moore Winter, Dr Kate Baker & Dr Chenqu Suo at our Public Open Event in Translational research in infants, children and young people! Topics included big data, rare childhood disorders & brain development! @cuh.nhs.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tomorrow! Thursday 20 Nov! FREE, F2F, public event about paediatric translational research! Hear from 3 local researchers about big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease!
👉 Talks 4pm & 6pm
👉 Refreshments and poster exhibition 5pm - 6pm
👉 bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
RESEARCHERS do you want to use our wonderful PPI Panel to review your documents or hold focus groups? Please note our Christmas deadlines in the slide below! The PPI office will close from ​
22 Dec-4 Jan 2026 ​& no doc reviews will be sent to the Panel from 15 Dec-6 Jan @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📣 Don't miss out on this FREE, F2F, open event to learn more about paediatric research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease!
📣 20 Nov | Hexagon Room, CUH
📣 Talks 4pm & 6pm
📣 Poster exhibition & refreshments 5pm - 6pm
📣 Book: bit.ly/47EIvhV
📣 All Welcome!
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
LEARN something you didn't know before in our FREE talk 20 Nov @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social from doctors & researchers about their paediatric translational research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease. ALL WELCOME! bit.ly/4nCoTjf @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Curious to know what a poster entitled 'DNA in The Fast Lane' is about?
Come along to our FREE open event on paediatric research 20th Nov & find out!
Great posters to view, researcher talks & refreshments..did we mention this event is FREE?? bit.ly/47EIvhV
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cph.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Curious to know what a poster entitled DNA in the fast lane is all about? Come along to our free open event on paediatric research 20th Nov & find out! Some great posters to view, researcher talks, free refreshments...did we mention this event is FREE? bit.ly/47EIvhV
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
LEARN something you didn't know before in our FREE talk 20 Nov @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social from doctors & researchers about their paediatric translational research in big data, child mental health & childhood rare disease. ALL WELCOME! bit.ly/4nCoTjf @cam.ac.uk @cuh.nhs.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
The death of the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of DNA, James Watson, has been announced. He was 97.

Together with Francis Crick, he identified the double-helix while working @cambridgephysics.bsky.social. Famously, they announced they'd "discovered the secret of life" in the pub: bit.ly/4qP3Cpd
Discovering 'the secret of life' - 70th anniversary of DNA double helix breakthrough
The DNA structure breakthrough at Cambridge has led to world-changing advances in many fields, not least in biological research. But the discovery was only possible because of the work of a host of ta...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨Cambridge researchers are leading the way in developing the world’s first cot-side functional neuroimaging system to help rapidly detect brain injuries such as cerebral palsy in newborns.
🚨 Learn more: bit.ly/47INInH
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @braininjuryhrc.bsky.social @gowerlabs.bsky.social
Cutting-edge baby brain scan technology is world first - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
A team effort to develop the world’s first cot-side functional neuroimaging technology to speedily detect brain injuries including cerebral palsy in newborn babies is being spearheaded in Cambridge.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What's Dr Anna Moore Winter got to say about harnessing big data to make paediatric research (focusing on child mental health) easier? Find out at our Open Event 20 Nov featuring talks & posters from local paediatric researchers. FREE! Light refreshments! bit.ly/4nCoTjf
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What's Dr Kate Baker got to say on how rare childhood disorders affect brain development & learning? Find out at our Open Event 20 Nov featuring talks & posters from local paediatric researchers. FREE! Choice of afternoon & evening sessions! Refreshments! bit.ly/4nCoTjf
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What's Dr Chenqu Suo got to say on how a young patient’s diagnostic journey transformed understanding of CRMO? Find out on 20 Nov: Open Event with talks & posters from local paediatric researchers. FREE! Choice of afternoon/evening sessions! Refreshments! bit.ly/4nCoTjf
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🧠 Cambridge researchers have discovered living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood may increase the risk of dementia
🧠 Deprivation can limit brain-healthy behaviours, leading to poorer cognition
🧠To find out more: bit.ly/4947oEQ
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @audreylow.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social
Cambridge Study show why living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood may increase dementia risk - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Cambridge BRC researchers have discovered why living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood may be linked to an increase in an individual’s risk of dementia.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on haematopoiesis🩸

Please join us on 19 November for the next instalment of our seminar series, with talks from Adam Wilkinson and Cédric Ghevaert from @scicambridge.bsky.social.

View talk titles and register: milner.glueup.com/ev...
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 Time is running out to book yourself onto our free, public open event to hear the latest research on early life and development!
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov | 4-7pm
☕️ Opportunity to network & refreshments included!
👋 All welcome!
👉Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🌟As part of Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge Picturehouse will be showing 'Shades of Survival', a film by David Ayeni, featuring Victoria Ekanoye, actress and breast cancer survivor.
🌟The film powerfully highlights global inequities in breast cancer care
👇 World Premier | Sunday 26 Oct | 16.05pm
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📣 Catch the Cambridge BRC's very own NIHR Director, Miles Parkes talking on BBC Look East about the PROFILE study
📣 PROFILE has shown treating Crohn’s Disease early transforms lives andcould save the NHS up to £20m per year!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @nihr.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📣 Cambridge study reveals how hidden problems in the brain’s waste clearance system could be quietly increasing the risk of dementia as we age.
🧠Understanding dementia risk factors, such as cardiovascular disease & poor sleep, could also help with prevention.
🔗 bit.ly/47ntKi3
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
Dementia linked to problems with brain’s waste clearance system, say Cambridge scientists - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Problems with the brain’s waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌟Cambridge researchers have shown that treating Crohn's disease early can improve quality of life & save the NHS up to £20m per year!
👉Treatment soon after diagnosis results in less flare ups and complications meaning less hospital admissions.
🔗To learn more: bit.ly/47kgJWB
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
Early Crohn’s disease treatment improves quality of life and could save NHS up to £20m per year, study shows - NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
A team of doctors in Cambridge are calling for changes to how Crohn’s disease is treated following an economic analysis of recent ground-breaking research.The analysis shows that early effective treat...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A Cambridge Hospital has become the 1st in Europe to use a unique cancer treatment on patients, outside of a clinical trial 👏 @cuh.nhs.uk
The cancer cells are targeted by sound waves which cause them to collapse
To read more ➡️ bit.ly/4hnsUpW
@cam.ac.uk @ferdiagallagher.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As part of #BlackHistoryMonth NIHR are honouring Black contributions to research and the change they inspire in healthcare.
Learn more about Dr Bamidele's work in understanding the stigma around early prostate cancer diagnosis in Black men
👉 bit.ly/4o4BXi4
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
👉Dont miss out! There's still time to book onto the 2025 School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture by Professor Davey Smith
🗓️ 16 October | 5 - 7pm
📍William Harvey Lecture Theatre | Clinical School
Book via QR code or link 👉 bit.ly/45WynAb
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cpftresearch.bsky.social
This year's 'School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture' will given by Professor George Davey Smith on Evidence Triangulation
🗓️ 16 October 17.00 - 19.00
📍William Harvey Lecture Theatre
Book via QR code or link 👉https://bit.ly/45WynAb
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
➡️ Are you an ECR working with the rare disease community?
➡️ Are you working with a PPIE contributor?
➡️ Why not celebrate your collaboration and apply for an award using the QR code below?
@cuh.nhs.uk @scicambridge.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @camneuro.bsky.social @cpftresearch.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This weekend we attended both the Big Biology Day
at Hills Rd College & a Health Event at Cambridge Central Mosque along with Cambridge Research Facility
We collected lots of research ideas at the BBD & talked about accessibility & made juice (pic below!) at the Health Event
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🌟 Join our free, public, in-person event to hear from Cambridge researchers about their work with children and young people
🗓️ Thursday 20 Nov, Frank Lee Centre (CUH)
📊 Poster exhibition
🥤 Refreshments included!
👉 Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM