We know it’s been a tough 12 months for people, so all of us at the IMSR would like to wish you a happy new year and better 2021. We hope that things will start to look up soon, especially now that the vaccine programme is already in full swing. We extend these wishes to … Continue reading “Happy New Year from IMSR!”
Author: Caroline Gillett
We Are IMSR: Community Action Team!
****DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 7TH, 2021**** We are now looking for a small number of IMSR Phd & PostDoc volunteers to join our We Are IMSR: Community Action Team (CAT) to support the planning, programming and delivery of this event, as well as other strategic engagement activities throughout the year. Are you a PhD or PostDoc within … Continue reading “We Are IMSR: Community Action Team!”
We Are IMSR World Diabetes Day 2020: Rewatch it!
Missed our We Are IMSR World Diabetes Day 2020 event? Not to worry, you can rewatch the discussion here. Recording from 14th November 2020:
World Diabetes Day – Saturday Nov 14th, 11am!
The IMSR and Centre for Systems Modelling & Quantitative Biomedicine (SMQB) are excited to invite you to a free online event for World Diabetes Day 2020! We are extremely pleased to be hosting this event in partnership with Diabetes UK – a major funder for diabetes research and a crucial source of support for so … Continue reading “World Diabetes Day – Saturday Nov 14th, 11am!”
IMSR Black History Month: Reflections from Miriam Addo
Miriam Addo is Chairperson of the African-Caribbean Medical Society at the University of Birmingham. In this blog post she shares her reflections of IMSR’s recent Black History Month event… Miriam Addo writes: In celebration of Black History Month 2020, The IMSR hosted a virtual panel discussion of which I was honoured to be chair. Panellists … Continue reading “IMSR Black History Month: Reflections from Miriam Addo”
IMSR marks Black History Month 2020
The Institute of Metabolism & Systems Research (IMSR) is pleased to invite you to an upcoming panel discussion and audience Q&A to mark Black History Month 2020, organized by IMSR’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion leads. IMSR is a diverse and multinational research institute that carries out research in: Endocrinology Metabolism Maternal & Reproductive Health Quantitative Biomedicine … Continue reading “IMSR marks Black History Month 2020”
Join SMBQ this November for a public digital health debate, interdisciplinary networking & more!
Professor John Terry is the Director of the Centre for Systems Modelling & Quantitative Biomedicine (SMQB) and also IMSR’s research theme lead for this area of work, which aims to transform lives through quantitative biomedical and clinical research. The SMQB are a group of research innovators with backgrounds in mathematics, computer science, physics and biomedicine. … Continue reading “Join SMBQ this November for a public digital health debate, interdisciplinary networking & more!”
DAISy-PCOS Leadership Programme – We want you!
The DAISy-PCOS team at the University of Birmingham are excited to announce an opportunity for women to join us for a new PCOS Leadership Programme supported with public engagement funding from the Wellcome Trust and carried out by our multidisciplinary team at the Institute of Metabolism & Systems Research (IMSR), with the support of specialists … Continue reading “DAISy-PCOS Leadership Programme – We want you!”
PCOS Awareness Month Event (September 26th, 2020)
This September, the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR) is pleased to invite you to a free, public webinar to mark PCOS Awareness Month. PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects at least 1 in 10 women worldwide and commonly causes irregular periods and difficulties trying to conceive. Previous research at the IMSR by Professor Wiebke Arlt … Continue reading “PCOS Awareness Month Event (September 26th, 2020)”
Artist in Residence: Lockdown Update
It seems unbelievable that we are already headed into August. But here we are, already five months into lockdown… When SMQB first launched our Artist-in-Residence programme, we could have never envisioned the world we’d now be living in and to some extent this new reality must itself be shaping the collaborations and the nature of … Continue reading “Artist in Residence: Lockdown Update”