DCN is a clinical department that seeks to integrate high class clinical care with research. We straddle the University of Edinburgh and teaching hospitals (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Western General Hospital) campus and combine patient driven research, large-scale international trials and laboratory research around five main areas; Stroke, Prion disease, Brain Imaging, Neuro-oncology and Regenerative Neurology (focussed on multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease).
DCN is a division within the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences.
Events & Announcements
Good News - Grants Awarded and Nature Genetics paper!
Dr Cathie Sundlow (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and UK Biobank) has been awarded two grants recently. One from UK Biobank to conduct a stroke outcomes adjudication pilot study and the other from NIH for the Edinburgh contribution to a genome wide association study of ischaemic stroke. As if that wasn't enough, she has also has had a paper published in Nature Genetics identifying a new genetic variant associated with ischaemic stroke and demonstrating differences in genetic associations with different subtypes of ischaemic stroke. Congratulations Cathie!
Medal Awarded for Stroke Research
Congratulations to Professor Martin Dennis (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) on being awarded the Bhowmick Medal for 2012 by the Welsh Association of Stroke Physicians in recognition of his "tremendous contribution to Stroke Medicine". Martin will collect his medal in June 2012.
Stephen Makin wins the Charles Warlow Prize
Stephen has just won the Charles Warlow Prize for the best presentation at the 2011 UK Stroke Forum for his platform presentation entitled
"Factors Associated with Negative MRI DWI Scan in Minor Stroke" describing data from the Mild Stroke Study2.
Congratulations Stephen! and well done everyone in the Mild Stroke Study Team!
The full presentation can be viewed here: Factors Associated with Negative MRI DWI Scan in Minor Stroke
VIP visits
There have been two high profile visits in the last two weeks: Alex Salmond, the First Minister, has visited the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, and JK Rowling has buried a time capsule to mark the start of building work on the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.
Read the full story on the First Minister's tour of the EMC and JK Rowling at the Ground-Breaking Ceremony.
Anne Rowling Clinic - Building work has begun
Building work has begun on the new Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic. The clinic will be an addition to the front of Chancellor's Building at Little France and is due to be completed in mid 2012. The clinic will focus on patient-based studies to help find treatments that could slow the progression of Multiple Sclerosis and other progressive, incurable diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. It was established in 2010 following a £10M donation from JK Rowling and is named in memory of Ms Rowling's mother, who died from MS at the age of 45.
The opening of the centre will co-incide with Phase 1 of the relocation of the Division of Clinical Neurosciences to the Chancellors Building..
