UoA Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

🩺🚢 Swapping scrubs for sails, Locum Emergency Medicine Consultant (and current PhD student!) Dr Leia Kane will be joining a team of healthcare professionals to provide on-site medical services during @tallshipsabdn later this week: abdn.io/1y0

The Rowett Institute's hemp flapjacks went down a treat at the Royal Highland Show last month - check out the recipe below ⬇️

💉 Before insulin, diabetes was a death sentence. Did you know Aberdeen’s ‘father of diabetes’ life was saved thanks to another @aberdeenuni graduate who helped discover insulin? Read the fully story ➡️ abdn.io/1zr

A study conducted by the University of Aberdeen, funded by @CHSScotland and published in Cerebrovascular Diseases, has found that people who have a stroke are more likely to die within a year if they live in more deprived areas: abdn.io/1z7

🎓🦷 Congratulations to our recent Institute of Dentistry graduates from our MSc in Special Care Dentistry, DipHE in Dental Technology and BDS programmes. An extra shoutout to our BDS prize winners Abbie, Jennifer, Alkistis and Hannah 👏 Read more: abdn.io/1yY

🎓 Recent medic graduate Clara attended the @BritishPainSoc’s 58th Annual Scientific Meeting where she presented a poster of her project titled 'Discharge Analgesia Following Elective Surgery: The Importance of Patient Factors'. 📚 Read Clara's blog here: abdn.io/1yK

🍴🌱 Do you know how many different types of plant and animal species you eat a week? Maybe 5? Well, research led by Professor Baukje de Roos at @rowett_abdn has revealed that the average brit eats about 49 different species every week! Read more: abdn.io/1yt

New research from @aberdeenuni, @dukenus and @unito shows Covid-19 had a greater impact on women’s health than men’s. Women saw bigger declines in healthy habits and sharper rises in mental distress. 🔗 Full story: abdn.io/1ym

🔬🌟@aberdeenuni is teaming up with @QUBelfast in a study that has the potential to help identify cancer up to two years earlier than the formal cancer diagnosis! Find out more here ➡️ abdn.io/1y9

It’s the final countdown to #TallShipsAberdeen! We can’t wait for the fun to get underway on Saturday – from sea monsters to marine medicine, make sure you are on board for some of the unique University activities taking place across the festival. abdn.io/1xT #TSR2025

🌿 A new study by @aberdeenuni finds NHS outdoor spaces in Scotland save £82M/year in health benefits. The survey of 2,449 adults shows people spend 87M hours annually enjoying these green spaces; boosting wellbeing and easing pressure on NHS services: abdn.io/1xD

🔬 Ever wondered what it’s like studying in the Science Teaching Hub? Our students have a lot to say about studying in the hub’s industry-standard teaching labs, including its modern environment, cutting-edge equipment and high-standard facilities: abdn.io/1xw

🌟 Congratulations to @aberdeenuni students Dr Soham Mitra, Nikhil Venugopal, Ahmad Azzam, Aryan Batheja and Liliyana Kalinova for winning this year’s Lightbulb Ideas Competition with their collaborative CAnswer Punch Biopsy idea! Find out more ➡️ abdn.io/1xm

🎥👩‍🔬 A day in the life of an @aberdeenuni academic! Our own Dr Donna MacCallum shares how teaching, mentoring and student support are at the heart of her role; beyond research. 💬👩‍🏫 Watch here 👉 abdn.io/1xe

🌱 Want to eat less meat? Join the LESS Meat Study! Researchers from @rowett_abdn are looking for adults in Scotland who eat meat 6–7 days a week and are up for 3 meat-free days/week for 8 weeks, to help shape future health and climate policies 🌍: abdn.io/1wO

🧠 A breakthrough in brain tumour imaging in Aberdeen! Using a £350,000 Scottish Government grant, @aberdeenuni and @NHSGrampian will use Aberdeen-designed, Field Cycling Imaging (FCI) to generate never-before seen images of glioblastoma brain tumours: abdn.io/1wF

🎉 Congrats to Professor Derek Scott for winning @ThePhySoc's Otto Hutter Teaching Prize, the UK’s top award in physiology education! 🏆👏 Prof Scott will deliver his lecture next year as part of the Physiological Society’s 150th anniversary celebrations: abdn.io/1wy

🔬 Groundbreaking discovery - researchers from the University of Aberdeen, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a group of international experts have identified a previously unknown pathway specific to chronic pain: abdn.io/1wi

🎓 Congrats to Lorena Cornejo Gonzalez who graduates this week. As a doctor, Lorena was excited to further her learning and start her online course in Clinical Nutrition - but during her studies, she became the patient as was diagnosed with breast cancer: abdn.io/1w7

🎓 Graduation Week is here! We're thrilled to celebrate the incredible achievements of our School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition students. Our graduation ceremonies kick off today from 11am (UK time) and you can watch the live stream here: abdn.io/1vY