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Could there be connections between having cancer and a reduction in dementia risk? This is something various studies are currently looking into. There is growing interest, from studying patterns of disease in the population, in the potential connection between the development of cancer and a reduced risk of dementia, with several studies exploring this idea.…

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research and Cabot Institute for the Environment recruited a cohort of Climate Change and Health PhD students in 2023, supported by a cross-disciplinary team of academic staff who are experts in their fields. We caught up with the students a year into their projects for an update on how their…

Gram stain training at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital Laboratory. Image credit: Tinashe Mwaturura, co-investigator and CREATE PhD Fellow at The Health Reearch Unit Zimbabwe (THRU-ZIM). After a couple of months in Zimbabwe, David Hettle, one of our Global Health Fellows, reports on how his Fellowship is growing and shares what a great opportunity it is…

The University of Bristol has recently won two awards at the National AI Awards. The field of healthcare is one in which AI shows considerable promise. Learn about AI in Health projects we have recently supported which are advancing the capabilities of AI in healthcare. In September 2024, University of Bristol was crowned ‘AI University…

A team of researchers from the University of Bristol is investigating the causes behind heart and circulation problems in Long COVID. It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on society and health across the globe. Between April 2020 and February 2022, around 4 million individuals had tested positive for Covid-19. Up…

Image: Group of Brazilian and UK researchers in a field day in a traditional Amazonian community (Quilombola) during the workshop led by Dr Penfield and Dr Nobrega, funded by the British Council (July 2024). Other researchers from Bristol in the photo are Dr Jaskiran Kochan, Dr Shirley Famelli, and Dr Rayane Pacheco. Researchers from the…

Image l-r: A young Elizabeth Blackwell; Henrietta Lacks statue outside Royal Fort House, Bristol; A-Book-of-Medical-Discourses, by Rebecca CrumplerUS National Library of Medicine In January 1859, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first ever woman on the British Medical Register. She was born in Bristol on 3 February 1821, and throughout last year we celebrated her bicentenary. Here…

Ola Thomson, previous EBI Research Associate in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, penned an overview on narrative CVs, explaining how they can enable researchers to showcase a broad array of outputs and outcomes from their research beyond published papers. Research & Development People and Culture strategy paper (published July 2021) released by the Department for Business, Energy &…

‘Autism is one of my biggest strengths, and my greatest insecurity.’ In this honest and eye-opening blog we hear from an Autistic student at Bristol about what life is like and how having autism at University affects her. When people hear the word autism, they often think of Sheldon Cooper/Rain Man type characters. I don’t…