Research

The College of Life Sciences and Medicine has long been known for expanding the frontiers of science teaching, learning and research.

Home to one of the first-established medical schools in Britain, and situated on the largest medical campus in Europe, research within our Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health adopts a bench-to-bedside approach in applying science to improving healthcare. Our biomedical researchers focus on the human body and attempt to understand how the body functions, how it responds to infection and disease, and how these diseases can be prevented and eradicated.

Our world-leading biological and environmental science research within the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciencesfocuses on integrative physiology, ecology and biotic interactions, leading to a cross-disciplinary focus on predicting the biotic impacts of environmental change.

Underpinning our biomedical, biological and environmental research is the Centre for Genome-Enabled Biology and Medicine enabling genomic sciences across campus by providing facilities, including next generation sequencing and bioinformatics, to allow multidisciplinary intellectual communities interested in integrating genomics into their research, teaching and postgraduate training to flourish.

A strong public outreach programme is supported by excellent resources such as the Natural History Centre, Zoology Museum and Cruickshank Botanic Garden.

Within the field of psychology, our researchers use behavioural and neuroimaging techniques to better understand the factors involved in social interactions and decision making, explore the relationship between perception and the physical environment among populations of both clinical and healthy individuals, and explore the processes of attention, language and memory.