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ACE bring 'Lime or Brine' to University's Founder's Week Discovery Day event
Once again a team from the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) asked the public to take part in the clinical trial ‘Lime or Brine’ during the University’s Founder’s Week Discovery Day event Founders' Week: Discovery Day | Events | The University of Aberdeen. To set the scene: It is 1747 on...
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Staff News - February 2026
Pina Sorbara has joined ACE as a Trial Manager and Alyson MacNeil will also join us this month as a Trial Manager. Welcome to ACE, Pina and Alyson - we're sure you'll both be very happy and successful here!
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Reflections
Following the horrific attack at Brown University in December 2025 our colleague Kristin, who joined us from Brown, shared her incredibly moving reflections with us at an all-staff meeting. With Kristin's permission we have shared those reflections on our Blog which you can read here.
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Staff News - January 2026
We welcome a few new members of staff to our trials team this month. Elspeth McDonald, Sreedevi (Sree) Poovathumkadavil and Iwona Kazmierska all joined us as Data Coordinators. Elspeth, Sree and Iwona are all based on the third floor. Welcome to ACE, ladies – we’re sure you will fit...
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University of Aberdeen helps to make cancer screening more accessible to 'under-served' groups
New research from the University of Aberdeen and the Grampian Regional Equality Council (GREC) has outlined ways to make cancer screening services more accessible to people who may be 'under-served' by the healthcare system.
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IAHS Seminar: Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Collaborating with Aberdeen City Council
Thanks so much to Bea Dawkins and Fionnuala Cousins of the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Aberdeen (HDRC Aberdeen) and everyone who attended the IAHS seminar today. It was really great and generated a lot of discussion. Bea and Fionnuala’s presentation was entitled: “Bridging the Gap: A How-to Guide for Academics looking...
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Adrian Grant Lecture 2025
Professor Adrian Grant was the HSRU Director from 1994 to 2007 and an advocate and visionary within evidence-based health services research. During his 13 years’ tenure, the unit trebled in size, carrying out studies in areas such as incontinence, hernia repair, hip replacement and the role of vitamin D in...
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University team part of clinical trial to tackle street benzodiazepine use and drug-related deaths
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen are part of a major new clinical trial aimed at reducing the use of street-sourced benzodiazepines among people receiving treatment for opioid dependency.
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New project to improve policy decisions with better, AI enhanced evidence synthesis methods
A new UK-wide research effort is building better ways to turn research into action. The ESRC funded project, Transforming Global Evidence, led by Queen’s University, Belfast, will help governments, businesses, and communities use the latest science to make faster, smarter policy decisions, including those that will support achievement of the...
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ACE's 'Lime or Brine' trial - Take 2
As part of the UoA’s Explorathon Discovery Day https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/22568/, the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) public engagement group welcomed visitors to the free family-friendly event to discover more about about clinical trials. After the success of the Tall Ships Races Aberdeen 2025, the ACE crew took the ‘Lime or Brine’ trial...