Research

Human health is the focus of research at the IMS, beginning with analysis of the essential structure of the cell and the molecules that make it up. The origin of almost all disease lies at this core level – due to defects in genes, the proteins they encode or the other macromolecular bases of the cell. From this fundamental standpoint clinical research can advance to find the cure.

All our research is in one of six Research Programmes which are interlinked and work together to facilitate inter-disciplinary research:

• Musculoskeletal
• Cell Developmental and Cancer Biology
• Immunity and Disease
• Microbiology
• Translational Neuroscience
• Cardiovascular

Overarching these Programmes are our Integrative Centres that offer the scientific approaches and techniques that can be applied to the research carried out within all Research Programmes:

• Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre
• Centre for Genoma Enabled Biology and Medicine
• Kosterlitz Centre for Therpautics
• Systems Biology
• Facilities Centre

Several projects are highlighted as "flagship awards". These are multi-million pound projects that are part of the national or international collaborative networks of the highest quality research and include: Wellcome Centre for Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology and STRIFE (Advanced ERC Grant).