Posts in "Medical Research"

A new lectureship focused on understanding and tackling neurodegenerative diseases has been established at the University of Aberdeen thanks to a £500,000 donation from one of north-east Scotland’s most important medical research charities.

The lectureship has been made possible thanks to Saving Sight in Grampian (SSIG), which donated half a…

March is Free Wills Month and in the coming weeks, we will be sharing the stories of people who have left a gift in their will to the University, and why they have chosen to do so.

Last year, Dorothy Ritchie visited our research facilities at Foresterhill to hear more…

100 years ago, while working in Toronto, Canada, University of Aberdeen graduate JJR Macleod, along with Dr Frederick Banting, Dr Charles Best and Dr James Collip, discovered insulin - a treatment which transformed…