January 2020 – Donald J. Davidson shows teachers how to use card game Supercytes to teach pupils about immunology The Supercytes workshop was run in…
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New kind of PhD to give future researchers an edge
A new PhD programme that aims to also teach engagement skills in future medical researchers is looking for its first intake of students. The four-year…
Midlothian Science Festival Schools Programme 2019 workshops
October 2019: Donald and a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research ran ‘Your Amazing Immune System’ and ‘Supercytes’ workshops…
Action Medical Research public talk
26th Sept 2019 Marcliffe Hotel, Aberdeen Donald gave a public talk about his Action Medical Research-funded research project, studying novel approaches to treating Respiratory Syncytial…
MRC Festival of Medical Research 2019 event: Supercytes Teacher Training
June 2019: Donald ran a free, “sold out” interactive workshop at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research, to train teachers in using our…
Action Medical Research funded studies
Research highlighted June 2019: Our group’s new Action Medical Research-funded work is highlighted in the recent Spring/Summer issues of “Touching Lives” and “Re:action“; studying susceptibility…
Bid to beat superbugs boosted by immune defence discovery
Press Release June 2019: The fight against superbugs could be helped by the discovery of a potential therapy based on the body’s natural immune defences.…
Immune discovery set to boost cancer therapies
Press Release May 2019: Cancer therapies that use immune cells to trigger the body to attack tumours could be improved by a molecule that boosts…