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✅ Want to learn more about Health Data Science? Or hear from leading experts on topics like AI?
🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers!
🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo
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📢 Want to join a community driving scientific, medical and technological innovation?

Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!

🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...

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PhD Applications now open! Join a world-class community training the next generation of genome scientists and clinicians.

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📅 Closes 27 Nov 2025
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Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).

Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.

📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm

Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw

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Calling all future research stars! 🔬
Step into the spotlight with the BTS NHSBT Dragons’ Den Competition!
🧪 Open to:
- Medical & surgical trainees
- Early career allied health researchers
🏆 Successful submissions will be showcased 5th March in Llandudno
📥 Submit here! bit.ly/4mCd9wp

#BTSDragonsDen

We're looking forward to the Big Biology Day at Hills Road Sixth Form on Saturday 11th October - who's coming?

Join us for a Free, In-Person, Open Event highlighting Translational Research in infants, children and young people
🗓️Thurs 20th Nov
📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH
⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm
📊Poster exhibition & refreshments
Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social

📢 Today is the first ever #CancerCachexiaAwarenessDay!

Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes people with cancer to lose weight & muscle even when eating normally. Find out more on the @cancerresearchuk.org ➡️ zurl.co/kxTa3

In Cambridge, patients & families are co-driving childhood cancer research – shaping priorities & ensuring it meets real-world needs. 🙌

Join our PPI network 👉 zurl.co/A4msb or email ctya.ppie@cancer.cam.ac.uk
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth #CCAM25 @crukcamctya.bsky.social

MPhil Theraputic Sciences

Apply now for the #MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences at the University of #Cambridge, starting Oct 2026!

1-year full-time course with a 6-month research placement, combining world-class academic & industry training.

Developed with the Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences.

🔗 bit.ly/3KdJrk9

Beautiful autumn mists this morning

Curious how cancer research turns into new treatments? Reserve your ticket NOW for Experimental Cancer Medicine Demystified for expert talks & patient stories.

📅 Fri 3rd October | 10:00-15:30
📍CRUK Cambridge Institute or online
Register today:
👉 zurl.co/sOHTU (in person)
👉zurl.co/Jfb5y (online)

YouTube video by Dementia Researcher Writing a Lay Summary

Writing a lay summary isn’t about simplifying your research—it’s about making it accessible. Watch Nadine Mirza, Russell Chander & Andrew Cornwall discuss how.

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Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather Job Opening: Communications & Engagement Lead: Future Proofing our Climate & Weather at ARIA in London.

Fascinating job opportunity at ARIA. Leading public engagement for the climate innovation programme aria.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

📣 Researchers from the University of Manchester are looking for young people aged 16-25 to join an advisory group for the VoiceIn study.

Young advisors will input and feedback on the VoiceIn app,an app that makes it easier for people to get involved in health research.

mcpin.org/research-opp...

Training announcement! 📢

Want to learn how you can use patient & public involvement (PPI) in your research in a more inclusive way?

We’re running a course of 3 online PPI training sessions in Nov & Dec 2025.

Don't miss out - find out more & register here 👉 www.mcpin.org/work-with-us/training/

Group Leader – AI in Biology Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

📣 GA4GH 13th Plenary panel spotlight: “European health data sharing”

Learn about how European initiatives are aligning to overcome barriers and enable health data sharing across the continent.

Register for the GA4GH 13th Plenary meeting: buff.ly/k1udEHJ

Picture reads Urology Awareness Month

September marks the beginning of Urology Awareness Month with the theme 'Bladder leakage: Time to Act'
To learn more about the ongoing urology-related research at Cambridge BRC, including how early targeted therapy has positive outcomes in prostate cancer: bit.ly/3UUVWmM
@cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk

Call for papers: Harnessing Patient Knowledge (Oxford Open Immunology)

No one has more motivation to advance clinical discovery than patients, which is why Oxford Open #Immunology is launching a special issue spotlighting original patient-led research.

Submit a paper—or tag a colleague who should!

https://oxford.ly/3F6MWX4

#Immunosky @daltmann.bsky.social

Are you a researcher who wants to develop more inclusive recruitment approaches?

Join our free online drop-in sessions to build skills, connect with communities, and shape mental health research.

Register below 👇

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Me and My Eczema Summer Art Competition by Rapid Eczema Trials.
Produce of piece of art to express what having eczema means to you.
First prize will win £75! Deadline 21 September.
rapideczematrials.org/community/su...
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Join @eastofenglandsde.bsky.social public webinars to look at how de-personalised patient data can be used to support health research, while maintaining privacy and data security.

22nd Sept, 12 pm
30th Oct, 4 pm
26th Nov, 9 am

Tickets free, book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-nhs-...

👉East Anglia Researchers! There is still time to book onto the FREE PPI Training Sessions!
👉 Next session is Avoiding Tokenism - Tue 19 Aug!
👉 Book via bit.ly/Trg4PPI
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Got a minute?
Share your thoughts, questions, or concerns in our #NHSStaffSurvey about how depersonalised #NHSHealthData could be used more effectively in research. It only takes a few minutes, and your perspective really matters.
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This animation from Understanding Patient Data shows how SDEs safely use depersonalised patient data for research—explaining how they work, who can access them, and their benefits, all in BSL.
For East of England SDE info, contact - cuh.eoe.sde@nhs.net.
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👉 ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT to book your spot on our Data Science & Population Health theme in-person 'Software as a Medical Device' workshop on 13 Nov.
👉 Book via email aae35@cam.ac.uk & copy bg339@cam.ac.uk by 25 JULY.
👉 Talks by CogniDox, eQMS & Cambridge Enterprise
👉 Free lunch!
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Are you an NHS staff member in the East of England?
We want to hear from nurses, doctors, and health and care professionals about how NHS patient data is used for research.
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