Five dementia researchers at the University of Exeter have pedalled over an epic 350 miles from London to Paris, raising thousands of pounds for Alzheimer’s Society in a gruelling four day challenge.
The team has raised more than £11,000 towards their £12,000 target to boost the Society’s ground-breaking dementia research, and they still hope to achieve their goal. To donate, visit their Justgiving page.
Throughout the journey the group battled fickle weather conditions, from glorious sunshine, torrential rain and driving wind. All five cyclists endured physical struggles,...
An Exeter researcher has just been awarded £362,337 from leading charity Diabetes UK to understand if certain genes can protect people from developing Type 2 diabetes. Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar who works at the University of Exeter Medical School has been awarded Diabetes UK’s R D Lawrence Fellowship, set up in recognition of the life and work of the late Dr R D Lawrence, co-founder of Diabetes UK. It was as a medical student in her native Iran that Dr Yaghootkar realised that diagnosing and treating patients was not enough for her. She decided to become a researcher in genetics in a bid to...
Exeter College is celebrating a record breaking year by celebrating welcoming their 1,000th apprentice.
The 1,000th Apprentice is Jordanna Broom who is a higher engineering apprentice at the University of Exeter. Jordanna enjoyed her initial engineering training and has decided to pursue her career through one of the college’s higher level apprenticeships.
To celebrate this milestone and the ongoing relationship between the college and the university, a memento has been made by the University’s engineering apprentices and presented to the college.
Exeter Chiefs Director of Rugby Rob Baxter has celebrated another high profile achievement – being awarded an honorary degree by the University of Exeter.
Mr Baxter, who helped lead the rugby team to Premiership victory this year, received his doctorate just a day after his son Jack graduated from the University of Exeter with a first-class degree in Law.
Mr Baxter previously played with the team for 14 years, serving 10 of them as the club’s captain. During his playing career he amassed over 300 appearances at the club’s old County Ground home.
The more regularly people report doing word puzzles such as crosswords, the better their brain function in later life, a large-scale and robust online trial has found.
Experts at the University of Exeter Medical School and Kings College London analysed data from more than 17,000 healthy people aged 50 and over, submitted in an online trial. In research presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2017, the team asked participants how frequently they played word puzzles such as crosswords.
The study, one of the largest of its kind, used tests from...
Exeter Chiefs Head Coach Rob Baxter will be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Exeter after the rugby team’s stunning performance this season led them to become national champions.
Mr Baxter oversaw the Exeter Chiefs rise from the championship to winning the English premiership within less than a decade. He was an Exeter Chiefs player for 14 years.
He will join other illustrious figures who have made a contribution to science, journalism, the Army, education and charity work being honoured during degree ceremonies next week. This includes Dr Mireille Gillings...
Playing football can improve bone development in adolescent boys, new research shows.
In a study comparing adolescent footballers to swimmers, cyclists and a control group of boys not involved in regular sport, scientists at the University of Exeter found football led to significantly better bones after one year of training.
Adolescence is the key period for bone development, and poor development at this stage is linked to reduced peak bone mass (the amount of bone mass at the end of the skeletal maturation, around age 30), increased fracture risk and osteoporosis later in...
Two researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School have been recognised as rising stars in diabetes research.
Dr Andrew Wood and Dr Hanieh Yaghootkar have been awarded two of just four €30,000 (£25,500) awards made across Europe, from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V. (EASD). The award, made under the Rising Star Fellowship Programme and supported by global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, is designed to fund selected research projects of promising and innovative young researchers. Winning academics also give a presentation to the EASD Annual Meeting,...
A world-leading expert diabetes expert has been awarded the CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for his work revolutionising diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
Andrew Hattersley, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University and a diabetes consultant at the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, has won a string of international awards for his work in combining genetic diagnosis with clinical treatment to make a real difference for patients with genetic sub types of diabetes across the world. Professor Hattersley and his colleague Professor Sian Ellard set up...
Apprentices from IBM have been named National Finalists in the search for the apprentice team of the year, after being the highest scoring team in the South East.
After four months of hard work by over 650 apprentices from across 75 organisations from the country’s leading apprentice employers, training providers and colleges, the National Finalists of the Brathay Apprentice Challenge were announced at the House of Commons by Godfrey Owen, Chief Executive of organisers Brathay Trust.
The team from across the South East will be joined in the final by teams from Derwent...
