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North Staffs Scientists Seek Cure for ‘Silent Killer’ Heart Defect Affecting 620,000 Brits

April 20, 2018 / NSCC / Research

North Staffordshire researchers have been awarded £20,000 to help cure a heart defect that causes thousands of sudden deaths each year. The experts hope to understand and control arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) – a condition that affects around 620,000 people in the UK and causes up to five per cent of young adult deaths. […]

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NSMI-funded scientists seek genetic treatments to fight frailty in older people

April 6, 2018 / NSCC / Grants, Research

North Staffs researchers have won a £19,985 grant to investigate whether gene therapy can stop older people becoming frail. The group, led by Dr Adam Sharples, hopes to pave the way for new treatments that will reduce falls and weakness in the elderly by switching off the genes that cause muscle wasting. They will study […]

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NSMI Charity’s £58,000 cash boost for local medical research

March 2, 2018 / NSCC / Grants

Charity the North Staffordshire Medical Institute has announced a £58,000 cash injection for three “outstanding” local research projects. The money will support new studies based at Keele University and the University Hospital of the North Midlands (UHNM), designed to improve treatments for cancer, heart disease and muscle wasting in the elderly. A panel of experts […]

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Institute set to announce research grant winners

February 18, 2018 / NSCC / Grants, Medical Awards

Researchers across the region will find out this week if their projects will be funded by the North Staffordshire Medical Institute. A committee of experts has been sifting through applications for the charity’s annual research grants and is set to announce its decisions following a meeting on Monday, February 19th. It will award sums of […]

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Institute Reaches Fundraising Target for Community Defibrillator

January 26, 2018 / NSCC / Events

NORTH Staffordshire Medical Institute is thrilled to announce it has reached its fundraising target of £1,999 for a community defibrillator. The lifesaving machine, supplied by Stone-based charity AED Donate, will be mounted on an outside wall of the Institute’s premises in Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent, for members of the public to use in an emergency. It […]

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NSMI conference manager is fired up for fundraising challenge

January 19, 2018 / NSCC / Uncategorized

STOKIE superhero Spencer Smith will don his fire kit for the challenge of a lifetime in 2018. The conference manager at the North Staffs Medical Institute, who also works as a retained firefighter, is set to run an incredible marathon and a half in his full gear to raise money for four charities. But even […]

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In their own words: NSMI-funded scientists on their groundbreaking work

December 15, 2017 / NSCC / Research

North Staffordshire Researchers undertake innovative brain injury study involving surgeons and scientists In a new study started in 2017, a North Staffordshire research team has succeeded in keeping adult human brain tissue alive in a dish outside of the body, using samples of tissue donated by living patients undergoing surgery for a brain condition called […]

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North Staffordshire scientists invent new home test for diabetics

December 8, 2017 / NSCC / Research

A North Staffordshire research team hopes to save patients time and the NHS millions with a new home testing kit for diabetics. The scientists, led by Clinical Biochemist Dr Chris Duff, want to end the need for Britain’s four million patients with diabetes to visit a clinic for routine haemoglobin testing every four months. Their […]

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Keele student showcase highlights the future of medical research

December 1, 2017 / NSCC / Events, Grants, Research

Student doctors had the chance to present their research to leading academics in a showcase event at Keele University. The ASPIRE Research Showcase – supported by the North Staffordshire Medical Institute and led by Professor Divya Chari – is designed to give the medical researchers of the future the chance to show off their ideas […]

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Sunshine vitamin D holds the key to beat childhood asthma, North Staffs scientists claim

November 24, 2017 / NSCC / Research

A North Staffordshire research team hopes to prove spending time in the sunshine is the key to improving childhood asthma. The experts, led by consultant paediatrician Dr Will Carroll, believe many asthma attacks in children can be linked to a deficiency in vitamin D – a substance produced by the body when it is exposed […]

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