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The Institute Development Group with the assistance of two operations groups has evaluated a range of strategic alternatives available to the three constituent Schools, Medicine, Dentistry and Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (PGMDE). The scoping process, which included more than 10 meetings with key stakeholder groups over a period of approximately five months, highlighted the […]


Two collaborations from within the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences have jointly won the Medical Breakthrough Award. Cardiff School of Medicine & Myriad Genetics Inc Identification, translation and commercialisation of the first gene for recessive predisposition to bowel cancer (MUTYH): Cardiff University researchers identified a new gene (MUTYH) causing an inherited form of bowel […]


Capital Medical University (CMU), Beijing Nine students are coming to Cardiff University in September to undertake a research project. The students will be primarily based in School of Medicine. If you would like to find out more about the project or would like to be involved, please contact Dr Dianne Watkins (WatkinsSD@cf.ac.uk) or Manjit Bansal […]



Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Congratulations to Prof Alun Davies, one of the world’s  foremost developmental neurobiologist in School of Biosciences for winning Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award : Tumor Necrosis Factor superfamily forward and reverse signalling in neural development (£2,043,742; 2014 – 2019). Professor Alun Davies studies the molecular mechanisms that govern the survival of […]



Professor Mike Owen has been awarded a Knighthood for services to Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Professor Owen is a leading expert in the genetics of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/knighthood-for-genetics-pioneer-13079.html Dr Joy Margaret Woodhouse from the School of Optometry & Vision Sciences has been awarded an OBE for services to People with Disabilities. For over 20 […]