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Keele plays leading part in innovative stroke research breakthrough
Keele University stroke specialist Professor Christine Roffe is leading groundbreaking clinical trials into a smart chip that could save lives.
Stroke is the third biggest killer in the UK and the leading cause of disability. Every year there are around 50,000 stroke victims in the UK, and of those around a third will die as a result and another third will be left severely disabled, with only the remaining third making some kind of recovery. Even though this has become a common medical condition the symptoms of a stroke can still be difficult for medical professionals to diagnose.
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Read more about Professor Roffe’ s research at www. keele. ac. uk / stroke-res |
Keele secures part in € 9.5 million food safety research project
Keele University sociologist Dr Lydia Martens is taking a leading part in a prestigious food safety collaboration.
Dr Martens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science and Public Policy and Lead of the Children, Families and Society research cluster in the Centre for Social Policy, will be working on the EU Horizon2020 funded collaborative project, entitled SafeConsumE, which aims to provide effective, science-based and sustainable strategies for food authorities, market actors and the research community to help reduce risk and the health burden from foodborne illness in Europe.
Read the full article at www. keele. ac. uk / fsaft
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Researchers warn scientists of costly impure chemicals
Keele University researchers have published a paper recently warning fellow scientists of impure reagents that could skew results.
The research was carried out by Keele’ s Dr Sharon Owen, Dr Heidi Fuller, Mr Phil Jones and Professor Sally Roberts at the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, part of Keele University’ s Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine, and assisted by scientists in Cardiff and St Andrew’ s Universities.
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The study, published in Bioscience Reports, found that commercial reagents, which were purchased from highly respected companies, were not pure but contained many contaminants which had a huge and potentially misleading effect on the scientists’ work. |
The SEND project
Keele University secured £ 15million of investment for a project that will allow the campus to become the largest single, integrated electricity, gas and heat smart energy network demonstrator in Europe. It will also be the first facility in Europe for at-scale living laboratory research, development and demonstration of new smart energy technologies and services in partnership with business and industry.
The Smart Energy Network Demonstrator( SEND), which is funded by Keele University, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy( BEIS), and the European Regional Development Fund( ERDF) as part of the England 2014 to 2020 European Structural and Investment Funds( ESIF) Growth Programme, builds on Keele University’ s investment in its energy and other utility networks over many years.
Read the full article at www. keele. ac. uk / smart-netd
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Read the full article at www. keele. ac. uk / impchem |