The AgorIP Project, which has helped the economy and innovation in West Wales to prosper over the last four years, has been extended to benefit all of Wales, with a total investment of more than £20m. AgorIP brings academics, clinicians and businesses together to pioneer research into cutting edge technologies and drive commercial success with … Continue reading Investment of £20m extends AgorIP project to 2023

The LAUGH project are delighted to announce they are almost there with their aim to get HUG manufactured and commercially available. HUG by LAUGH, which looks like a soft toy on the outside, is a sensory device designed to bring pleasure and comfort to people living with dementia. It is designed to be cuddled and … Continue reading Crowdfunding campaign for sensory device designed for people with dementia

Cardiff University’s School of Medicine and Systems Immunity Research Institute are part of a UK wide effort to identify what makes a good or bad immune response to Covid-19. The UK Covid-19 Immunology Consortium will also look at how factors like age can influence the immune response to coronavirus. Evidence from the pandemic has shown … Continue reading Welsh scientists helping to understand how the immune system responds during coronavirus

Children in Wales have some of the lowest levels of wellbeing among children across thirty five countries, a team of Cardiff University researchers has found. The university reports the team, from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), surveyed over two thousand six hundred children from across Wales about their own … Continue reading International study reveals low levels of wellbeing among children in Wales

Inbreeding can reduce cooperation in banded mongooses, according to a recent study. Swansea University reports its researchers, along with colleagues from the University of Bielefeld and University of Exeter, studied inbreeding and cooperative care in banded mongooses, an African mammal which lives in colonies with a complex social structure. In the Thirties it was proposed … Continue reading Inbreeding reduces cooperation in mongooses

A revolutionary new way to give vaccines through microneedle skin patches is being tested at Swansea University, thanks to £200,000 of EU funding announced by the Welsh Government. The coronavirus pandemic is giving extra urgency to the search for vaccines and new ways of delivering them. This important research is being conducted by Innoture, a … Continue reading Microneedle skin patches to administer vaccines

The University of South Wales has been awarded £32,420 from The Health Foundation to investigate mental health services in the community. Working in collaboration with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and the NHS Wales Modelling Collaborative, the university says the five month project will examine the different pathways experienced by patients in mental health … Continue reading Research to look at improving patient experience in mental health service provision

SMART Cymru is supporting Haemair Ltd to develop a prototype blood oxygenation device for normothermic perfusion of transplant organs. The average time a patient waits on a kidney transplant waiting list in the UK is typically thirty months. In the US it is over four years. These figures are very likely to increase substantially in … Continue reading Haemair to develop a prototype blood oxygenation device

Scientists have uncovered new insights into the origins of Parkinson’s disease. The team, from the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University and the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre at the University of Oxford, studied the genes of more than six thousand cells from a region deep in the middle of the brain called the substantia … Continue reading Genetic study points to cells responsible for Parkinson’s disease

Researchers at Cardiff University have been awarded £155,000 from the Brain Tumour Charity to develop a standardised way of recording patient reported outcomes for brain tumour trials. Brain cancer studies traditionally focus on tumour size and maintaining patient survival. But there is growing recognition that studies need to better consider information about outcomes such as … Continue reading Cardiff University awarded £155k to improve brain cancer treatment