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The MS Society in the U.K. is hoping to raise £3.7 million ($5.2 million) to fund research aimed at developing new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS).
The funds will support research at the Society’s Centers of Excellence in Edinburgh and Cambridge over five years.
“Our top priority is finding treatments that slow or stop MS for everyone,” Emma Gray, PhD, assistant director of research at the MS Society, said in a press release. “The work happening in Cambridge and Edinburgh is inventive, innovative and incredibly exciting, and will be vital to help us reach our goal.”
MS is caused by immune cells attacking the body’s own myelin, a fatty insulation that covers the long branches, called axons, that extend from nerve cells. When myelin is destroyed a process called demyelination the connections between neurons become defective and MS symptoms arise.
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Since October 2018 I am a Chancellor s Fellow in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, as part of the Data Driven Innovation initiative. I am based in the Scottish Mircroelectronics Center where I am part of the Soft Systems Group. There I conduct research on soft-bodied underwater vehicle design and propulsion, soft manipulator machine-learning control, model-predictive control of unmanned underwater vehicles and shape-changing vibrational systems. I am also part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
I hold a Laurea Degree (MSc equivalent) in Marine Science & Technology from the University of Pisa with a thesis on coastal meteorology numerical weather prediction undertaken at the Laboratory for Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (LAMMA) in Florence. I was later awarded a Marie-Curie Early Stage Training (EST) Fellowship to do a PhD in Computatio
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When a trio of siblings took over a KFC in Brooklyn Park in 2018, they didn t know they d become fast-food warriors three years later.
This spring, the team behind Mi-Sant Bahn Mi Co. will make the leap to a second locale in Roseville, this time in a remade former Bakers Square.
They signed the paperwork on the place a month before COVID hit, but had an out when it was clear the pandemic would greatly impact the restaurant industry. A developer offered to take the new site off their hands, with the caveat that they d be putting in two fast-food restaurants in its place.
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Media release: Digital service launched for homeless people in Edinburgh and the wider community
A DIGITAL service to add to the support available for people in Edinburgh who are homeless has been developed by researchers and community partners, including leading Scottish homelessness charity, Simon Community Scotland.
The website and an accompanying app – called Street Support Edinburgh – provides advice, support and resources for homeless and vulnerable people, plus the wider Edinburgh community who want to help and emergency services personnel.
Street Support Edinburgh has been developed as part of a project by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Homeless Inclusion and Health (CHIH) and the Manchester-based Street Support Network.