Many congratulations to Edinburgh Imaging’s CT team and the Scot-Heart study team, winners of Imaging Team of the Year at The BMJ Awards 2017! The award was made in connection …more

Courtesy of Prof Keith Muir, this image is the first scan from the first 7T clinical MRI scanner in Scotland: the new 7T Siemens Terra system at the recently opened …more

The laboratory of Edwin M. Robertson is dedicated to understanding the offline brain. Much of the work will focus upon understanding how newly formed memories for skills, actions and events …more

Former SINAPSE student Dr David Dickie, now a Clinical Research Specialist at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, has been awarded a three-year Stroke Association postdoctoral fellowship grant worth over £170K …more

The University of Edinburgh has been announced as one of six centres selected to form the UK Dementias Research Institute (UK DRI), a £250M initiative dedicated to addressing the challenge …more

A recent article in The Scotsman reports on a mobile EEG study at the University of Stirling, led by SINAPSE researchers, which will record brain activity from dancers performing the …more

We are delighted to announce that the office of SINAPSE Director has been taken up by Prof Alison Murray as of 1st April 2017. Prof Murray is the Roland Sutton …more

Director of SINAPSE Thank you so much for your support over the past 7 years. I’m fortunate that the opportunity to take over from Joanna Wardlaw as Director of SINAPSE …more

Courtesy of Anu Chandra, this micro-ultrasound image shows in vivo sciatic nerve of a pig. Fascicles can be seen as fine honeycomb patterns which are poorly echogenic round areas surrounded …more

Among the state-of-the-art medical imaging facilities recently opened at SINAPSE centres is the MR PET system at Edinburgh Imaging Facility QMRI, which is now being put to its first use …more

The EASTBIO (East of Scotland BioScience) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the BBSRC, offers an excellent programme of collaborative training for PhD students within the Biosciences.  The programme currently includes …more

A guest blog for the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) describes the role that SINAPSE plays in maintaining a shared national environment for imaging research, knowledge exchange and education in Scotland. …more

2016 was an eventful year for the Scottish imaging research community, which saw the procurement of state-of-the-art imaging facilities including Scotland’s first MR-PET system and Scotland’s first 7 Tesla (7T) …more

For details of this project (employing Palladium catalysis for the synthesis of new PET tracers) at VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, go to https://www.werkenbijvumc.nl/vacatures/phd-student-new-directions-to-radiotracers-for-pet-via-pd-catalysis/ The deadline for application is 29 …more

The University of Stirling wishes to appoint three Psychologists within the Faculty of Natural Sciences: 2 x Lecturers in Real World Cognition Cognitive Neuroscience researchers with experience investigating real world …more