Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia affect over 45 million people worldwide and cost over £26 billion per year in the UK alone.  Currently, there are no disease modifying treatments, and the …more

The University of Dundee has a number of exciting interdisciplinary PhD studentships available, including the following imaging-related research projects: Development of innovative methods for the provision of routinely collected medical …more

In collaboration with Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems, this project will develop methods, algorithms and theory that realize decision support systems via deep representation learning mechanisms based on both imaging and …more

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