2010 News archive
Medway academics win research award
November 2010
Drs Bernhard Gibbs and Vadim Suymbayev were awarded over £48,000 from Asthma UK to conduct research into asthma.
World Diabetes Day at Medway
November 2010
To mark World Diabetes Day, Dr. Buge Apampa, Vikesh Kakad, Nalwenga Mutambo, and other fellow colleagues at Medway School of Pharmacy, developed and delivered an awareness campaign for local public, staff and students at Medway Universities on Wednesday 17 November.
Medway School of Pharmacy research uses Diamond Light Source
September 2010
The Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK is a government funded synchrotron beam which was opened to users in January 2007. Medway School of Pharmacy lecturer Dr Alison Edwards and her PhD student Emiliana De Santis having been using the light source for their research, and recently won an award for a poster presentation at the first synchrotron user meeting.
Medway student elected to be the student exchange officer (SEO)
September 2010
Vikesh Kakad was elected to be the student exchange officer (SEO) for the association and the contact person for the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (IPSF).
Medway School of Pharmacy takes it International
September 2010
With the help of the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association and the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation, Medway School of Pharmacy student, Vikesh Kakad was able to participate in the student exchange programme in Boston, Massachusetts.
Medway School of Pharmacy salutes its postgraduates
August 2010
Medway School of Pharmacy is celebrating another 'first' after six of its students collected the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice.
Senior lecturer at Medway awarded Professorship from German University
July 2010
Dr Bernhard Gibbs has been awarded the title of “Außerplanmäßiger Professor” in the field of Experimental Allergology from the University of Lübeck.
Professor Alistair Mathie gives the Faculty of Science's inaugural lecture
May 2010
This term's Faculty of Sciences Inaugural Lecture will be given by Prof. Alistair Mathie, Professor of Cell Biology and Pharmacology.
Senior lecturer at Medway awarded funding for research into peanut allergies
April 2010
Dr Bernhard Gibbs was awarded £20,100 for studies into “Diagnostic markers of clinical allergy versus sensitisation to peanut” as part of an MRC clinical PhD fellowship award with colleagues at King's College London.
Pharmacy lecturer's mission to improve cancer treatments
April 2010
Medway School of Pharmacy lecturer Dr Nathalie Lavignac has received a grant to improve drug targeting in cancer patients.
60th annual ISOP-BSBP joint meeting to be held at University of Kent, Canterbury campus
March 2010
The 60th annual meeting of the International Society of Protistologists will be held jointly with the British Society of Protist Biology at the University of Kent Canterbury campus.
