Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage - RUSH

23/07/2025

For anyone with a brain cavernoma, At A Stroke is an engaging, personal, husband's account of his wife's 3+ year journey home after a stroke due to a cavernoma and surgery for it. Great to read about recovery, life after stroke, and support from Cavernoma Alliance UK - CAUK

17/07/2025

Congratulations to Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Professor of clinical neurology at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. Rustam has added another string to his bow as Deputy chair of the Commissioning funding committee of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme.

Learn more about the HTA Programme on their website: https://lnkd.in/e6Sqd2Q7

28/03/2025

Congratulations to Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman on his recent election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. You can read more about this year's new fellows by clicking the link below

The RSE has announced its 2025 cohort of new Fellows, celebrating leading minds from across science, arts, business, and public life.

21/01/2025

2024 was the 10th anniversary of the Arthur Fonville Award. The RUSH team travelled to Amsterdam to mark this occasion. The award ceremony was a very poignant and respectful event celebrating the life of Arthur and the accomplishments of the past winners of the award. Arthur's mother and father have produced this wonderful summary of the meeting. Please take time to read it.

08/01/2025

Happy New Year to you all!
2024 was another great year for the RUSH team!
📰 Our 2024 newsletter is available on the website now. You can also read it on the photos below or alternatively go to our webpage for the newsletter and lots of additonal informaiton about our ongoing research projects:
👉 Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage - RUSH

14/11/2024

Excited to have a potential PhD opportunity as part of the RUSH team in collaboration with colleagues in CAMARADES at the University of Edinburgh and Professor Tom van Agtmael, University of Glasgow. This PhD is part of the prestigious MRC Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme. Please forward to any enthusiastic students keen to learn about stroke (intracerebral haemorrhage), drug repurposing and bioinformatics. We are holding a Q&A via teams on 12th December at 10am. Deadline for applications 13th January 2025.

https://usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-medicine-doctoral-training-programme/systematic-evidence-based-approach-to-identifying

01/10/2024

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19/09/2024

Following on from the earlier post on 24 May, Rustam attended the New Fellows Day at The Academy of Medical Sciences https://acmedsci.ac.uk/ in London to be admitted to the academy. The organisation's mission is to advance biomedical and health research and its translation into benefits for society. The Academy seeks ultimately to advance medical science and improve health by investing in talented researchers, engaging people on health-related issues and providing expert impartial advice. Again many congratulations to Rustam.

31/05/2024

The British Heart Foundation has published an 'ask the experts' series on 'Transient Ischaemic attack (TIA): what is a mini stroke? The article written by Al-Shahi Salman is available to read at the link below..

You may have heard of a mini stroke or 'TIA', but what exactly is it? We speak to an expert to find out.

24/05/2024

Many congratulations to Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, leader of the RUSH research team, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. This year the Academy has elected 58 exceptional biomedical & health scientists to its prestigious Fellowship and Rustam is one of them! After an exciting week at the ESO - European Stroke Organisation where Rustam delivered a talk on the results of the CARE trial, this is a well deserved honour for the research carried out by Rustam and his team. You can read the CARE results published in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474442224000966?via%3Dihub

The team are very proud of the boss!

03/05/2024

Cavernoma Alliance UK - CAUK Annual Conference takes place on Saturday 22 June 2024 from 10 - 4pm. See the flyer for further information. Find out what we learnt from the CARE study from our recent publications in The Lancet Neurology: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00096-6 and also https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102557

23/04/2024

It's taken >25 years of research to reach the completion of the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research)-funded CARE feasibility study and pilot phase trial for
📕 Read the results here: https://lnkd.in/emaU4adY
📽 Watch the plain language video here https://lnkd.in/eECJfvvy
🙏 The Lancet Neurology, Society of British Neurological Surgeons, Cavernoma Alliance UK - CAUK, Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation, Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, the QuinteT group in Bristol, The University of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian, University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School, Emerge Research Edinburgh
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