Insigneo Institute

💻 Are you an early-career researcher with an interest in health data?
Apply for Health Research from Home’s hackathon led by our experienced instructors.

📅 13 – 15 May, 2026 | 📍 The University of Manchester | 🧷 Apply now: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

#healthresearch #healthdata

Building a community focused on women’s HealthTech The Women’s HealthTech Innovation Network provides valuable support for those undertaking research and innovation that benefit women.

Have you heard about the Women’s HealthTech Innovation Network in South Yorkshire? It's grown to a thriving ecosystem of 127 members from 38 different organisations, supported by the INSIGNEO Institute and NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Long Term Conditions. Learn more:

Calling all researchers and digital research technical professionals in N8 universities! Don't forget to get your project ideas in for our summer internship scheme before the deadline on Friday 6 March.

Find out more: n8cir.org.uk/internships/...

How can voxels, meshes, and point clouds shape smarter AI in medicine?
Find out at the next #SanoSeminar by Marek Wodziński (Sano & AGH).
💻 Free online: sano.science/seminars/abs...
#AI #MedicalImaging #GeometricDeepLearning

🧠 How can AI help predict complex degenerative diseases even with limited data? 🗓️ Join us on Mon, 9 Feb | 14:00 CET – Sano Seminar with Luca Gherardini on explainable, collaborative models for healthcare. 🔗 sano.science/seminars/towards-collaborative-computational-models
#SanoScience #AIinHealthcare

The Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat takes place from 23rd to 27th March in Manchester. This is a week-long residential event connecting digital research infrastructure professionals, researchers, and representatives from industry and funding bodies from across the UK. Hosted by N8 CIR in partnership with UKRI.

Don't delay - apply today!

We've a few spaces remaining for our Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat in partnership with @ukri.org

Open to all digital research technical professionals, as well as those working in academia, funding bodies, and industry.

Apply at: n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

Congratulations to the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon's winning team! 🏆

Congratulations to all the teams who took part. It's incredible to see what you achieved in this short space of time 👏

A huge thank you to the organisers for their hard work setting up the challenges & supporting participants 🙌

The Insigneo/Sano Modelathon kicked off in Sheffield & Kraków💡 Opening talks from Prof. Malawski, Prof. Nowiński, Dr Narata, Dr Marzo. Teams now dive into multiscale (0D,1D,3D) challenges for better stroke management 🧠@sheffielduni.bsky.social @edrmedeso.bsky.social
#InsigneoSanoModelathon #AGH

It's day 1 of the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon today. We've been at The Diamond Building at The University of Sheffield for the symposium, where participants from Sheffield and Krakow have listene... It's day 1 of the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon today. We've been at The Diamond Building at The University of Sheffield for the symposium, where participants from Sheffield and Krakow have listened to tal...

It's day 1 of the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon today. We've been at The Diamond Building @sheffielduni.bsky.social for the symposium, where participants from Sheffield and Krakow have listened to talks in preparation for the challenges ahead.

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@sanoscience.bsky.social

The N8 CIR Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat takes place from 23 to 27 March 2026 in Manchester. It is a week-long residential event connecting digital research infrastructure professionals, researchers, and representatives from industry and funding bodies from across the UK. This image features the logos for N8 CIR and UKRI and a view of Manchester city centre at sunset.

Think fast! Places are limited for the @n8cir.bsky.social Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2026 supported by @ukri.org , taking place in Manchester from 23-27 March.

Register your interest ASAP, and volunteer if you can!

n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

Insigneo/Sano Modelathon: Computational modelling to improve management of ischaemic stroke | Enrico Dall'Ara Setting up the last details for the Modelathon that will begin tomorrow! Looking forward to welcoming the local and internatonal speakers and the participants in Sheffield and Krakow! It will be a 4...

We are very excited to be hosting the Sheffield half of our Insigneo/Sano Modelathon, which kicks off tomorrow! This year, our teams in Sheffield and Krakow will be working on challenges that focus on the role of multiscale modelling (0D, 1D, 3D) in improving the management of ischaemic stroke.

Last chance to apply for a PhD Position in our lab on #keratins in #celldivision

Applications close on 7/1/26

Excited to be a speaker at Dynamic Cell VI. Always a great meeting

❄️ The December Insigneo Newsletter is out now! ❄️

createsend.com/t/t-D38489A4...

Nice interview with @metastra.bsky.social's Samuele Gould!

BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: The role of keratin networks in cell division in tissues under tension at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: The role of keratin networks in cell division in tissues under tension at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 PhD opportunity: fully-funded BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience project available @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary project on keratins in cell division combines cell biology, biophysics and in vivo Zebrafish imaging.

👇Apply by 7th Jan

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⏰ Deadline in two weeks! ⏰

Work at the interface of biology + computation to build a virtual human embryo to predict developmental success and failure.

Happy to answer questions!

We are very happy to share our new PrePrint: Myosin VI orchestrates estrogen-driven gene expression in breast
cancer cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We characterise how Myosin VI is a key regulator of the Estrogen Receptor. Perturbation of Myosin VI impedes ER functionality.

Really exciting to be here for the launch of the Women's HealthTech Innovation Network today at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. We're very proud to co-host this event with Devices for Dignity @nihr.bsky.social HealthTech Research Centre in long term conditions.

@fohsheffield.bsky.social @sth.nhs.uk

Are you a researcher with an interest in human-focused biomedical technologies? Register now to join our Science+ meeting in London on 3-4 February 2026. Apply to present your poster at the meeting now: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/02/life-sciences/

📢 Job opportunity: Research Associate in Experimental Bone Mechanics (closing date: 23 November 2025).

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with Insigneo members Vee San Cheong and @enrico-dallara.bsky.social at the University of Sheffield.

sheffield.ac.uk/insigneo/vac...

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer

👇Apply by 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please repost - Multiple PhDs available

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Join the Women’s Healthtech Innovation Network and register for the launch event Please use this form to join the Women's Healthtech Innovation Network and to register for the launch event. Network Launch: 09:30 - 15:30, Thursday, 13th November in Mappin Hall, Sir Frederick Mapp...

Join us for the launch of our new Women's HealthTech Innovation Network! Supported by Insigneo and NIHR Devices for Dignity the network will bring together those researching or working in women's healthtech. Join us Thursday 13 November from 9.30am - register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1DKQ...

Great to see @greg-wells.bsky.social and @ljtl.bsky.social on behalf of the Sheffield ex vivo group. Well done!

The September Insigneo newsletter is out now: createsend.com/t/t-440C1E98...

Investigating mechanisms of breast cancer cell growth and spread Dr Elena Rainero is investigating how breast cancer cells use alternative energy sources to grow and spread, and the role of protein called a2b1 integrin in this.

#NPAW2025 #PostdocAppreciationWeek Eric is a @breastcancernow.bsky.social funded postdoc, investigating the mechanisms of breast cancer cell growth and spread.

You can read more about this here 👇:

breastcancernow.org/our-research...

@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

I am advertising for a physicist to work with me at the University of Sheffield.

7T preclinical work and 3T human work in Sheffield
+ opportunities to work with the 9.4T at CABI, UCL

If you are excited about brain perfusion and gas exchange please apply

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

New paper: SimMLM: A Simple Framework for Multi-modal Learning with #MissingModality, to be presented at @iccv.bsky.social 2025.
✅ Tested on BraTS 2018, UPMC Food-101, avMNIST
✅ Robust to missing inputs at Test time
✅ Better uncertainty & interpretability
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19264

Work done by my PhD student: Sijie Li, co-supervised with Prof. Jungong Han. @shefcmi.bsky.social