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Dr Martha Canfield shares how mentorship and skill-building make the Academy's #Springboard25 funding unique, and how it’s supporting her research to tackle Scotland’s opioid crisis.
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Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Dr Elena Torlai Triglia next to a quote that reads: "This Award provides me with invaluable support for establishing my independent research group, including access to tailored career development opportunities and a renowned mentoring programme."
Can we outsmart the deadliest form of skin cancer? 🧬
#Springboard25 awardee Dr @elett.bsky.social is decoding the DNA mutations behind melanoma to help develop better therapies.
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🆕 | @uofgsii.bsky.social Lecturer In Bacteriology Dr @ariannebabina.bsky.social has been awarded £125,000 #Springboard25 funding from @acmedsci.bsky.social as part of its largest-ever funding initiative for early-career researchers.
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Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Dr Eleanor Raffan next to a quote that reads: "The Springboard funding will accelerate an exciting new project and the career support will help me operate strategically and effectively at a key career stage."
Can dogs help tackle #obesity? 🐶
#Springboard25 awardee Dr Eleanor Raffan is comparing canine and human genetics to find out!
👉 See how Springboard is backing such innovative research: bit.ly/44irB7l
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Huge congratulations to two of our lecturers Dr Sana Hannan @sanahannan.bsky.social and Dr Katerina Gatsiou who have been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard programme @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 (1/4) 🧪
Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Dr Matthew Pontifex next to a quote that reads: "It is an incredible honour for this research to receive support from the Academy of Medical Sciences, I will use this opportunity to progress research in this emerging field."
Why are women more likely to develop Alzheimer’s?
#Springboard25 awardee Dr Matthew Pontifex is exploring how female hormonal changes impact #dementia risk, an overlooked area despite women making up two-thirds of Alzheimer's cases 🧠
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Congratulations to our biomedical sciences researchers Dr @emilyhume.bsky.social and Dr Monika Winter, who are among 62 UK researchers awarded grants to further their innovative work by the @acmedsci.bsky.social Springboard programme.
#Springboard25 #MedicalResearch
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Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Rosie Steege next to a quote that reads: "This award will centre the voices and lived experiences of adolescents who have been forcibly displaced due to the climate crisis, in relation to their sexual and reproductive health and rights."
How is #ClimateChange affecting young people’s health in #Bangladesh?
#Springboard25 awardee Rosie Steege is working directly with displaced adolescents to find out, putting lived experience at the heart of global health research 🌎
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Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Dr Emily Hume next to a quote that reads: "I am delighted to receive Springboard funding, which will help to develop a digital solution to support patients on the waiting list for lung transplant."
Can digital tools help lung transplant patients?
#Springboard25 awardee @emilyhume.bsky.social is testing a new digital approach to support patients during the lengthy wait time, improving quality of life & post-transplant outcomes 🫁
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Extremely thankful to @acmedsci.bsky.social for the opportunity, and very excited to get started on this project at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social !
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The Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard awardee Dr Mattias Malaguti next to a quote that reads: "I am tremendously excited by this opportunity, and I am committed to leveraging this award to create lasting impact in the field."
Can we prevent cancer before it starts? 🔬
Our #Springboard25 grant is supporting @matt-mala.bsky.social's research uncovering how healthy skin cells interact with emerging cancer cells, paving the way for new prevention tools🧬
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I am thrilled to have received the Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social #springboard25! This support will allow us to study the role of epigenetics in fungal infection biology. I can’t wait to do some cool and impactful science @teessideuni.bsky.social
Honoured and very excited to be a recipient of the AMS Springboard Award 2025. This award will support us in unravelling the complex role of glycans in neurological disorders @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🔬🧠 #Springboard25
Huge thanks to @acmedsci.bsky.social for awarding me a Springboard award to build on my groups research on SUMOylation as a therapeutic vulnerability in lung cancer #Springboard25
An image of Academy of Medical Science Springboard awardee Dr Charlotte Pennington next to a quote that reads: "I’m really excited to have received this prestigious award that will enable me to conduct crucial research into the psychological processes that underpin adolescent alcohol consumption."
Congratulations to #Springboard25 awardee @drcpennington.bsky.social 🎉
Her research explores how brain development affects teen drinking, aiming to reduce alcohol harms among young people 🧠
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#TeenHealth #PublicHealth #Psychology
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Really thrilled to have been awarded an @acmedsci.bsky.social Springboard Award! This new PI thing is definitely starting to feel real now!
The #Springboard25 will help me to kickstart some cool work on innate-like T cells in skin and lungs at the @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social! Exciting times ahead!
I feel very honoured and excited to have received the @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 award 🎉 I would like to thank the Academy & reviewers for supporting our research into understanding the biological causes of Alzheimer’s disease. Position announcement soon 🙂 @livuni-ismib.bsky.social
Our newly advertised Research Technician @uofgsii.bsky.social post is supported by this #Springboard25 award! If you're passionate about bacterial evolution & gene regulation, apply by 30th April. A fantastic opportunity for soon-to-be/recent graduates to dive into research! tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse 🏴🔬
Excited to share that I’ve been awarded an @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 award to support our work on how new genes drive bacterial adaptation to changing environments @uofgsii.bsky.social! Grateful for this investment in my new research program—can’t wait to do some cool & impactful science!
Thrilled to share that I've been awarded an @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 grant! This support will allow us to study how #sleep supports #memory processing using advanced #EEG. We'll soon be advertising for a Research Technician to join our team, so keep an eye out for further details! 🧠📈💤
Congratulations to Dr Rosie Steege who has been awarded an @acmedsci Springboard grant for research on climate change, sexual and reproductive health in Bangladesh.
The programme supports early-career researchers to develop solutions that improve health & wellbeing.
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Thrilled to have received the Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences! (my first grant, actually!) @acmedsci.bsky.social #springboard25
We're gonna answer some key questions on the fundamental biology of TB with super-resolution microscopy. 🦠🔬
Image of Springboard awardee Dr Emma Lucas next to a quote that reads: "The award will help me to address a critical knowledge gap on the effects of using common medications around the time of conception, and genuinely provide a springboard for me to establish my lab in this area."
On #WorldHealthDay, we’re spotlighting #Springboard25 awardee, Dr Emma Lucas 🌟
Her research explores whether common painkillers like ibuprofen and aspirin impact fertility and early pregnancy, helping close major gaps in women’s health 💊👶
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#HealthForAll #HopefulFutures
Very grateful to #Springboard25 for this support to push forward our development of methods for spatial profiling of somatic evolution. These ring fenced opportunities for early PIs are hugely helpful to push forward our research at this stage of the lab's development.
I am honored & excited for receiving the @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 award!!! I am grateful to the Academy & reviewers for the trust & support on my lab's ideas & future biomedical research directions!! 🔬🧬 Position announcements will follow very soon! 🎉 @unikent.bsky.social
Thrilled to have been awarded one of the @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 awards to support my work using big datasets to investigate splicing and gene regulatory elements and how variants in them cause disease. I will be recruiting a postdoc soon!
I'm over the moon for receiving an @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 award!
We will use these funds to apply our synthetic neighbour-labelling tools to human skin organoids, to study communication between diseased cells and healthy neighbours.
#EngBio #SynBio #DevBio #SkinResearch #CancerResearch
Big thanks to @acmedsci.bsky.social for the 2 year grant that will fund a programme of work on skeletal muscle ageing. Looking forward to getting stuck into it!
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Professor James Naismith, Vice President (Non-Clinical) of the Academy of Medical Sciences with a quote that reads: "By backing these talented early-career researchers, we’re not only addressing today’s urgent health challenges but also strengthening the UK’s position as a global leader in medical research."
Over the past 10 years, our #Springboard25 programme has invested £44m to support emerging research leaders 💡
Through funding, mentoring and career development, we're proud to support innovators in health and medical science 🚀
As our Vice President (Non-Clinical), @jhnaismith.bsky.social, says:
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📢 We're making our largest ever investment in early-career researchers
Through #Springboard25, we’re investing £7.6m in 62 researchers to drive innovations that improve health and wellbeing 🔬
Congrats to all 2025 awardees! 🎉
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