Topic archive
medicine.
13 articles across the writing and project archives.
A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free!
How joining a stem-cell donor registry provided useful genetic information—and why HLA typing matters for personalised medicine.
Experience as a BAME person working in a hospital during COVID
Reflections on returning to Cambridge clinical training, vaccination and working in hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interview simulator for medicine
A video interview simulator built with a widening-access charity to help medical applicants practise, review and score their answers.
Neurotransmitters: not like filling up a cup
Why the “chemical imbalance” metaphor is misleading, and a clearer way to understand neurotransmitters, synapses and psychiatric drugs.
NHS Bursary: A Complete Guide for Medical Students
A step-by-step guide to the NHS Bursary application for medical students, including evidence, deadlines and practical details.
Engineering platelets for targeted haemostasis
My Cambridge PhD research used stem-cell-derived platelets as a targeted delivery system for a recombinant clotting factor.
The Failure of Complex Systems (and Missing Heritability)
Why complex systems rarely fail for one reason, from missed trains to missing heritability and multifactorial disease.
Type 2 Diabetes: A Tragedy of the Commons?
A systems-level way to think about insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes through the tragedy of the commons.
Arthur Max Barrett: A Cambridge Pathologist
The story of Cambridge pathologist Arthur Max Barrett, the prize named after him and his unexpected connection to Pink Floyd.
MB/PhD Symposium 2019
A report from Cambridge’s 2019 MB/PhD Symposium, covering machine learning, immunotherapy, platelet engineering and infection modelling.
Forecasting demand in A&E
A deep-learning project using two years of minute-level hospital data to forecast emergency-department demand and admissions.
Acoustic fall detection
A privacy-conscious prototype that used on-device deep learning to recognise falls from sound and call for help.
The genetics of primordial dwarfism
Research into how a CENPJ mutation alters cell division and growth, recognised with Cambridge’s Max A. Barrett Prize.