2024 Sedgwick Studentships

Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Philosophical Society are requesting applications for a PhD studentship.

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Image:Department of Plant Sciences help re-create a 10th Century incense recipe

24 September
2024

Department of Plant Sciences help re-create a 10th Century incense recipe

CPS Council member Professor John Carr helps to re-create a 10th Century recipe for incense from the collection of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.


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12 September
2024

Sign-up for the next Research Café on Sustainability

CPS Vice-President Dr. Claire Barlow to give keynote address at the next Research Café on Sustainability


Image:Down House Visit

11 June
2024

Down House Visit

CPS members visit Down House, home to Charles Darwin where he wrote On the Origin of Species.

Image:Human Anatomy Centre Visit

30 May
2024

Human Anatomy Centre Visit

Society members visit the Human Anatomy Centre at the University of Cambridge

Image:Gaia: Mapping the Stars

03 April
2024

Gaia: Mapping the Stars

Dr Giorgia Busso talks about her work on the Gaia Mission at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Image:Upcoming Research Café event on Climate Change

01 April
2024

Event

Upcoming Research Café event on Climate Change

The Research Cafe at West Hub is holding an event on Climate Change on Wenesday, 24th April 2024 with keynote by Professor Lord Martin Rees

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Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

Professor Ewan St. John Smith - A V Hill Lecture

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre Michaelmas Term

The sensation of pain is one which nearly everyone is familiar with, usually being considered an unpleasant experience. Wouldn’t a life without pain be better? Drawing on human genetics and the wider animal kingdom, we shall see that there are in fact benefits to pain, or rather nociception, the neural process encoding noxious stimuli. Pain is not however static. For example, following an accident, the injured part of the body becomes more sensitive, a phenomenon that usually resolves as the injury heals. Understanding the molecular processes by which pain functions and how the sensitivity in the system changes under different conditions is important for the development of novel therapeutics to treat the chronic pain, such as that associated with osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, endometriosis, and a wealth of other conditions. Looking to potential new therapeutic avenues, we will discuss what can be learned from studying human genetics and extremophile organisms, such as the naked mole-rat, as well what the future holds regard gene- and cell-based therapy.

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Signals from the beginning of the universe

Professor Jo Dunkley OBE

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre Michaelmas Term

Signals from the beginning of the universe

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