School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition

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• Aberdeen research and policy engagement contributes to introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol in Scotland

  Anne Ludbrook (Coordinator)

  Impact: Economic and/or Commercial, Policy, Health and Wellbeing, Societal

• Aberdeen research prompts change in dental policy benefiting thousands of Scottish children

  Craig Ramsay (Coordinator), Jeremy M Grimshaw (Coordinator), Graeme MacLennan (Coordinator), Jan Clarkson (Coordinator), Nigel B. Pitts (Coordinator), Ruth Thomas (Coordinator), Elizabeth A Shirran (Coordinator), Marion Campbell (Coordinator) & Jill Ann Mollison (Coordinator)

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• Aberdeen research transforms national policy on the use of robots in prostate surgery

  Craig Ramsay (Coordinator) & Clare Robertson (Participant)

  Impact: Policy, Health and Wellbeing, Societal

• An appetite for health - research transforming the food we eat

  Alexandra Johnstone (Coordinator)

  Impact: Economic and/or Commercial, Societal

• A new blueprint for behaviour change interventions to improve public health and safety

  Marie Johnston (Coordinator) & Jill Francis (Coordinator)

  Impact: Societal

• Application of mathematical models for public health protection against infectious diseases

  Francisco Perez-Reche (Coordinator), Norval Strachan (Coordinator) & Kenneth James Forbes (Coordinator)

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• Automated screening systems for the early detection of diabetic retinopathy: development and incorporation into a national screening programme

  John A. Olson (Coordinator), Peter Sharp (Coordinator) & John Forrester (Coordinator)

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• Campylobacteriosis: risk assessment and reducing infection in humans

  Norval Strachan (Coordinator), Kenneth James Forbes (Coordinator) & Iain Ogden (Coordinator)

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• Cannabis as a source of medicines

  Roger Pertwee (Coordinator), P Consroe (Coordinator), R Musty (Coordinator) & David Baker (Coordinator)

  Impact: Health and Wellbeing

• Commercial applications of pioneering research on the human gut microbiota

  Karen Scott (Participant), Petra Louis (Participant), Alan Walker (Participant), Sylvia Duncan (Participant) & Harry Flint (Participant)

  Impact: Economic and/or Commercial, Health and Wellbeing

• Creating innovative technologies and products for the treatment of bone defects

  Iain R Gibson (Coordinator), Jan Skakle (Participant), Richard Aspden (Participant), Basil Annaz (Participant) & Jordan Conway (Participant)

  Impact: Economic and/or Commercial, Health and Wellbeing

• Depressive Disorder Research

  Ian Reid (Coordinator), Isobel Cameron (Coordinator), Kenneth Lawton (Coordinator) & John Crawford (Coordinator)

  Impact

• Development of an international standard measure for the reporting of patients’ assessment of their varicose veins

  Andrew Garratt (Coordinator), D. Ruta (Coordinator), K Buckingham (Coordinator) & Zygmunt Krukowski (Coordinator)

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• Discovery and commercialisation of an entirely new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

  Claude Wischik (Participant), Charles Harrington (Participant), John Storey (Participant), Janet Rickard (Participant), David Horsley (Participant), Thomas Baddeley (Participant), Steven Kemp (Participant), James Sinclair (Participant), Claudia Zabke (Participant), F. Theuring (Participant), F Stamer (Participant) & C Marshall (Participant)

  Impact: Health and Wellbeing, Economic and/or Commercial

• Discovery and commercialisation of new drug for rheumatoid arthritis and related conditions

  Iain Greig (Coordinator), Stuart Ralston (Coordinator) & Rob. J. van't Hof (Coordinator)

  Impact

• Discovery and development of a new drug for the treatment of dementia

  Claude Wischik (Coordinator), Charles Harrington (Coordinator), John Storey (Participant), Janet Rickard (Participant) & David Horsley (Participant)

  Impact: Economic and/or Commercial

• From melatonin receptors to Valdoxan

  Peter Morgan (Coordinator), Lynda Williams (Coordinator), Perry Barrett (Coordinator) & A D Strosberg (Coordinator)

  Impact: Health and Wellbeing

• Fuller LongerTM: University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health helps to develop a new health food range for Marks and Spencer

  Alexandra Johnstone (Coordinator)

  Impact

• Helping adults with obesity lose weight: providing a new evidence base and putting it into practice

  Alison Avenell (Coordinator), Graeme MacLennan (Participant), Dwayne Boyers (Participant) & Zoe Skea (Participant)

  Impact: Policy, Health and Wellbeing, Societal

• Improved public health through the impact of research underpinning the introduction of Smokefree Legislation in Scotland

  Anne Ludbrook (Coordinator), Edwin Van Teijlingen (Coordinator) & Sheona Anne Bird (Coordinator)

  Impact

• Improving nutritional balance for high street consumers

  Alexandra Johnstone (Coordinator)

  Impact

• Increasing uptake of free eye examinations among Scotland’s poorer citizens

  Alexandros Zangelidis (Coordinator), Heather Suzanne Dickey (Participant), Divine Chinedu Ikenwilo (Participant), Patricia Norwood (Participant) & Verity Watson (Participant)

  Impact: Societal

• Influencing national and international breastfeeding care through the generation of high quality evidence

  Pat Hoddinott (Coordinator), David John Godden (Coordinator), Rosemary Jane Britten (Coordinator), Jill Ann Mollison (Coordinator), Amanda Lee (Coordinator), Gordon Prescott (Coordinator) & Anne Ludbrook (Coordinator)

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• Influencing the introduction of self-monitoring coagulometers for NHS patients receiving longterm vitamin K antagonist therapy

  Miriam Brazzelli (Coordinator), Pawana Sharma (Participant), Graham Scotland (Participant), Moira Cruickshank (Participant), Emma Maura Tassie (Participant), Cynthia Fraser (Participant), Christopher Burton (Participant) & Craig Ramsay (Participant)

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• Making in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) safer: a strategy of elective single embryo transfer to minimise the risk of perinatal complications associated with multiple pregnancy

  Siladitya Bhattacharya (Coordinator), Zabeena Pandian (Coordinator), Allan Templeton (Coordinator), Graham Scotland (Coordinator), Abha Maheshwari (Coordinator) & David McLernon (Coordinator)

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