Companies and People News for October 2015

Companies and People News Archive

30 years on CANTAB inventors herald the dawn of a new era in neuroscience 30 years on CANTAB inventors herald the dawn of a new era in neuroscience

Three decades ago two emerging neuroscientists, Barbara Sahakian and Trevor Robbins from University of Cambridge received a grant from The Wellcome Trust to fund their development of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Automated Test Battery or CANTAB™. Delegates to CANTAB 30, a special conference held recently at the University of Cambridge to mark 30 years of expert cognitive neuroscience, heard how CANTAB™, has fundamentally changed the way brain function is measured and understood, leading to the dawn of a new era in neuroscience.

Social scientists needed to solve the problem of antibiotic overuse Social scientists needed to solve the problem of antibiotic overuse

overuse“The rise of resistance to antibiotics (Anti-Microbial Resistance, AMR) is largely a consequence of human action, and is as much a societal problem as a technological one.”