Your donation is helping to revolutionise young lives at the University of Edinburgh. You are now part of a special group of supporters who are committed to helping students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds realise their dream of studying here. Together, you are helping to provide the best teaching and learning experience for our students and you are giving them opportunities to change lives themselves through their innovative community projects. With your support, more students can experience new cultures, new countries and new opportunities through an international trip. Thank you for your support.
With your donation, you are part of a special group of people who are helping to provide a valuable short-term international experience. Your donation is being put to use straightaway, giving students the opportunity to work, volunteer or study abroad and enhance their future employability prospects. For some students, especially from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, an international experience as part of their University of Edinburgh course would normally be out of reach. Now, thanks to your support they are able to make the most of this opportunity and gain valuable skills for their studies and future career.
With your donation, you are part of a special group of people supporting creative community student projects at the University of Edinburgh. Together, supporters like you are giving students the opportunities to make a difference in local, national or international communities through Student Experience Grants. These projects range from providing affordable, organic food to residents of Edinburgh direct from local farms to enabling access to clean, safe drinking water in communities in Morocco.
Your donation will help students who may have faced barriers in accessing higher education and those from under-represented groups develop the confidence, skills and connections to consider a range of careers through introductions to Edinburgh alumni working in an exciting range of sectors and environments. You can find out more about the Insights Programme and how your support is helping students at www.ed.ac.uk/students/careers/insights.
The Kunath laboratory at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine is dedicated to finding novel treatments to slow, halt, reverse, or prevent Parkinson’s. In 2011, they published the first human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived in Scotland with a Parkinson’s genetic mutation. They are experts in converting Parkinson’s stem cells into dopamine-producing neurons to test out novel treatments for Parkinson’s. Prof Kunath has shared the Parkinson’s iPS cells with over 20 national and international labs to accelerate global efforts to find a cure for this disease. Your donation will go directly to Parkinson’s research in the Kunath laboratory and will bring us that much closer to finding a cure for this serious condition.
The Edinburgh Research into Cancer (ERIC) fund was an idea for Edinburgh-specific research into cancer causes and therapies stimulated by our wonderful colleague, Dr Andy Sims, an outstanding scientist, mentor and teacher who recently passed away, far too young, as a result of melanoma. Your donation will be used to enhance research into cancers by our scientists across the University of Edinburgh, using our unique expertise and strengths. By applying cross-disciplinary skills and bringing innovation to our work in Edinburgh, we will use the ERIC fund to inspire and enhance national and international efforts to improve understanding of cancer and devise new, kinder therapies for cancer patients in Edinburgh and beyond.
The ENDO1000 Project aims to accelerate discovery and advance data-driven research into endometriosis diagnosis and treatment. Your donation will help us to provide endometriosis sufferers with new information to empower them to make and shape decisions about their care.
