伦敦大学学院教授获得2014诺贝尔生理学或医学奖

伦敦大学学院John O'Keefe教授获得2014诺贝尔生理学或医学奖

Professor John O'Keefe wins Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Professor John O’Keefe, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Division of Biosciences at UCL, has today been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain - an ‘inner GPS’ - that enables us to orient ourselves.

John O’Keefe教授神经贿赂和行为塞恩斯伯里康中心的负责人，是伦敦大学生物科学系细胞发育生物部门的神经系统学的教授。因发现组成大脑定位系统（GPS）的特殊细胞的研究成果获得2014年诺贝尔生物学或者医学奖。

埃克塞特大学生物学学生获得资金资助

Major funding announced for bioscience students

The South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) is to receive substantial new funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for the training and development of bioscience PhD students.

The BBSRC has announced an investment of £125 million ‘for the next generation of scientists to drive the economy of the future’. This will fund the training of 1,250 bioscience students at 12 doctoral training centres in the UK, including the Bristol-led partnership. 

生物技术和生物科学委员会宣布一项价值12亿5千万英镑的投资“为了下一代的科学家来改善未来的经济.” 这将资助在英国12家博士培训中心的1250名在读生物博士生。