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Our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal Visited the Grampian, Highlands & Islands Symposium
HRH The Princess Royal joined delegates on 25 March at the Tenovus Scotland Medical Research Symposium in ONE BioHub, Foresterhill, Aberdeen to hear about a range of their recent research projects. The Princess Royal is the Charity's Patron.
Her Royal Highnesss was met at the ONE BioHub by Tenovus Scotland’s Hon. President Sir David Lane, the National and the Grampian Highlands and Islands Committee (TSGHI) Chair, Professor Jamie Grieve and Tenovus Scotland Trustee and Hon. Secretary TSGHI, Jonathan Young.
Tenovus Scotland started out in Glasgow supporting new medical research initiatives in 1967. Later the Grampian Highlands and Islands Committee was launched and is now in its 50th year. Over the 50 years it has awarded funding of over £2 million for several hundred small innovative research projects, focussing on early career researchers across North and Northeast Scotland. These have been in medical research institutions in the University of the Highlands and Islands, Robert Gordon University, the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen and NHS.
Presentations at the Symposium included research into a diverse range of current medical issues which Tenovus Scotland has been funding, including conditions associated with diabetes, schizophrenia, sepsis, and cognitive decline.
Dr Deborah O'Neil Chair of ONE Life Sciences welcomed the delegates to ONE BioHub and The National Chair of Tenovus Scotland, Professor Jamie Grieve, introduced researchers, speakers and Friends of Tenovus Scotland to The Princess Royal. Professor Grieve said "it was an honour for the Charity to be able introduce the Royal Patron to the innovative research we have been supporting. Researchers have had the opportunity to discuss their work with her, and later to present their findings to delegates at the Symposium. Her Royal Highness has regularly shown great interest in the work of our Charity. Later this year we will be launching another Princess Royal Medical Research Scholarship for a PhD student in our Region”.
Sir David Lane, Tenovus Scotland's Honorary President, also attended the Symposium and said, "I am impressed with the range of research projects that have been supported by the Grampian Highlands and Islands Committee, and with the success that the Charity has achieved in stimulating the development of early career researchers across Scotland".
Dr Guy Bewick was the main speaker at the Symposium and said,” “funding from Tenovus Scotland has been invaluable for supporting the research in my laboratory, partly through a scholarship from the Charity which led to the discovery and characterisation of a new receptor in the nervous system. Now new treatments for high blood pressure are being developed, with other possible solutions to treat chronic pain”.
Dr Deborah O’Neil said: “What makes this region distinctive is not just the quality of its science, but the culture around it. Collaboration is not an aspiration here; it is the
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