BSMS Teachers’ Newsletter: June Updates
Monthly Lecture Series
Wednesday 4 June, 6:30-7:30pm
This month, we’re joined by Dr. Iris Asllani to hear about her work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
This talk explores strategies to scale access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in both clinical and research settings, with a focus on neuroscience applications. We'll examine current barriers – technological, infrastructural, and economic – and highlight innovations that are enabling wider deployment of MRI, from low-field systems to novel acquisition and processing techniques. Emphasis will be placed on how these advances can improve diagnostic equity, accelerate research in underserved regions, and reshape the global landscape of neuroimaging.
Sign up now to join us for “Scaling MRI Access: Innovations Enabling Broader Clinical and Research Impact” on 4 June, 6:30-7:30pm, on Zoom.
BSMS Admissions Talks: Summer Series
Our Summer Series of Admissions Talks is designed to help prospective students understand the medical school applications process as well as providing an insight into what life is like at university once they get here.
We'll be running three online talks on Zoom to help answer questions about medical school. You can use the links below to register for each talk:
- Getting into Medicine – Monday 30 June, 5-6:30pm (BST)
- Student Life – What is it like to be a medical student? - Tuesday 1 July, 5-6:30pm (BST)
- UCAT Preparation - Thursday 3 July, 5-6:30pm (BST)
Med-Chi Lecture – Low and High Tech Eye Surgery
Thursday 5 June, 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start
The Brighton & Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society present their June lecture from Professor Saul Rajak.
Saul is a consultant ophthalmologist specialising in oculoplastic and orbital disease at the Sussex Eye Hospital, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. He is an honorary professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Saul leads research in a wide range of areas including orbital imaging, thyroid eye disease and orbital anatomy. Saul spent three years in Ethiopia, running trials into the surgical management of trachomatous trichiasis and was awarded his PhD for this research. Back in Brighton, he has developed and led one of the leading oculoplastic units in the country and has a particular interest in endoscopic lacrimal and orbital surgery. Saul set up and runs the surgical video teaching website and runs the annual Brighton Endoscopic Lacrimal and Orbital training course.
You can register to attend this event in-person only at the Audrey Emerton Building, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Road, Brighton, BN2 5BE.
Gresham College – What next for Immunity?
Wednesday 11 June, 6:00pm
Gresham College are hosting an exciting free lecture on the future of immunity.
Our understanding of the human immune system today is vastly different from that of 50 years ago. This knowledge has led to immune-based therapies that would have seemed like science fiction to our grandparents: monoclonal antibodies, T-cell therapies, anti-cancer vaccines, precision immune suppression – the list is endless.
In this lecture, Professor Robin May looks to the future and asks, “What next for immunity?”
You can register to watch this lecture online, or book a place to attend in person in London.
On-Campus Meet & Greet – July
Wednesday 30 July, 1:30-3:30pm
We are running another on-campus Meet & Greet event for prospective students to visit us on the University of Sussex campus. If students are unable to attend our Open Day on 7 June, this is another great opportunity to discover BSMS.
Visitors will attend an introductory "Welcome to BSMS" talk, go on a campus tour and have their questions answered at our Q&A. They will also get the chance to chat to staff and current students.
Register here. All are welcome at the BSMS Meet and Greet sessions; however, places will be limited to 60 attendees in total. Please note that completing the form does not automatically guarantee a space on the Campus Meet and Greet. Registrants should wait for a confirmation email to come through before making travel plans.
Best wishes,
Agatha
Widening Participation and Outreach Coordinator
Brighton and Sussex Medical School