Launch of the Winefride and Booth Smith PhD Studentships
October 19th, 2021We are delighted to announce the launch of the Patrick Wild Centre’s new 10 year PhD scheme: The Winefride and Booth Smith Studentships. The studentships are made possible by a very generous legacy bequest from Mrs Winefride Smith, the sister of Dr Alfred Wild and Patrick Wild after whom the university named the Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities. Winefride (Winnie) Violet Wild was born in Edinburgh in 1911. She was the fourth of …
Launch of the Patrick Wild Centre eHub
October 12th, 2020We are excited to announce the launch of our new online portal, the Patrick Wild Centre eHub, on the 10th October 2020, European Fragile X Awareness Day. The aim of the eHub is to collect detailed information about large groups of people with fragile X, the premutation and a comparison group using short, widely used surveys which will then be repeated every 2 years. The idea is to gradually build up a rich picture about how these conditions affect people …
Professor Sir Adrian Bird jointly awarded The Brain Prize 2020
May 5th, 2020The Patrick Wild Centre would like to congratulate Professor Sir Adrian Bird on being jointly awarded The Brain Prize 2020 with Professor Huda Zohgbi (Baylor College of Medicine in Texas). Affectionately known as the ‘Nobel of Neuroscience’ this is one of the most prestigious prizes a neuroscientist can be awarded. Established by the Danish-based Lundbeck Foundation, it is awarded each year to one or more brain researchers who have had a ground-breaking impact on brain research. 2020 is the 10th …
