Paul Johnson (Professor of Paediatric Surgery) gives a talk on a new treatement for Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease where the patient’s body has attacked its own insulin-producing cells. It largely starts in childhood and is treated with insulin injections. An alternative approach is transplant – either of the whole pancreas, a major operation, or the much less invasive transplantation of islet cells (the islets of Langerhans). This talk discusses the development of this treatment and its future potential.

Jaz Hill-Valler (DPhil student, Experimental Radio Cosmology) gives an introduction to the work of radio astronomers by postgraduate student Jaz, who works with the Experimental Radio Cosmology group and Department of Astrophyics.

Can you view studying abroad as an apprenticeship in democracy? Maia Chankseliani discusses her work, which focusses on former Soviet Union countries, linking student mobility with the level of democratic development in the student’s home country. Maia Chankseliani is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education

Melissa Bedard explains the body’s lack of an immune response to cancer cells through an analogy with spy movies. She describes how her research group is working to better understand how immune cells recognise and fight cancer, and to manipulate those cells through immunology. Her talk also includes a look at the pros and cons of immunotherapy versus chemotherapy

A quick overview of the event, presented by Dr Linda Yueh.