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Department of Medicine

Our mission is to translate world class fundamental research into interventions that positively impact health and wellbeing for people everywhere.

Professor Duncan Richards, Head of Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge

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Brain cooling collar trial for head injury patients

2 February 2026

Dr Andrea Lavinio (PACE) leads the world's first in-human study to assess whether a targeted cooling collar can improve patients' recovery from traumatic brain injuries.

Cambridge joins global consortium to transform antibiotic discovery against AMR

23 January 2026

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are part of a major international effort exploring novel approaches to antibiotic discovery to deal with the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). With a total of $60 million in new grant funding over the next three years from the Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk...

The neural correlates of shared and individual experience

23 January 2026

Published today in Communications Biology, this research led by Peter Coppola, Lorina Naci & Emmanuel A. Stamatakis shows that default mode network dynamics diverge across individuals during awareness, supporting personal experience, while auditory and attention networks stay aligned, underpinning shared experience.