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ReNeuron/Professor Keith Muir of the Southern General in Glasgow readhed a successful conclusion of the stage 1 PISCES clinical trial of stem cell therapy for stroke

For more information visit the ReNeuron site

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Irwin Mclean discovered the filaggrin gene, the predisposing gene for atopic eczema and asthma, hay fever

For more information: visit the University of Dundee website

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The worlds first fully articulating and commercially available prosthetic bionic hand

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Sir Ian Wilmut and the Roslin Institute team responsible for the creation of the first cloned animal in Dolly the sheep

For more information visit the Roslin Institute site about Dolly

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Sir James Black, Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of β blockers, for control of hypertension

For more information: visit the Nobel Prize website

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Sir John Mallard and his team created the first MRI scanner

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Sir David Lane and his team discovered the p53 tumour suppression gene, which has a key role in the prevention of cancer

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internationally recognised and used method for assessment of the consciousness of a patient with threatened brain injury

For more information: visit the University of Glasgow World Changing Achievements site and the relevant NICE guideline

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Sir David Jack was the leader of the team which created salbutamol, or Ventolin, Becotide, the default treatment for ashtma, and Zantac for stomach disorders

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Sir Michael Wooduff and his team performed the first successful kidney transplant in the UK

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Alick Isaacs was th leader of the team which created 'interferon', still the key successful drug treatment for viral infections

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Lord John Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner for nutrition and establishing link between poverty, poor nutrition and health, UN campaigner for nutrition across the world

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Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist who discovered a mould which he named 'penicillin' - the first anti-biotic, which revolutionised the treatment of infection

For more information: visit the Nobel Prize website and the Fleming Museum

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Along with Frederick Banting and Charles Best, Dr John JR Macleod was a Nobel Prize winner for the discovery and purification of insulin, which contributed to the successful treatment of diabetes for the first time

For more information: visit the Nobel Prize website

Dr John McIntyre of Glasgow Royal Infirmary establishes world's first X-ray department and presents to the Royal Society first film of x ray images in UK

For more information: visit the University of Glasgow World Changing achievements site

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Sir William Macewen, pioneer in surgery, performing the first bone graft, developing the technique of lung removal and the first successful intracranial surgery using the focal epileptic signs to remove a tumour. Sir William was a student of Lister, and introduced the practice of wearing white coats during surgery

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Lord Joseph Lister applied carbolic acid to ensure cleanliness of equipment and theatre, and applied it to a wound of a boy injured by a cart. The dramatic reduction in infection was key to the success of surgery as a lifesaving treatment.

for more information: Visit the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Museums website

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Dr Alexander Wood independently invented a version of the hypodermic syringe needle, used across the world. Sadly his wife became the first person in the world to die as an injecting opium addict.

For more information: visit the Science Museum website

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Sir James Young Simpson introduced choloroform in anaesthesia in childbirth, and was a pioneer of anaesthesia in surgery which meant patients could be given complex longer operations. This opened up the craft of surgery to safe many more lives

for more information: Visit the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Museums website

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Sir James McGrigor, Army Surgeon, instituted the 'chain of evacuation' still used in combat situations today. This involves the establishment of aid stations through which all injured personnel are channeled with clear routes back behind the lines to a military or field hospital.

For more information: visit the University of Aberdeen page

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In the late 1400s the roles of surgeons and barbers, both requiring sharp instruments to practise their trade, were indistinctly defined as regards such tasks as bloodletting, lancing, shaving, bandaging and treating wounds in battle. In 1505 the Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers was founded, later the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the first medical Royal College in the world

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Although medical teaching had taken place in St Bartholomews and in Oxford, the first formal medical school was founded in Kings College Aberdeen at the same time as the University