BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Books

• Life at the Extremes
• The Logic of Life
• Microbe Hunters
• Bad Science
• Advice to a Young Scientist
• The Language of Genes
• One in Three
• Blood of the Isles
• The Music of Life
• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
• The Language of Genes
• The Human Brain: A Guided Tour
• What the Future Looks Like

Lectures and talks

• Brain Reconstruction: The next biomedical breakthrough, or a biological impossibility?

• Are We Too Reliant on Medical Imaging?

• The Evolution of Cancer Therapy
• Personalised Medicine – Made For You – Professor Martin Elliott
• Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading? – Professor Martin Elliott
• Living With the Forever Chemicals – Dr Ian Mudway
• Immunotherapy: Cure for Metastatic Cancers? – James Larkin
• Biomedical Engineering Taster Lecture

Podcasts

• The Healthtech Podcast:Podcast · Dr. James Somauroo · The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered. 🌍 Listeners in over 150 countries. 🎙 New episode every week. 🗣 Hosted by Dr James Somauroo. www.thehealthtechpodcast.com | www.somx.health | www.jamessomauroo.com

Websites

• Anatomy & Physiology

• History of Science

• Outbreak Science

Competitions

• There were five competitions in 2025:

  1. The British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Prize

  This year the prize focuses on diet and nutrition as a science in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Posters should outline the scientific foundations for a general or specific dietary plan for actively promoting cardiovascular health and provide strategies for evaluation, dissemination and public adoption 

  2. The Lung Prize

  Submissions could focus on any aspect of novel prevention or treatment of respiratory disease or on a non-pharmaceutical approach to improving the quality of life and well-being of people with chronic lung disease. The submission should also consider how to assess the effectiveness of such interventions. 

  3. The Rare Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Alliance (RAIRDA) Prize

  Rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases include Lupus, Scleroderma, Sjögren’s disease and Vasculitis.  Patients often face common challenges which impact their quality of life, such as fatigue, consequences of immunosuppressant treatment, and navigating life with a fluctuating and often invisible chronic illness. Non-pharmaceutical approaches like nutrition, psychological support, and exercise can support people to improve their quality of life, but testing and researching these solutions can be difficult in traditional clinical trials.  Your challenge is to design an innovative, non-pharmaceutical solution based on science/technology to help improve the quality of life and wellbeing of people with RAIRDs. You should consider how to assess the effectiveness and promote the implementation of such intervention.  

  4. The Global Health Prize

  Climate change is impacting the health of people around the world in many ways. Choose a specific health issue impacted by climate change (e.g., following an extreme weather event, displacement of people, food insecurity, vector-borne disease etc.). Your challenge is to (1) Clearly explain the science behind how climate change impacts this health issue, and (2) Design a practical and innovative approach to mitigate this health impact within the next 10 years. You can consider solutions that could be implemented in the UK, in a low/middle income country or globally. 

  5. Cancer Research UK Convergence Science Centre contest

  Cancer treatment is a challenging journey, often long and painful for patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or surgery. While the treatment itself cannot be altered, innovative solutions can help make the experience more supportive and comforting for patients. The task is to develop an idea based on science/technology that enhances the patient journey by offering guidance, distraction, or emotional support during treatment. We welcome all types of innovations, such as medical devices, apps, games, or content materials (written, audio, animated, etc.) that help patients cope with their treatment experience. 

  In 2025, the National Heart and Lung Institute and the British Heart Foundation’s Centre of Research Excellence at Imperial College London are offering our Fifth Annual Science in Medicine School Teams Prize to engage sixth form school students with science in medicine.

  The aims are to encourage students to:

  • stretch beyond the school curriculum, think outside the bubble of traditional biomedical fields, and learn about the excitement of research.

  • consider how trends in science and technology will impact on health and medicine in the future.

  • understand the importance of a multidisciplinary approach and teamwork to effective research and development for improvements in public and individual health.

  • forward think realistically by realising the importance of affordability, availability and acceptability in translating inventions towards a reduction in inequality-related poor health outcomes.

  • appreciate the importance of effective communication in rolling out scientific developments, via the use of art and design.

  Any educational organisation in the UK with sixth form students may participate. In past years, no particular type of school has been at an advantage, so all schools that meet that requirement are encouraged to enter.  Students should be less than 19 years old at the start of the school year