Boost your CV with our Student Opportunities Grants! Available to both undergraduate and postgraduate members, we can support your extracurricular activities and projects (including student societies!). Find out more and submit an application today ow.ly/qZCF50W2e5q

🩸 Just 2% of people donate blood. This #NationalBloodWeek, the NHS is calling for 1 million donors to help meet growing demand. Biomedical scientists rely on your donations to save lives every day. Find out how to donate: blood.co.uk #GiveBlood

Scholarships, visa advice, graduate opportunities and more - catch up on all the latest episodes, on YouTube: bit.ly/45noImj

Heading to uni and missed your #MenACWY vaccine at school? It protects against serious infections like #Meningitis, which can come on suddenly and become life-threatening. You can still get it free until you’re 25, contact your GP to catch up. 📞🥼

The #HPV vaccine is highly effective. It can prevent 9 in 10 cases of the most high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) – the #1 cause of #CervicalCancer. 🔗bit.ly/41MNKY7

Passionate about communicating exciting scientific topics to the public? Our annual Science Communication Prize is now open until 18 August! We're welcoming media and written entries across different educational stages. Find out how to get involved: ow.ly/yJAy50Wes5b

As featured in The Biomedical Scientist: A paid Level 6 apprenticeship model is helping address workforce shortages in pathology — delivering trained HCPC-registered biomedical scientists faster and more fairly. Read more: bit.ly/4k4O646

Whole genome sequencing could soon be offered to all newborns in England, helping predict and prevent illness before symptoms even begin. A major shift towards personalised, preventive care. bit.ly/4egoqQB #GenomicsConversation

⏰ Missed the application deadline, didn't get any offers or changed your mind about going to uni? 🎓 Here's how Clearing can help you find your place bit.ly/46r50GH

Don't let #meningitis derail your studies. Becca got critically ill while at #university and her story shows how serious it can get. 🎓 Get vaccinated before you go. 🛡️ 🔗 Read her story: bit.ly/3G4NtJv

Important first-in-human report today for donor pancreatic islet beta-cell transplant to an individual w/Type 1 diabetes. With genome editing of the cells, there was no immune response induced or need for immunosuppression. Major implications for transplantation in general NEJM

Wye Valley NHS Trust is looking for a Biomedical Scientist to join their Histopathology Department in Hereford. Work with modern lab technology across histology techniques, including IHC and digital pathology. Apply by 31st August 2025: bit.ly/3HvCN7O

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor listened patiently, then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked

We're launching a chickenpox vaccination programme which will protect around half a million children each year. From January 2026, eligible children will get an MMRV vaccine to protect against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Eligibility will be announced in due course.

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👋 Meet Simon. He was working at the level of a biomedical scientist but without HCPC registration he could not use the protected title. The IBMS Certificate of Competence by Equivalence gave him the pathway to register. Find out more: bit.ly/4p779hH

As students head to university for #FreshersWeek we are urging them to use condoms to protect themselves and others from #STIs. Data we published last week shows that #gonorrhoea and #syphilis remain very high in England. Read the full story: gov.uk/government/new…

Today is #WorldPatientSafetyDay. Biomedical scientists play a vital role in keeping patients safe - from delivering accurate test results to upholding the highest standards of care. Thank you for the work you do every day. 💙 #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare

An exciting Band 5 Biomedical Scientist role is now open in Haematology and Blood Transfusion at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. Join a UKAS-accredited, IBMS-approved team on the beautiful English Riviera. 🌊 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/3KCntaz