BRC News

UCLH has been placed in the top 10 NHS trusts for clinical research activity in 2018/19.

UCL and UCLH are set to apply artificial intelligence to tackle the global threat of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) after being awarded £3.3m in government funding.

The UK’s first NHS clinic to help those who suddenly find themselves unable to speak, read and write has opened at UCLH with support from UCL.

A multidisciplinary team of UCL researchers have launched a new centre for inclusion health.

UCL and KCL researchers have devised a new artificial intelligence-based method for detecting the brain’s response to treatment in multiple sclerosis that is substantially better than what a human expert is able to do.

BRC Director Professor Bryan Williams has been recognised as a ‘World Expert’ in hypertension (high blood pressure) by the US-based medical website Expertscape which placed him in the top 0.1% of experts in his field.

The BRC’s Oral Health and Disease (OH&D) theme has hosted the first academic and research training session for trainees on the NIHR Integrated Academic Training programme in Oral Medicine and other dental specialties, which is based at UCL/UCLH Eastman Dental Institute and Hospital.

UCL researchers have produced the first ‘chronological map of human health’.

Researchers and patients reviewed the latest developments from the BRC’s Deafness and Hearing Problems theme at a special event at the UCL Ear Institute compered by theme lead Prof Anne Schilder.

The management of hearing loss may radically change over the next decade as a wide range of novel therapeutics reach the clinical domain, UCLH researchers have highlighted.

UCL has opened a new centre to train leaders in medical imaging research in a bid to encourage translation of imaging innovation into better clinical care.

UCLH is gearing up to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day on Friday 17 May to raise awareness of research happening across UCLH and to encourage patients and the public to get involved in research.

Two of the Radiology team at University College Hospital are being honoured at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) conference, being held in Montreal, Canada.

Doctors could use just one scan to assess the spread of a patient’s cancer - instead of multiple scans which is current practice - according to research led by UCL and UCLH.

Training for and completing a first-time marathon “reverses” ageing of major blood vessels, with older and slower runners benefiting the most, according to research presented at a European Society of Cardiology meeting.