BRC News

BRC-supported research has identified a new marker that can be used to detect breast cancer up to a year earlier than current methods.

The BRC Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) & Communications Unit is looking for a PPI Manager to join the team.

i-sense, a research collaboration supported by our BRC, has been awarded a further £3.8 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to continue its groundbreaking work developing early warning sensing systems for infectious diseases. 

The first drug targeting the known cause of the fatal brain disorder Huntington’s disease has successfully lowered the level of the harmful huntingtin protein in the nervous system, in a trial led by BRC-supported researchers. 

PET/MRI scans could become more pleasant for patients, thanks to two films from UCLH's nuclear medicine department.

A new simple test that helps predict which people with type 2 diabetes will benefit most from weight loss surgery has been developed.

Machine learning could improve our ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, potentially enabling researchers to detect drug effects that would be missed entirely by conventional tests, according to a study published today in Brain.

People excluded from mainstream society in high-income countries have a tenfold increased risk of early death, according to research published in The Lancet.

Doctors at UCLH are trialling a biological combination treatment for patients with the disabling condition lupus.

Researchers have been awarded over £600,000 to investigate the emerging link between dementia risk and hearing loss.

Imagine a world in which you can think but cannot speak. For many stroke survivors this nightmare is a reality; this Sunday their story is told in an intensely moving and personal film about language and its loss.

Physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Doctors at UCLH are investigating whether a blood‐clot promoting drug could help stop bleeding within the brain in stroke patients.

The BRC spoke to Professor Rob Howard, Mental Health Theme Lead and Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at UCL, on World Mental Health Day about better treatments for people with dementia and psychosis.

The first trial of an experimental treatment for liver cancer, using X-ray imageable microscopic beads loaded with a targeted anti-cancer drug placed directly in the liver, has begun.