BRC News

A new best practice guide aimed at helping to improve the clinical trials set-up process in the UK is published today.

UCLH has recruited the first UK patient to a global trial looking at the best way to treat bloodstream infections caused by staph infection.

Minimally invasive therapies for prostate cancer which remove the cancer while leaving the rest of the prostate intact are beneficial for patients and cost effective.

Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy, and may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the condition, finds new UCL research supported by the BRC.

UCLH was the top recruiting site in a major study looking at a new drug in patients with advanced biliary tract or colorectal cancer.

Professor Shonit Punwani is one of six outstanding UK researchers to be awarded a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Professorship.

60 researchers affiliated with UCL have been named as among the 'world's most influential researchers' in 2023.

Prof Bryan Williams, a global leader in his clinical and research field, has received the President’s Award from the Royal College of Physicians.

A course of treatment with existing drugs prior to chemoradiation led to a 35% reduction in the risk of death or return of cancer, in trial results presented by researchers from UCL and UCLH.

Polygenic risk scores, which estimate a person’s disease risk based on thousands or millions of common genetic variants, perform poorly in screening and prediction of common diseases such as heart disease.

A new international study from UCL and UCLH that aims to improve the quality of MRI scans for prostate cancer screening has identified simple ways to treble the number of scans that are of optimal diagnostic quality.

The time of day a patient takes medication for their high blood pressure makes no difference to how well the medication works, according to a large observational study.

A new Centre for Access to Research has been launched by the BRC with the announcement of the first round of a small grants scheme.

Nearly 200 people have visited a family-friendly open event in Islington which engaged the local community in the latest research and innovation in the NHS.

UCLH and UCL researchers and engineers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to make brain surgery safer and more effective.