BRC News

UCL is part of a three-year project that will sequence 100,000 whole genomes of children and adults with rare genetic diseases. Image courtesy of Adrian Cousins, Wellcome Images

Professor Derek Yellon has been awarded an honorary DSc by the University of Cape Town.

A BRC researcher is pioneering a study to track in real time how lung tumours develop and evolve as patients receive treatment.

The BRC has awarded over a quarter of a million pounds to groundbreaking experimental medicine research projects within the cardiometabolic programme. Image courtesy of Gordon Museum, Wellcome Images 

A leadership training programme for School of Life & Medical Sciences (SLMS) investigators has been launched.

UCLPartners has had its Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) designation renewed for another five years.

A group of Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) researchers has further characterised the wasting atrophy patterns in familial Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), paving the way for developing more sensitive methods for tracking the disease and managing the disease before its onset.

The first clinical fellows of the Francis Crick institute have been recruited. 

An international team of researchers have unlocked the genetic cause of DOORS syndrome, paving the way for more accurate and timely diagnosis of this rare disease. Image courtesy of Wellcome Images

UCL won the International Collaboration of the Year award this week at the Times Higher Education Awards 2013.

The UCL Cancer Institute is seeking to appoint a Chair of Radiation Oncology. Image courtesy of dreamstime

A BRC faculty member has won an award which commends early career investigators for research into cardiovascular radiology.

A team, led by a BRC researcher, has been awarded almost £200,000 to speed up global research into Parkinson’s.

Spirogen, a biotechnology company spun-out of UCL by UCL Business in 2001, has been sold to AstraZeneca.

BRC researchers have used a combination of functional imaging and neuropsychological testing to identify the role of areas of the brain responsible for memory and the likely impact of their removal to treat focal epilepsy. Image courtesy of dreamstime