BRC News

Professor Ali Zumla and members of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis (APPG-GTB) have sounded an alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant TB.

The BRC cardiometabolic programme has launched a new entry/career development fellowship scheme. Image courtesy of morguefile

BRC funded researchers have teamed up with the Royal Brompton & Harefield Brompton Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to research treatments into the fatal lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Image courtesy of morguefile

The World Health Organisation’s patient safety programme working party, which included Dr Sarah J L Edwards, has published its report on patient safety research. Image courtesy of dreamstime

Professor Alimuddin Zumla has been presented with a lifetime achievement award for his research in infectious diseases, tropical medicine, particularly TB, HIV and respiratory diseases.

New findings have shown that head and neck cancer patients who are not infected with the HPV virus develop cancer in a different way from those infected with HPV. Image courtesy of Wellcome Images

The deadline is fast approaching for applications to the groundbreaking new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) bursary fund. Image courtesy of dreamstime

The UCL BioResource is thriving with 130 participants signed up so far and feedback reveals volunteers are motivated by the desire to help research.

Many of the elite sportsmen and women competing at the London 2012 Olympics had poor oral health which had a negative impact on their performance, according to research led by Professor Ian Needleman at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute.

A BRC-supported researcher has been awarded £360,000 to extend ground breaking research into obesity.

A researcher supported by our BRC, together with a team at Guys St Thomas BRC, have discovered a new HIV-1 restriction factor. Image courtesy of  CDC/ A. Harrison; Dr. P. Feorino

UCL has joined forces with international medical devices company Smiths Medical to launch a ground-breaking Discovery Lab.

Researchers have proposed a way to avoid patients with neuromyelitis optica being wrongly diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis (MS). Image courtesy of Professor Peter Brophy, Wellcome Images

More than 180,000 lives could be lost by 2030 unless urgent action is taken to fill critical gaps in breast cancer research, a report has warned. Image courtesy of Dr David Becker, Wellcome Images 

Researchers have discovered that women who acquire urine infections during pregnancy are at increased risk of pre-eclampsia, a life threatening condition that affects 5% of pregnancies and for which the cause is still unknown.