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UCL President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant was today named as the preferred choice to chair the NHS Commissioning Board by the Secretary of State for Health.

A time capsule was buried yesterday under the site of The Francis Crick Institute by Francis Crick’s daughter Gabrielle.

The latest results from an expedition to Mount Everest that looked at the body’s response to low oxygen levels suggest that drugs or procedures that promote the body’s production of a chemical compound called nitric oxide (NO) could improve the recovery of critically ill patients in intensive care.

Children with thinner parents are three times more likely to be thin than children whose parents are overweight, according to a new study by UCL researchers.