Life Sciences News
24 January 2012: UCL and partners win £5.4 million for PhD studentships
UCL has led a
successful multi-institutional bid for £5.4 million to fund new PhD studentships in a competition run by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council (BBSRC).
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12 January 2012: Platinum award for UCL synthetic biology competition student
Thomas Deane, an A-level student and member of an interdisciplinary team from UCL, has been awarded an Exscitec Platinum Award for his work in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition in Amsterdam. Although Deane won the award, the achievement would not have been possible without the work of the rest of the UCL undergraduate iGEM team.
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11 January 2012: A million NHS users are suffering preventable or inadequately treated pain
At any one time a million people in England are
living with long term pain which could have been prevented or be being
significantly better treated, according to a joint UCL School of Pharmacy and UK
Clinical Pharmacy Association report published today.
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1 January 2012: School of Pharmacy merges with UCL
The School of Pharmacy, University of London, today merged with UCL. More...
22 December 2011: UCL News review 2011
The past year at UCL has seen a landmark larynx transplant, a lecture from Noam Chomsky, simulated missions to Mars and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, among many other groundbreaking developments. UCL Communications has created the digital review of the year below: click on the images to discover more. More...
14 December 2011: UCL Research Strategy published
8 December 2011: Mitochondria and the great gender divide
25 November 2011: Vice-Provost begins Presidency of the Academy of Medical Sciences
10 November 2011: Launch of collaborative infection research institute
12 October 2011: Time capsule buried under The Francis Crick Institute
10 October 2011: London Science Festival at UCL
22 September 2011: Is the 'longevity gene' nearing the end of its life?
19 September 2011: UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants available
8 September 2011: Babies distinguish pain from touch at 35-37 weeks
22 August 2011: Iberian Lynx not doomed by its genetics
8 August 2011: Brain’s map of space falls flat when it comes to altitude
4 August 2011: UCL wins 10 European Research Council grants
21 July 2011: Fossil reveals oldest evidence of live birth in reptiles
20 July 2011: Rock paper scissors players are natural copycats
8 July 2011: UCL at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
7 July 2011: Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland
