UCL Institute of Neurology

The website for the Cultural Consultation Service (CCS), which provides support to students and staff experiencing challenges to their learning and/or teaching due to intercultural conflict, has now launched.

The Education Unit is delighted to announce two teaching awards for Clinical teachers, the Djamshidian-Chinthapalli award for outstanding contribution to bedside teaching and the 2011/12 Clinical Tutor of the Year award.

Congratulations to Professor Xavier Golay (Department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation), who has been awarded a networking grant from the European Science Foundation COST office, the first grant of this kind awarded to UCL. The prestigious award will be used to support the Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) Initiative in Dementia (AID) Action network, which aims to coordinate research in this area and optimise the use of facilities already existing in Europe. The network, which runs for four years, held its first networking event with the official Kick-Off Meeting in Brussels in December 2011.

Read more>> European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (see page 30) and COST website

18 April 2012

Congratulations to UCL Institute of Neurology scientists, Dr David Werring and Professor Nick Fox, who are part of an international team of scientists that has recently been awarded funding from the Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (CoEN) to study how vascular disease contributes to neurodegenerative disease. The project, titled Standards for Determining the Vascular Contribution to Neurodegeneration, aims to create a common, albeit expert set of definitions and terminology to describe neuroimaging findings related to diseases affecting brain small vessels. These diseases, including hypertensive arteriopathy and cerebral amyloid angiopathy, are among the commonest to affect the brain and are key causes of stroke and dementia.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has visited the Dementia Research Centre at UCL as part of this morning’s government announcement that dementia research funding will be doubled to £66 million by 2015.