Awards and Appointments
February 2012
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL has received a £70,000 grant from the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund, which is jointly funded by the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation. Jack Ashby, Manager of the Museum, said: "We’re thrilled to been selected
for this award. The Grant Museum played a key role in the way that zoology was
taught throughout its history, and this project will enable us to make unusual
but beautiful displays with some of the hidden objects in our collection
including wax models and intricate microscope slides. We will also be spending
some of the money to enhance many of our existing displays, and to renovate the
entrance with new art installations inspired by the museum." Read the DCMS press release
January 2012
Awards, appointments, elections and honours
The Royal Astronomical Society have awarded Andrew Fazakerley
(UCL Space & Climate Physics) their Chapman Medal which recognises investigations of outstanding merit in solar-terrestrial physics. Hiranya Peiris(UCL Physics & Astronomy) has won the society's Fowler award in recognition of her particularly noteworthy contribution to astronomy at an early stage of her research career.
Professor Vincent Walsh (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
)has been
awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Royal Society Industry
Fellowship. UCL Enterprise have also selected Professor Walsh as a 2012 Knowledge
Transfer Champion. Read the UCL news story
Dr Nora Pashayan (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Clinical Scientist Fellowship. She will recieve £542,000 from Cancer Research UK to
support her clinical
academic research to calculate a ‘risk score’ for the chance of a man
developing prostate cancer using the patient’s genetic information.
Three UCL staff and several members of UCL’s alumni community have been recognised in the 2012 New Year Honours list.
Professor Sir Mark Pepys (UCL Medicine) has received a knighthood for services to biomedicine. Professor Clare Fowler (UCL Institute of Neurology) and Dr Eileen Vizard (UCL Mental Health Sciences Unit) have been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to uro-neurology and for services to children and young people respectively. Read the UCL news story.
Professor Ray Dolan (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL) has
been elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
(APS) for “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of
psychology”. Read the UCL news story.
The EpiPGX Consortium, involving 15 partners from 8 countries, has received almost €6 million funding from the European Union FP7 programme to investigate the genetic basis of responses to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in epilepsy. The Consortium is coordinated by Professor Sanjay Sisodiya (UCL Institute of Neurology). Read the UCL news story.
Dr Tanja AJ Houweling (UCL Centre for International Health and Development (CIHD)) has been awarded £393,551 by the ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development to lead a project entitled Socio-economic inequalities and the MDGs: building evidence to support equitable improvement in maternal and newborn health in Asia & Africa. Read the CIHD news story.
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