Domain Chair:
Dr Rachel Batterham
Domain Coordinator:
Sarah Welsher
The Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School of Life and Medical Sciences within nine core groupings.
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UCL News review 2011
Publication date: 22 December 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.
Wolfson Foundation awards £20million to UCL for experimental neurology centre
Publication date: 19 December 2011
A new centre dedicated to the understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases will be established at UCL following the award of a £20million grant from the Wolfson Foundation, it was announced today.
UCL Research Strategy published
Publication date: 14 December 2011
The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.
Brain changes seen in cabbies who take 'The Knowledge'
Publication date: 12 December 2011
Professor Eleanor Maguire (UCL Imaging Neuroscience) comments on how taxi drivers’ brains rewire while learning their way around London. Read: BBC News More: Nature Telegraph Times (£) Daily Mail Mirror
Gene therapy achieves early success against hereditary bleeding disorder
Publication date: 10 December 2011
Study of gene therapy developed at UCL and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital offers first proof adults with haemophilia B benefit from treatment, reducing need for injections with clotting factor to prevent bleeds.
Mitochondria and the great gender divide
Publication date: 8 December 2011
Why are there two sexes? It’s a question that has long perplexed generations of scientists, but researchers from UCL have come up with a radical new answer: mitochondria.
Personalised treatment for Crohn’s Disease a step closer following gene mapping
Publication date: 8 December 2011
Three new locations for Crohn’s Disease genes have been uncovered by scientists at UCL using a novel gene mapping approach.
Brawling ex-con to painter, after a stroke
Publication date: 7 December 2011
Dr Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Biomedical Imaging) and Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) on how strokes can change personality and behaviour. Read: The Times (£)
The Life Scientific
Publication date: 7 December 2011
Professor Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) talks about her pioneering work on autism and dyslexia. Listen: BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific
Denied to thousands: the dementia lifeline that gave me my mother back
Publication date: 7 December 2011
A detailed look at the availability of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), a course of activity sessions for dementia sufferers developed by Dr Aimee Spector (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology). Read: Daily Mail
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