UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences

As the general election approaches, UCL staff and students share their wishlist for policies from the next government affecting a range of aspects of life, from human rights and science to crime, the environment, and more...

It is with great sadness that the UCL School of Life & Medical Sciences has learnt of the death of Jack Tinker on 14 April 2010. Jack pioneered modern intensive care medicine, reformed postgraduate medical education and was a leading medical journal editor.

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• UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
• British Academy

Just one five-minute screening test of the lower colon and rectum for people aged between 55 and 64 could reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer by a third and prevent thousands of deaths from the disease, scientists have found.

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• The UCL Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

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• Kinematics Lab at Development Cognitive Neuroscience Unit
• UCL Institute of Child Health
• UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology
• Bobath Centre

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• Professor Uta Frith
• UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Autism and Talent
• Autism Awareness
• UCL on YouTube
  

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• Coverage in The Guardian
• Coverage in The Scotsman
• Study published in Nature Cell Biology
• UCL Cancer Institute

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• Professor Linda Partridge
• Professor Christopher Peacocke
• UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing
• UCL Philosophy
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• 2010 class of new members list

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• Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
• UCL Life Sciences