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Professor Philippe Aghion, former Professor of Economics at UCL, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025.   

More than three-quarters of women feel that they are not well-informed enough about menopause, according to a new study led by UCL researchers, highlighting the need for a nationwide menopause education programme.

After being treated with an electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, people with sight loss have recovered reading vision, reports a trial involving a UCL and Moorfields clinical researcher.

A major UCL-led clinical trial, aiming to transform the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease through a simple blood test, is now welcoming its first participants who will be recruited via memory clinics across the UK.

The first new UK-wide long-term scientific study of babies and child development in a quarter of a century will be led by researchers at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

UCL’s entrepreneurship hub in King’s Cross has supported thousands of staff, students and graduates since it opened its doors in 2015. Over 600 of them have gone on to launch their own startups. Here, on World Entrepreneurs Day, we look back at some of the many success stories.

Two UCL academics have been awarded prestigious 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prizes for their work in Economics and Languages and Literatures. 

Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL) has been awarded an honorary CBE for his services to dementia research in the UK and internationally.

Three UCL academics have been elected to US National Academy of Medicine for their work on the epidemiology of tuberculosis, artificial intelligence in ophthalmology, and cancer genomics.