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- Engaging the public with physics, the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson
- Hip replacements: Changes to health policy and regulation
- Mentalization-based therapy: improving treatment for patients with borderline personality disorders
- New dental treatments help to reduce development of antibiotic resistance
- Tropical storm warning system saves lives
- Treating waste with carbon dioxide
- Reanimating cultural heritage in Sierra Leone
- Healing Heritage: The impact of museums on health and wellbeing
- Exploring Belize's Maya heritage
- Space Syntax: improving national and international urban environments
- Thames Discovery Programme: Community archaeology on the Thames foreshore
- Caring for Hinemihi: A Maori meeting house in the UK
- A new type of leg implant for young cancer patients
- The Marmot Review: national and local policies to redress social inequalities in health
- Evidence for best practice within NHS Stop Smoking Services
- Transforming the future of Silk Roads archaeology
- Models enabling the use of satellite data to monitor climate change and improve weather forecasting
- Monitoring the impacts of fire
- Mapping names to establish cultural, linguistic and ethnic affinities
- Open Air Laboratories and their contribution to public awareness and involvement in water science
- Pinpointing satellites' orbit
- Hereditary autoinflammatory disease programme: the NHS CAPS Treatment Service
- Public health and arsenic pollution in Bangladesh
- Trimethylaminuria is a genetic disorder
- Improving patient adherence to medicines through the New Medicines Service
- Graphical monitoring of clinical outcomes and healthcare quality
- Humanising the Underground
- B cell depletion: an effective therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
- Building climate resilience in the cities of the Global South
- Promoting environmental justice and social sustainability in the Congo Basin
- The limits of European integration in Eastern Europe
- Moderate hypothermia as a therapy for neonatal encephalopathy improves survival and reduces disability
- Introduction of aromatase inhibitors for the treatment of breast cancer
- TARGIT: transforming the breast cancer treatment paradigm
- Improving maternal and newborn survival in low-resource settings
- Study A leads to changes in tuberculosis treatment guidelines
- Invention and commercial development of diagnostic tests of frontal lobe function
- Cognitive Stimulation Therapy - a new therapy for dementia
- Improving the diagnosis and understanding of Batten Disease
- Target Medicine: inspiring and supporting applications to medical schools from non-selective state school students
- Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis - safer testing avoids the risk of miscarriage
- Improving vision of patients with angle-closure glaucoma
- Evaluating and introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccines into the UK infant immunisation programme
- Tracking the stealth virus: diagnosis and treatment of CMV infection
- The genetics of familial hypercholesterolaemia
- Improving treatment of acute leukaemia
- Improving treatments for non-Hodgkin lymphomas
- Improving diagnosis and treatment of the inherited cardiomyopathies
- Drug development in an innovative model of collaboration between academia and industry
- Health Survey for England: developing evidence-based policies to tackle obesity
- Influencing global policy on antiretroviral treatment priorities
- Improving the manufacture and performance of inhaled drug delivery devices
- The Trauma Screening Questionnaire: improving the management of the psychological consequences of disasters and terrorism
- Increasing public awareness of and informing policy on the effects of recreational drug use
- A new method of assessing atrophy progression in Alzheimer's disease: the Boundary Shift Integral technique
- The Phonological Assessment Battery - improving diagnosis of dyslexia in children
- Improving end-of-life care
- Improving reading and visual search in stroke patients
- Bringing evidence-based practice to psychological therapy
- Improving the diagnosis and management of dementia
- Healing chronic wounds with Nexagon
- Codifying the process of government formation through the UK Cabinet Manual
- Provision of data on freshwater acidification and recovery for monitoring and policymaking
- UCL research helps give Commons backbenchers greater control over parliamentary debates
- Histories of the Italian mafias aid the fight against organised crime
- Using corpora for English language teaching
- Applied research leading to the regulation of drip pricing
- Engaging with the legacies of British slave-ownership
- Exhibiting antiquity on film
- Lisbon and its Jewish refugees: Engaging Portugal with its World War II history
- Senceive: Innovative remote condition monitoring solutions for the rail and construction industries
- Eva Hesse's Studiowork and the provisional status of the artwork
- Facet analysis and its influence on the major systems of library classification
- Illuminating the black presence in London before 1948
- Improving the evaluation and efficacy of conditional cash transfers in Latin America
- The Mirrlees Review: Influencing policy and debate on taxation
- Influencing the policy debate on immigration
- A clinical management service for stroke prevention
- Setting the National Minimum Wage
- Evaluating Freedom of Information
- Communicating over the internet: voice-over-IP, videoconferencing and instant messaging
- An integrated decision-making framework for improving European air traffic management
- Reshaping policy and practice on citizens' access to justice in the UK and around the world
- UK public attitudes towards international aid
- Clinical Ethnography: anthropological research influencing clinical practice in the US, Europe, Bhutan and Myanmar
- The Gashaka Primate Project: conserving the world's rarest chimpanzees
- Travellers' tales from east to west
- Developing the study of health economics in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Improving legal and corporate understanding of informal practices in Russia
- Oilfield modelling for the hydrocarbon industry
- Informing innovation policy in Central and Eastern Europe
- Empirical research improving UK transport
- Internationalising Dutch Studies
- Ordinary lives in the German dictatorships: public understanding of and education on the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic
- Deepening public and media understanding of the 2012 French presidential election
- Nordic Noir: Engaging the public through the Scandinavian Crime Fiction Book Club
- The science of art
- Colonial film: moving images and the legacy of the British Empire
- The birth of the newspaper: understanding new media
- Exhibiting South African photography and the African Archive
- Limits to individual choice in health research involving human subjects
- The use of research-based teaching materials in political philosophy
- Creating neuropsychological assessments and services for Deaf patients with neurological impairments
- Elucidating the genetics of deafness leads to better diagnosis and clinical services
- The benefits of painting analysis for conservation and our cultural heritage
- Improving aircraft safety in icing conditions
- Alternatives to medication improve quality of life for children with epilepsy
- Communities and their heritages: the impact of research in participatory archives and other heritage practices
- Award-winning ultra-precision technology
- Forecasting the time and place of crime hotspots
- Trajectories of European Jewish identity: providing tools to engage with pasts unknown
- Improving the management of systemic sclerosis
- Fundus Autofluorescence Imaging transforms understanding of retinal disease
- Secret science: chemical and biological warfare research and policy in Britain
- New standards of care in lung cancer
- A safer and shorter treatment for thyroid cancer
- Global provision of enhanced wireless technologies through spinout Zinwave Ltd
- Practising religious toleration
- Taking Assyrian history beyond academia
- Contextualising Greek poetry and its performance
- The Bloomsbury Project: enriching public understanding of a vibrant centre of intellectual life
- Increasing readers' appreciation and understanding of English fiction
- Establishing a standard of care for advanced biliary tract cancer
- CT colonography for diagnosis of colorectal cancer
- Development of methods for the effective delivery of drugs to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Increased efficiency in turbomachinery design, manufacturing and performance
- Trimaran: A novel ship design
- Participatory mapping in action: new social enterprise Mapping for Change
- Improving quality of life for people with incontinence
- Reduction in UK carbon emissions through use of white light for street lighting
- Using transport investment to promote polycentric urban and regional structures
- Transcribe Bentham: a scholarly crowdsourcing initiative
- QRator: a digital dialogue on museum collections
- Developmental frameworks for professional pharmacy education improve the quality and safety of pharmaceutical health service delivery
- Better pharmaceuticals developed through UCL spinout company PolyTherics (an Abzena company)
- Molecular genetic characterisation of human and animal disorders led to improved diagnosis, prevention and treatment of inherited disorders
- Cloning of the P2Y receptor class leads to the development of important new therapies
- Supporting the development of a UK e-infrastructure strategy
- Percutaneous heart valve implantation: a non-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery
- Moorfields Safer Surgery System: new techniques transform glaucoma surgery
- New photo and special effects processing for photographers
- Supporting the growing UK space sector
- Catalysing industry
- Improving high-performance transistor technology
- Supporting commercial nanotechnology
- Understanding solar weather
- Modelling London riots
- Predicting and reducing excessive environmental noise in residential areas
- Radon exposure: informing global guidelines
- Changing perceptions of skateboarding
- Development of a Spatial Decision Support System for inward investors to London
- Cloning of the P2X3 receptor leads to the development of new painkillers
- Critical evaluation of the use of alternative therapies as clinical treatments
- Enhancing public awareness and engagement with evolutionary cell biology
- Development of new treatments for uveitis
- Better decision-making in drug manufacture
- An empirical approach to PFI
- Design governance in the built environment: Facilitating the use of design codes
- New approaches to reducing crime
- Fast, cheap and reliable banking: automated verification of over-the counter derivatives trading
- Encouraging children to be more active
- Effective computer security: the human-centred approach
- Adapting to the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage
- A healthy, low-carbon built environment
- A better fit for all
- Visualising the brain's communications networks
- Infrastructure for the urban poor in the Global South
- Gene therapy for immunodeficiency diseases
- Buccal midazolam: a new treatment for epileptic seizures
- Improving the management of empyema in children
- Natalizumab: a potent treatment for highly active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's Disease - recognition, quantification and treatment of non-motor features
- Identifying the evidence base to support psychological interventions for schizophrenia
- CATH structural classification of proteins aids drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry
- Antibody sequence and structure analysis assists biologic drug design
- Use of the structure of serum amyloid P, a modulator of amyloid formation
- Using evidence of black and minority ethnic underperformance to improve transparency, fairness and standards in medical examinations
- Improving the validity of autism spectrum disorder assessment
- Redesigning children's growth charts
- Genetics of eye disease
- Advances in gene therapy lead to successful treatment of haemophilia
- New treatments for patients with thalassaemia
- CardioQ: Improved surgical outcomes achieved through perioperative circulatory optimisation guided by oesophageal Doppler
- Tackling childhood obesity
- Advances in diagnosis and treatment of the haemolytic anaemias
- Amyloidosis and acute phase proteins: world-leading clinical service
- Treating patients with Hodgkin lymphoma when the standard treatment does not work
- Improving the quality of care of people with and at risk of cardiovascular diseases
- Creating a new system of environmental regulation, enforcement and sanctions
- The legality of torture
- Influencing law, policy and practice in jury trials in the UK and abroad
- Materialising the digital: The commercial, social and cultural benefits of new artistic forms
- Phyllida Barlow: Shaping a new understanding of sculpture
- Speeding up drug manufacture
- Greening the pharmaceutical industry
- MyStreet: Filmmakers collaborate with anthropologists to observe their own worlds
- A new approach to urban street planning and design
- Sustainable urban transport policy
- Economic modelling of long-term decarbonisation pathways: The policy impacts of the MARKAL-TIMES model family
- Infrastructure investment to promote sustainable economic growth
- A 'friendly alien' regenerates a city
- Detecting cancer using magnetic nanoparticles
- Informing national and international influenza vaccination policy
- vCJD prion infection: improving diagnosis and surveillance
- Finding alternatives to acute hospital admission in adult mental health
- New DNA diagnostics for Parkinson's disease
- Developing new diagnostic services and treatments for rare muscle diseases
- Using attachment research to improve the lives of vulnerable young children
- International Carotid Stenting Study influences national and international guidelines on the prevention of stroke resulting from carotid artery narrowing
- Improving pain relief for infants in hospital
- Improving policy for sexual and reproductive health
- Research-driven advances in surgical techniques lead to improved patient outcomes after Deep Brain Stimulation
- Development of new guidelines with regard to antibiotic prophylaxis prior to dental procedures for patients at risk of infective endocarditis
- Challenging oral health inequalities
- Development of conditionally immortalised cell lines as novel cell models of disease and for cell transplantation
- Inclusion of flexible sigmoidoscopy in the UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for invasive bladder cancer
- Improving management of schizophrenia and severe mental illnesses in general practice
- The National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)
- The Moorfields Regression Analysis improves the management of glaucoma
- Applying epidemiology to understand visual impairment in childhood: burden, aetiology, diagnosis, management and outcomes
- Using basic chemistry in manufacturing
- Promoting chemistry
- Understanding uncertainty in the power sector
- Colliding molecules
- More accurate, safer diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer
- Improving quality of life and safety for people with swallowing difficulties
- The dark side of the universe
- Tocilizumab - a new treatment for severe juvenile idiopathic arthritis in children
- Assessing lung function in children: the development of multi-ethnic, all-age lung growth charts
- The Find&Treat Project: improving control of tuberculosis in hard-to-reach groups
- Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue): improving outcomes in business, education, and other life settings
- Inborn errors of metabolism: diagnosis and treatment
- Establishing tacrolimus as the first choice calcineurin inhibitor for liver transplant recipients
- Novel brain imaging methods improve neurosurgical treatment for epilepsy
- Understanding HIV drug resistance informs national and international strategy on the treatment of HIV
- Designing new cancer drugs: the development of the pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimer platform
- Statistical Parametric Mapping
- Management of Acanthamoeba keratitis
- Self-management intervention for men with lower urinary tract symptoms
- A new pharmacological approach for treating ADHD
- Understanding the genetic basis of pain
- Acid-sensing ion channels: identifying pain mechanisms leads to development of potential treatments
- Improving judicial selection and training in the UK and abroad
- Africa's girls: promoting equality and empowerment
- Education and training for 14- to 19-year-olds: The case for a unified, inclusive system
- A better start for children: the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education project
- Child Trust Fund: the study that helped to deliver baby bonds
- Assessing quality of apprenticeships and work-related learning
- Voicebox: Facilitating science teaching in schools
- Storing hydrogen for green power
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- Music in schools: Boosting achievement, enthusiasm and participation
- Education plc: new philanthropy and old inequalities
- Infant crying and sleep research: soothing babies and helping parents
- Policy and tools to improve early reading in England
- Improving teaching and support for children with speech, language and communication needs
- Making Games: empowering pupils to design their own digital games
- Millennium Cohort Study: building a picture of a new generation
- Conceptualising school geography: curriculum change and teachers' work
- Education research and the Myanmar peace process
- Neonatal screening: educating parents and health professionals to improve children's health
- Pupil performance tables: finding fairer measures
- Shaping a national debate on international performance tables
- 'Sexting' and the school curriculum: research for gender equality in the digital world
- Shaping education aid and primary education for India
- Transforming lives and education in Sri Lanka
- Holocaust education: teaching the 'unthinkable'
- Rapid response reports: a quick but rigorous service for policymakers
- Systematic reviewing: building capacity for better-informed policy-making
- Teaching assistants: why they need to be deployed with care
- University fees and social mobility: a difficult balancing act