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There have been many recent significant Institute achievements in the past year, some attracting major media attention. This page includes some of the highlights.
Staffing news
- Early Career Promotions announced for 2020
- Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Fellow promotions announced for 2019-20
- Professor Olga Ciccarelli is appointed as the Head of the Department of Neuroinflammation
- Professor Jonathan Schott named ARUK’s first Chief Medical Officer
- IoN achieves Silver Athena SWAN award
Staffing awards and prizes
- Two UCL Professors elected new Fellows of the Royal Society
- Professors Mary Reilly and Bart De Strooper elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Michael Hanna and Professor Rob Brownstone join prestigious academy fellowship
- Professor Michael Hanna elected to Council of Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Neil Burgess made a 2020 William James Fellow by the Association for Psychological Science
- Two PhD students awarded UCL’s Jon Driver Prize for outstanding young neuroscientists
- Professor Ray Dolan wins Royal Society award
- BPS honours researcher Stephen Fleming for research into how the brain becomes self-aware
- Professor Giampietro Schiavo elected member of the Venetian Institute of Science Literature and Art
- Royal College of Physicians Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2019: Distance Learning in Clinical Neurology
- Dr Marc Aurel Busche named as Future Leaders Fellow
- Co-Heads of Department Professors Sarah Tabrizi and Nick Fox awarded Alexander Morison medal in successive years
- Professor Sarah Tabrizi receives Yahr award at World Congress of Neurology 2019
- UCL supported startup Kalgera awarded £100k by Nesta and joins the Open Up 2020 Challenge
- Dr Rimona Weil awarded Vera Down grant to assist research into neurological disorders
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology chooses Eoin Mulroy for Class of 2022 Edmond J. Safra Fellow
- Dr Mina Kim receives MS Society’s Innovative Award to translate research into early diagnosis of MS
- Dr Sonia Gandhi awarded new fellowship
- Dr Adam Liston awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Research team wins award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Disease
- Five UCL academics awarded ERC Starting Grants
Three UK DRI researchers awarded prestigious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award for collaboration
David Blundred, ION Education Manager, wins Personal Excellence Award at this summer’s One UCL Awards
COVID research
DRI, centres and funding news
- The Garfield Weston Foundation donate £5 million to world-leading neuroscience centre at UCL
- New world-leading facility for UCL Neuroscience gains planning approval for £281.6m state-of-the-art facility, which will be home to UCL Neuroscience.
- Launch of the UCL QS Motor Neuron Disease Centre
- UCL research into genetic therapies for dementia boosted by donation from The Sigrid Rausing Trust
- State of the Art 7 Telsa MRI scanner installed at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
- Artist for new IoN-DRI facility on Grays Inn Road appointed
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging Celebrates 25 years at 12 Queen Square
Parkinson’s disease research at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology gets £19m boost
Queen Square events
- Inaugural lectures February 2020: Professors James Kilner and Ludvic Zrinzo
- 20th annual Queen Square Symposium 2019
- IoN Annual Address 2019
- Mary Sweeney Memorial Lecture
- Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases 10th Anniversary Symposium