Imperial midwives secured HEE/NIHR pre-doctoral clinical academic fellowships in the 2018 cohort. The HEE/NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship scheme is a two-year award aiming to equip clinical professionals with the skills and expertise required for their follow-on doctoral application, whilst remaining active in the clinic. Following a rigorous selection process assessing candidates’ suitability, commitment and […]

Researchers at Imperial have identified a unique genetic signature that could form the basis of a diagnostic test for Kawasaki Disease (KD). The study, published in the journal JAMA Paediatrics, and supported by the NIHR Imperial BRC Infection & Antimicrobial Resistance Theme, demonstrates for the first time a pattern of genes switched on or off […]

Pancreatic cancer has one of the bleakest survival statistics: in the UK, almost 80% of patients die within a year of diagnosis, and < 1% survive for 10 years. The disease is sex-agnostic, with similar incidence and survival rates between men and women, which have been gradually increasing over the last decade. The vast majority […]

Dr Nir Grossman from the Department of Medicine has been awarded the 2018 Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation for describing a technique capable of non-invasively stimulating the brain’s electric fields. The technique applies small overlapping electric fields to the scalp, and could one day help patients with neurological conditions for whom first-line treatments do […]

A new partnership that brings together academics and pharmaceutical expertise has been established to focus on developing a gene therapy for cystic fibrosis patients. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease caused by defects in a single gene. The gene affected by CF controls the movement of salt and water in and out of cells. […]