Media coverage January 2026

Friday 09 January – Friday 23 January

• BBC News took a deep dive into the gut microbiome’s influence on ageing, with Hugh Pym taking a trip to St Mary’s to speak to Mr James Kinross and explore the topic.
• Experts from Brain Sciences, MDR and Surgery & Cancer spoke to ITV News about health anxiety, Mail on Sunday about bone health, and the Daily Mirror about a proposed social media ban for children in the UK.
• Life-saving therapies are being delayed as research funding dries up (The Guardian) – Professor David Pinato is featured in relation to mRNA cancer vaccine trial.
• Alan Rickman’s tragic seven-word plea to doctors after cancer diagnosis (Mirror) – Imperial research led by Professor George Hanna
• Almost half of over-50s now have the dreaded bone disease (Mail on Sunday) – Dr Richie Abel

Friday 09 January – Friday 23 January

• The annual State of Patient Safety Report was launched, with IGHI colleagues securing coverage in the Daily Telegraph, Mail Online and The Guardian.

• Why we’re getting breakfast wrong and the best time to eat it (The Telegraph) – Mr James Kinross is quoted.

Read Department of Surgery and Cancer – Media coverage January 2026 in full

Congratulations to Professor Tom Williams on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Congratulations to Dr Natalie Shenker on her recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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S&C is proud to have had several winners at the ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancers Congress 2025.

Congratulations to Dr. Pasquale Lombardi on winning the Merit Travel Grant and Best Abstract Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Aria Torkpour on winning the Merit Travel Grant and Best Abstract Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Leonardo Brunetti on winning the Merit Travel Grant.

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Congratulations to Professor George Hanna on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Congratulations to Professor Brendan Delaney on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Read Funding successes: Q4 2024 in full

Congratulations to Professor Hashim Ahmed on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Congratulations to S&C’s Prof Brendan Delaney on his two new roles at Imperial. He becomes a formal member of IX and Chair of the Faculty of Medicine’s new AI in Healthcare Committee. He expands on these new roles beow. (more…)

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On a warm Thursday evening, July 11^th, 2024, the Park Life café in Harrow buzzed with excitement as residents gathered for the instalment of a groundbreaking medical talk series. This event, part of an ongoing partnership between Imperial College London and the café, showcased Prof. James Flanagan’s presentation on the innovative Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS).

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Read A New Approach to Early Ovarian Cancer Detection: Professor James M.Flanagan Presents Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS) at Park Life Café in full

Congratulations to Professor Hector Keun on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Dr Raha West, from the Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, discusses her recent global collaboration with the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine on a study investigating the effect of sleep on brain performance, the resulting publication and presenting the findings at a conference in South Korea.

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Congratulations to Professor Alun Davies on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.* (more…)

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Congratulations to Prof Axel Behrens on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

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Read Funding successes: Q4 2023 in full

Congratulations to Dr Sung Pil Hong on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*
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Read Funding successes: Q3 2023 in full

Congratulations to Dominic Marshall, a Clinical Research Fellow in AMPIC, who has been successfully awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship for his PhD titled “Identification of Novel Phenotypes of Acute Lung Injury using Multimodal Longitudinal data”.

In this blog, he shares what he learned from the application process and what he would advise others applying for similar awards. (more…)

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Congratulations to Professor Simak Ali on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*
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