Congratulations to our very own Divisional Manager of Surgery Mr Tony Tarragona-Fiol who has passed his MSc in Health Policy with Merit.
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One of CSM’s PhD students, Munira Alsaleh has received an academic distinction award from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. This award is given to students who received an award at a conference or event.
Munira received her award after winning best poster award at a recent conference in Saudi Arabia. This extremely competitive award is open to students who receive a scholarship from any Saudi based organisation to undertake their studies in a UK-based university, college or institute.
Congratulations to Prof Justin Stebbing who has just been voted as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) council. He has been invited to the ASCI/AAP annual meeting to be held April 15-17 in Chicago at the Fairmont Hotel next year.
Justin has also been announced as co-Editor of Oncogene who publish the latest developments in cancer research.
Mr Christopher Lattimer (Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer) has won the Bronze Prize for best presentation at the American College of Phlebology this year.
Registration is now open for the NHLI Athena SWAN Lecture 2016 by Prof Fiona Watt FRS, taking place on Wednesday 20th of January.
Prof Watt will be talking about her exciting research – Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulation of Epidermal Stem Cell Fate – and also about her career path and how she got to where she is now. The talk is scheduled for 16:00 and will be followed by a reception where you will have a chance to talk to Prof Watt and mingle with your colleagues.
You can register for the event by e-mailing me (aino-maija.maskuniitty08@imperial.ac.uk).
Huge congratulations to Prof Ian Wilson who has been bestowed the highest honour the Society of Chromatherapy confers to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of separation science.
Read more in the latest issue of Chromatography today
Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson, from the Division of Gastroenterology has won honorary fellowship of the West African College of Physicians.
The accolade, previously only bestowed on African presidents, has been awarded for his education and research work in TB, HIV, Malaria, Ebola and Hepatitis B.
Take a look at what’s on offer from the Learning and Development Centre this November, with access to free software training via Lynda.com and courses including:
- Unconscious bias
- Writing up research for publications
- New and expectant dads at work
- PRINCE2 Project Management overview
You are invited to attend our Department’s first Athena SWAN Lecture, which will be delivered by Miss Clare Marx, President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception and we will be providing crèche facilities to facilitate those of you with childcare responsibilities to attend.
Please register in advance via our events page and email Kathryn Johnson k.johnson@imperial.ac.uk by the 27th November if you require crèche facilities.
The Software Sustainability Institute in collaboration with ARCHER and Women in HPC is organising the first Software Carpentry workshop for Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) in the UK. The event will take place at the University of Manchester on 14-15 December 2015.
The course is aimed at female postgraduate students, researchers and engineers who are familiar with basic programming concepts (like loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions) but need help to translate this knowledge into practical tools to help them work more productively.
Apart from learning a set of useful skills the participants will have a unique opportunity to network and discuss their experiences in working in computational research area. More details and registration:
http://apawlik.github.io/2015-12-wise-uk/
Anna Malczewska, an external PhD Student from Poland (funded by a research fellowship of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society) worked with the Clinical Trials Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, in holding a NET Cancer Day event on the 3rd November 2015, to raise awareness of neuroendocrine cancers around the world.
There was a fantastic turnout for our 2nd Departmental meeting last week, which included attendance from all Heads of Division. The meeting covered, research strategy, Athena SWAN, shortlisting and dealing with bullying and harassment.
For those who missed it you can view the slides from the meeting on our Departmental Athena SWAN webpage.
Congratulations go to Professor Nigel Gooderham who has been announced as Assistant Provost for Academic Promotions.
Congratulations also go to Julia Anderson who received the prestigious Imperial College Medal at the Albert Hall last week in recognition o
f her meritorious service to the College.
Prof Alison McGregor was on hand to make sure the robes and hat were all in place!
Professor Jeremy Nicholson has been named 16th in the Analytical Scientist’s Top 100 most influential people in the world of analytical science. Prof Zoltan Takats and Prof Ian Wilson also made the list.
Click on the link above to see what they all had to say about it.
Dr Anthony Gordon was an invited speaker at the plenary “Hot Topics” session at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine on October 7th in Berlin, presenting “Vasopressin vs Noradrenaline as Initial therapy in Septic Shock: a randomised controlled trial”
Read the fascinating news coverage of the IKnife’s involvement in pioneering surgery using lasers to remove a brain tumour from a patient who was awake (and singing) throughout the procedure.