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.
You are cordially invited to attend the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies Annual Networking Event on Tuesday 24th November at 10:30am.
The event will take place at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus.
A schedule of speakers and details of registration can be found here.
Please contact cbis@imperial.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Each year, the World Economic Forum selects 40 outstanding young scientists from around the world to participate alongside global business and political leaders in the Annual Meeting of the New Champions. These scientists are selected from a wide range of disciplines and deliver updates on the latest trends and developments from various branches of science.
This year, Dr Kirill Veselkov and Dr Jia Li were nominated and successfully selected to join the Young Scientist programme in China. Both attended the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, which took place on 9-11th September in Dalian, People’s Republic of China.
Dr Kirill Veselkov, Lecturer in Computational Medicine, said ‘The event was truly impressive, and was attended by high profile guests from all key stakeholder groups in translational science including senior statesmen, policy makers, entrepreneurs and scientists, regulatory organisations and publishing groups. The panel sessions and live debates were very interesting and showcased the work of the brightest young scientists in the world. The meeting was also a fantastic opportunity for me to expand my network of international collaborators for the future.
Dr Jia Li, Lecturer in Computational Medicine wrote: “I was really honoured to be selected to attend this Annual Meeting and it was a fantastic and unforgettable experience. The format of the meeting was dynamic and interactive. As a basic scientist working in biomedical research, my favourite sessions at the conference were held at the Health Dome and the IdeasLab. In the Health Dome, we had interesting discussions about current and future health issues and policies and it was great to hear the opinions from people of different backgrounds. The presentations given at the Ideas Lab were impressive and I’d like to congratulate the Synthetic Biology team, who performed an excellent session there. After the meeting at Dalian, I was also invited to attend an IC alumni event in Beijing on the 12th September. It was a great pleasure to meet both IC alumni of 30 years, as well as prospective IC students.”
Key points to emerge from this year’s meeting included the announcement that a European Innovation Council (EIC) is likely to be created within the next few years to encourage applied, commercially-driven research, and the statement from NIH that there would be a continued shift from “project based” to “person based” funding with more grants being awarded to individual investigators.
Nature Publishing Group also announced plans for a double-blind peer-review model, with the possibility for authors to withhold their names and affiliations from reviewers. It is likely that an open, interactive peer-review process would be introduced to some of the Nature journals early next year.
Detailed dialogue was also held between all major stakeholders regarding the global economic downturn, the anticipated impact this will have on research funding over the next few years, and potential measures to counteract this slowdown.
Patient safety experts gathered for the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ) annual symposium last week. The CPSSQ is a partnership between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London and comprises a highly specialised set of research groups, working together to improve patient safety and the quality of healthcare services.
Read the full review here.
Researchers are calling for improvements to the way early miscarriage is diagnosed following a new study published in the BMJ. Surgery and Cancer’s Professor Tom Bourne is PI for the Diagnosis of Miscarriage (DOM) study.
Watch the video and read the full article here.
Congratulations to Mr Edward St John, Clinical Research Fellow supervised by Prof Ara Darzi, Prof Zoltan Takats and Mr Dan Leff, who has won a prestigious American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Award after his abstract was highly rated.
The prize money will go towards Mr St John attending the 2015 Breast Cancer Symposium, in San Antonio, Texas this December where he will present his abstract: Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry towards real time intraoperative oncological margin status determination in breast conserving surgery
The Division of Computational and Systems Medicine is delighted to present:
Professor Janusz Pawliszyn, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada
“Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME)”
Tuesday 29 September 2015 at 10 – 11am
Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building, South Kensington
Chaired By: Professor Zoltan Takats
For more information contact:
Professor Zoltan Takats, Dr Phyllis Quinn
Divestment: what are the options?
A Grantham Institute panel discussion on what fossil fuel divestment might offer as a tool to combat climate change.
Date: Thursday 8th Oct 2015
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: Room G16, Sir Alexander Fleming
Campus: South Kensington Campus
Congratulations to Nicholas Penney, a clinical research fellow supervised by Prof Elaine Holmes, Prof Ara Darzi and Mr Sanjay Purkayastha who has recently been awarded the Sutherland-Earl Clinical Research Fellowship 2015 by the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation.
The value of the award is £209,164 and will fund research toward his clinical study which is looking at the mechanisms and prognostication of type-2 diabetes resolution following bariatric surgery.
Congratulations to the six academics who were successful in this years academic promotions:
Senior Lecturer:
Reader:
Robert Dickinson (pictured) was featured in the College coverage of this years promotions for his move up to Senior Lecturer: Imperial celebrates as over 100 academics move up
Three future medical students starting this year, spent their gap year in Gambia working with the PROIFICA team which is part of the Digestive Diseases division.
PROIFICA (Prevention Of Liver Fibrosis & Cancer in Africa) is an EC funded project investigating liver cancer, which arises because of cirrhosis of the liver, a chronic condition that can stop the liver from functioning.
Congratulations to Prof Alun Davies who has just been appointed a Distinguished Fellow Member of the American Venous Forum. The AVF is dedicated to improving the health of patients suffering from disorders of the venous and lymphatic systems.
Distinguished Fellows are AVF Members who have enhanced AVF through volunteering for committees, volunteering as meeting Faculty, provided educational enhancement for trainees, and/or advanced venous disease by research or education.
Prof Davies has been invited to attend the 28th AVF Annual meeting in Florida next year for his award to be formally recognised in front of fellow AVF members.
Congratulations to three of the Vascular team who won prizes at the recent UIP conference in Seoul, Korea last month. The conference provided an opportunity to exchange ideas and explore strategies to address issues in the field of Phlebology.
Francine Heatley being awarded the 2015 Union Internationale de Phlébologie Award ‘In recognition of an exceptionally outstanding presentation at Seoul UIP 2015’ for the abstract entitled: EVRA (Early Venous Reflux Ablation) ulcer trial: A randomised clinical trial to compare early versus delayed endovenous treatment of superficial venous reflux in patients with chronic venous ulceration.
Roshan Bootun receiving the 4th Union Internationale de Phlébologie Research Fellowship/Kreussler Young Scientist’s Sclerotherapy Award 2015 from Dr Angelo Scuderi (President of UIP) and Dr Christian Freyberg (Chemische Fabrik Kreussler & Co. GmbH) for the project entitled: Randomised Controlled Trial of Compression Therapy following Foam Sclerotherapy.
Joseph Shalhoub receiving the 2015 Union Internationale de Phlébologie / Servier Research Fellowship from Dr Angelo Scuderi, the President of the UIP, and Dr Françoise Pitsch, Servier, for a project entitled: Metabonomic profiling for the identification of novel biomarkers in deep vein thrombosis.
Social media can play a huge role in promoting your research, so if you want to learn more here’s a useful how-to guide on getting started with utilising twitter to promote your research to a wide audience.
The guide looks at how twitter can benefit you as a researcher, getting started and judging whether the effort is worth it.
The study, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, suggests that communication within the theatre team can be impaired when music is playing. For instance, requests from a surgeon to a nurse for instruments or supplies were often repeated and there was qualitative evidence of frustration or tension within some of the teams
Sharon-Marie Weldon, (Senior Research Officer working in Surgery) a lead author on the study said: “Music can be helpful to staff working in operating theatres where there is often a lot of background noise, as well as other distractions – it can improve concentration. That said, we’d like to see a more considered approach, with much more discussion or negotiation over whether music is played, the type of music, and volume, within the operating teams.”