News archive 2005

13 Oct 2005	Students' Union win ‘Investor' status
King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) has become the first part of the College to be awarded the Investors in People standard.
12 Oct 2005	Licensing agreement brings new diabetes treatments closer
The translation of research by King's College London Professor Mark Peakman* into treatments for type 1 diabetes moved a step closer this week, with an announcement from UK Biotech firm Avidex that it has licensed exclusive rights from King's to develop products that recognise a molecule associated with the disease.
11 Oct 2005	College makes over 55 new appointments
In January, to enhance further its academic standing, the College took out three full pages in The Times Higher to advertise more than 60 posts – including some replacements for existing vacancies – across all the College's schools.
10 Oct 2005	The Earthquake in Asia
The Principal, Professor Rick Trainor, writes
07 Oct 2005	Damilola Taylor Room opens for medical students
Damilola Taylor's father opened a study room for medical students from deprived areas of London on 6 October. The Damilola Taylor Room at King's College London offers students on the Extended Medical Degree programme at the College an informal space to study and relax in between their lectures and practical classes.
04 Oct 2005	King's second in student survey
A new league table, compiled by internet search engine Yell.com, ranks Britain's top 20 universities according to the number of ‘social' services they offer students, instead of looking at more conventional measures such as quality of teaching, student-staff ratios and graduate prospects.
04 Oct 2005	King's academics in finals
The Times Higher Education Supplement has announced the shortlisted finalists for its inaugural awards.
03 Oct 2005	Sunday Times League Tables
King's College London was placed in thirteenth overall position in the Sunday Times UK University League Table, published yesterday (October 2nd) in its ‘University Guide'. This is the same position as the College held in 2004.
30 Sep 2005	Natural disaster summit
An event to mark the United Nation's International Day for Disaster Reduction will be held on Monday 3 October from 4-8pm in the Great Hall, King's College London, Strand.
27 Sep 2005	King's student wins national award
Helinor Johnston from King's College London has won The GlaxoSmithKline Award for the Best Pharmacology Student of the year. This national award is one of the Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards, Britain's most important prizes for science and technology undergraduates.
23 Sep 2005	36 King's academics appointed as MRC Experts
The following academics from King's have been appointed as members of the MRC College of Experts.
22 Sep 2005	National Student Survey
Commenting on the results published today of the first National Student Survey, which forms part of the new Teaching Quality Information (TQI) website, also launched today, Professor Phil Whitfield, Vice-Principal (Students), said, ‘The College is pleased to note the results of the important NSS. It will use these results, along with locally generated student assessments, to continue to improve the student-related facilities of the College and enhance the total student experience.
22 Sep 2005	£2.5m boost for research into neurodegenerative disease
The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced £2.5m of funding to establish a new centre for research into neurodegeneration, in partnership with King's College London. The MRC Centre for Neurodegenerative Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London will open later this year and will be directed by Professor Brian Anderton, a leading expert in Alzheimer's disease.
22 Sep 2005	Major boost to UK asthma and allergy research as new Centre funded
A new research centre to study asthma and allergy is to be opened later this year at King's College London and Imperial College London thanks to funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Asthma UK.
21 Sep 2005	New Unit to measure pain
Doctors may soon be able to truly assess how much pain their patients are in thanks to a unique scientific collaboration between King's College Hospital (KCH), King's College London and Pfizer Limited.
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