News archive 2005

09 May 2005	Controlling weight gain could improve benefits of quitting smoking
Controlling a person's weight after they have given up smoking could help maximise the benefits for their lungs, suggests a study in this week's issue of The Lancet.
20 Apr 2005	King's publication awards
Three of the College's publications have won prestigious higher education awards.
19 Apr 2005	King's 6th in Guardian league table
King's College London has been ranked 6th out of 122 in overall UK university rankings produced by the Guardian today. The league table assesses teaching quality, staff-student ratios and graduate job prospects.
08 Apr 2005	Depression overtakes back pain for incapacity benefit claims
Common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, now account for more incapacity benefit claims than musculoskeletal conditions like low back pain. Dr Max Henderson from the Institute of Psychiatry and colleagues discuss this issue in an editorial in this week's BMJ.
04 Apr 2005	Germ warfare in cancer
Can bacteria cause cancer? An article in Nature Reviews Microbiology describes how evidence is accumulating to suggest that bacteria that cause persistent infections can directly promote tumour formation.
04 Apr 2005	ADHD: Not just for kids
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is not just a condition of childhood but can continue into adult life, causing people real problems in their everyday lives.
31 Mar 2005	King's spin-out company brings £1m to College
A King's College London drug discovery and development spin-out company, seeking new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, has today floated on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market), bringing a £1 million windfall for the College.
22 Mar 2005	New Vice Principal
Professor Robert Lechler appointed new Vice-Principal.
22 Mar 2005	New Bursaries for 2006
King's will be investing approximately £1.2 million into new bursaries for undergraduate students who join the College in 2006. The income will come from increased tuition fees which will be charged from 2006 when up-front fees for all home and EU undergraduate students will be abolished.
21 Mar 2005	Call for a new model of imprisonment
If we are serious about realising the Government's vision of building a safe, just and tolerant society we need to develop a new model of imprisonment, the UK's only Professor of Prison Studies, Andrew Coyle, will argue in his King's College London inaugural lecture on Tuesday 22 March at 6 pm.
21 Mar 2005	Health Minister visits King's
Minister of Health, Rosie Winterton, is to open the newly refurbished Maurice Wohl General Dental Practice at King's College on Monday 21 March 2005.
09 Mar 2005	King's achieves UK first in islet transplantation
A multidisciplinary team at King's College Hospital has successfully achieved islet cell¹ transplantation in a Type 1 diabetes patient. This breakthrough has major implications for diabetes sufferers and has never before been achieved in the United Kingdom. The patient, a 61 year old man, now no longer needs insulin injections, following three transplants of islet cells isolated from cadaveric donor pancreases.
09 Mar 2005	King's expertise goes online
The Public Relations Department has launched the College's first online Directory of Experts (www.kcl.ac.uk/experts). It includes details of staff that are able to speak to the media on a wide variety of subjects.
25 Feb 2005	Major funding success for Institute of Psychiatry
The Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College London is to receive the highest number of grants and the largest amount of money from the MRC and the Department of Health as part of their £5.3m package for brain science and mental health research. Five research projects at the IoP have received a total of £950,000 in funding.
11 Feb 2005	Principal delivers the Commemoration Oration
What are Universities For? was the title of a keynote speech given by Professor Rick Trainor, Principal of King's College London on Thursday 10 February. His lecture, the Commemoration Oration, examined the past, present and future role of universities and the contribution made by King's College London to the sector.
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