News archive 2010

29 Jan 2010	Major medical review following King’s study
Three of five studies analysed in a recently published Cochrane Library Review into eating and drinking in labour were conducted by King’s College London researchers and involved women giving birth at St Thomas’ Hospital.
28 Jan 2010	King’s joins pan-European training partner
King’s School of Biomedical & Health Sciences has secured funding for a €3.5 million pan-European PharmaTrain training grant – matched in kind by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations to integrate Drug Development Science MSc programmes across the EU.
27 Jan 2010	European project to reduce HIV transmission
King’s College London will be the coordinating institution for a new project  involving 31 partner organisations across Europe as well as in South Africa, the USA and Ukraine, aimed at developing anti-HIV products to reduce the transmission of HIV by sexual intercourse.
26 Jan 2010	Nanotechnology research advances
Scientists at King’s College London and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany are advancing nanotechnology research with their latest experimental and theoretical modelling techniques.
25 Jan 2010	Europe Week debates
The King’s European Society hosts its annual week of student-run debates on European current affairs this week (25-29 January) in collaboration with the School of Arts & Humanities and the Jean Monnet Fund.
22 Jan 2010	German graduates win University of London prizes
The Department of German is delighted to announce that two King's students, who graduated with a BA in German in 2009, have been awarded two of the most prestigious prizes the University of London offers.
21 Jan 2010	King’s partners Cheltenham Festivals
King’s College London and the Cheltenham Festivals celebrated their new partnership at a special launch event on 20 January in the Great Hall, Strand Campus, attended by over 150 guests.  King’s will partner all four of this year’s festivals - science, jazz, literature and music.
20 Jan 2010	Regulator commissions nursing research
Professor Peter Griffiths and Dr Sarah Robinson of the National Nursing Research Unit (NNRU) at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s have been commissioned by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to analyse the potential risks and benefits relating to the regulation of healthcare support workers in the UK.
20 Jan 2010	‘Minority ethnic middle classes not treated as equal’
A new exploratory study, the findings of which will be launched today (20 January) at the Department for Education and Professional Studies, King’s College London, will shed light on the little-considered case of the minority ethnic middle classes in Britain.
19 Jan 2010	Largest drug discovery project launched
An international consortium of scientists, led by H. Lundbeck A/S and King's College London, has launched one of the largest ever research academic-industry collaboration projects to find new methods for the development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression.
18 Jan 2010	Palliative care service assessment
A team at the Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation at Kings have completed a trial investigating the effectiveness of a new palliative care service in MS. The trial found that Palliative care services offered to patients with conditions other than cancer could save the NHS millions of pounds and plug a gap in service provision.
18 Jan 2010	Institute of Psychiatry welcomes new Dean
The Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) and King’s College London ushered in the New Year with the appointment of a new Dean, Professor Shitij Kapur. Professor Kapur takes on this role following a two-year tenure as Vice Dean (Research) of the Institute.
15 Jan 2010	King’s Summer School 2010
King’s College London’s Summer School offers students the opportunity to study at the heart of London, with a range of new courses on offer for 2010. Browse the website now to find a course that suits you!
13 Jan 2010	Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Lecture
His Excellency Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, gave a keynote lecture entitled ‘Converging interests of Turkey and the UK in an enlarged EU and beyond’ at the Edmond J. Safra Theatre, Strand Campus last night.
13 Jan 2010	‘Armed Forces face personnel cuts’
The growing costs of UK defence capabilities, combined with cuts in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) budget as a result of the nation's fiscal crisis, will make it impossible to preserve current numbers of service personnel and front-line capabilities, according to a Future Defence Review Working Paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
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