News archive 2010

17 Sep 2010	New clue to diabetic heart disease discovered
Scientists from King's College London have identified a molecule that could help predict type 2 diabetes and identify diabetics that are most vulnerable to heart and circulatory disease.
17 Sep 2010	King's academic to lead STEM Initiative
Louise Archer, Professor of Sociology of Education, Department of Education & Professional Studies, King’s College London, will lead a coordinating team of educational researchers for the Targeted Research Initiative on Science and Mathematics Education (TISME). The initiative will help find new ways to encourage children and young people to greater engagement with science and mathematics.
16 Sep 2010	THE/Thomson Reuters university league table
A new university world league table has been produced by the THE in partnership with Thomson Reuters, following the end of the relationship between THE and QS, which for a number of years had produced the well established THE/QS world university rankings table.
15 Sep 2010	King’s hosts Festival of Learning
King’s College London, in collaboration with the University of Warwick, yesterday hosted the Festival of Learning, the culmination of the King’s Warwick Project drawing on the outcomes as well as wider examples of innovation in teaching and learning from other universities.
15 Sep 2010	Public says lock up fewer children
Nearly two thirds of the public do not want to see children locked up behind bars until at least the age of 12, rising to 14 for young people convicted of a non-violent crime, according to a new poll. The poll supports the findings of a major new research report by Out of Trouble profiling around 6,000 young people in custody. Punishing Disadvantage has been written by Dr Jessica Jacobson, Professor Mike Hough and colleagues at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.
15 Sep 2010	Extending the life of the transplant
Experts from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation at King’s have revealed exciting new scientific developments for people with an organ transplant, intended to help prevent rejection of the new organ and extend its life. Watch a video of the research.
13 Sep 2010	Genes for Myopia discovered
Researchers from the Department of Twin Research at King’s College London have identified genes associated with two common eye problems, myopia and glaucoma. The findings have been published in this week’s edition of Nature Genetics.
12 Sep 2010	King's wins 'University of the Year'
King's College London has been awarded the title of 'University of the Year 2010/11' from The Sunday Times, one of the most prestigious and influential newspapers in the world. The accolade, won by Oxford last year and Loughborough in 2008, is designed to recognise all-round excellence, encompassing a range of aspects of research, teaching, and the student experience.
09 Sep 2010	Expert heads vocational review
Education Secretary Michael Gove today announced a major independent review of vocational education for 14- to 19-year-olds, to be led by Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, Department of Management, King’s College London.
08 Sep 2010	King’s rises in world league table
King’s has risen two places to 21st position in the world in the 2010 QS international world rankings, formerly the Times Higher Education/QS rankings.
07 Sep 2010	Largest ever Epigenetics project launched
One of the most ambitious large-scale projects in Human Genetics has been launched today: Epitwin will capture the subtle epigenetic signatures that mark the differences between 5,000 twins on a scale and depth never before attempted, providing key therapeutic targets for the development of drug treatments.
06 Sep 2010	Genetic link for ALS risk confirmed
Genetic variations on a specific chromosome appear to play a role in a fatal motor neuron condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, research has found. The study by the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London was published in the online edition of The Lancet Neurology.
06 Sep 2010	Nightingale events at the Wellcome Collection
The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s is to hold two events at the Wellcome Collection this month – ‘Handle with Care: Next Generation Nightingales’ and ‘Navigating Nightingale’.
02 Sep 2010	World’s first summit on citizen cyberscience
The world’s first summit on citizen cyberscience is taking place at King’s College London today and tomorrow (2-3 September). Citizen cyberscience is a growing trend where ordinary people use their computers and the world wide web to contribute in meaningful ways to an increasingly wide range of scientific and research challenges.
31 Aug 2010	Partnership with The Prostate Cancer Charity
Men with prostate cancer who experience fatigue as a result of treatment for prostate cancer will soon be given greater support to help them cope as a result of a government grant awarded to King’s College London and The Prostate Cancer Charity.
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