Print versionNews archive 2010
| 26 Aug 2010 | King’s Health Partners appointment |
| Professor Simon Lovestone, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, has been appointed as Director of Research to King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). | |
| 26 Aug 2010 | Intervention lowers teenage drinking rates |
| Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, have found that a school-based, personalised intervention programme delivered by school staff can significantly decrease teenage drinking and binge drinking. | |
| 25 Aug 2010 | Clinical trial findings challenge clinical practice |
| Patients with coronary artery disease undergoing angioplasty do not benefit from having their circulation artificially supported with a balloon pump as a preventative measure during angioplasty, according to the first randomised trial studying the practice and published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). | |
| 24 Aug 2010 | Chairman of Marjan Centre appointed |
| Major General Peter Davies, CB, former Director-General of the RSPCA, has taken up a new appointment within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, to lead a ground-breaking initiative. Major General Davies is now Chairman of the Management Committee of the newly formed Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation (MCSCC). | |
| 23 Aug 2010 | Second Wellcome Drug Discovery award success |
| Dr Jonathan Corcoran, Senior Research Fellow in the Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases at King’s, has received a second Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery award, valued at over £3.6 million over 42 months. Jonathan will lead a team to develop new drugs that can be taken orally to treat spinal cord injury (SCI). | |
| 19 Aug 2010 | Student satisfaction increases |
| In the 2010 National Student Survey, published on 18 August, students’ overall satisfaction with their studies at King’s increased from 83 per cent to 86 per cent, while the national satisfaction score remained at 82 per cent. | |
| 18 Aug 2010 | Stories of the Strand |
| A new collaborative project at King’s College London aims to bring together the diverse groups of people who live and work along one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, through a combination of life-writing and web 2.0 technologies. The College has been based at the Strand, adjacent to Somerset House, since 1829. | |
| 17 Aug 2010 | Materials scientist to give RI Lecture |
| Renowned materials scientist Dr Mark Miodownik, in the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at King’s, has been invited to give the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. The Royal Institution (Ri) Christmas Lectures have been inspiring children and adults alike since 1825. They are Ri’s biggest and most public facing, fun-filled science events for young people. | |
| 13 Aug 2010 | King’s student's Iraq memoir published |
| King’s War Studies student Kevin Ivison’s first book Red One - A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on the 19 August. Red One is a memoir of his time as a counter-terrorist bomb disposal operator in Iraq. | |
| 11 Aug 2010 | Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan |
| Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London have developed a pioneering new method of diagnosing autism in adults. For the first time, a quick brain scan that takes just 15 minutes can identify adults with autism with over 90 per cent accuracy. The method could lead to the screening for autism spectrum disorders in children in the future. | |
| 09 Aug 2010 | New Domesday database launched online |
| PASE Domesday, a database of Domesday Book linked to mapping resources, has been launched online today by a research team based at King’s College London and the University of Cambridge. | |
| 06 Aug 2010 | £4.5m Fellowship award |
| Professor Randolph Noelle, Professor of Immunotherapy and Transplant Science in the MRC Centre for Transplantation, has been awarded a Principal Research Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust. The Fellowship is the most prestigious of the Wellcome Trust’s personal awards and designed to provide long-term support for researchers of international standing. | |
| 05 Aug 2010 | Biomarkers for CAD risk identified |
| A world-wide consortium of researchers, including scientists from the Twin Research Unit at King’s College London, has identified 59 novel regions of the human genome that are involved in lipid metabolism. The concentrations of lipids, such as cholesterols, in the blood are the most important risk factors for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). | |
| 04 Aug 2010 | 'All the King’s Men' début at Fringe Festival |
| A dynamic group of talented male students are making their Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this month. All The King's Men were only established in September last year by freshers at King’s College London who wanted to have fun with music. The group, an all male acappella singing society, whose musical range stretches from the Bee Gees to the Black Eyed Peas, has recently released their debut eponymous album. | |
| 03 Aug 2010 | Nightingale Choir to perform on BBC Radio 4 |
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