Trace metals can be essential to health or environmental hazards. In a major new initiative, academics from across King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine have teamed up to promote research into the role of trace metals in health and disease, by forming the London Metallomics Consortium with colleagues from all the London universities. Following success in obtaining funding from the Wellcome Trust and King’s to set up the London Metallomics Facility, the Consortium invites you to its inaugural symposium.

Speakers:

• Dr John Viles, Queen Mary University of London (Amyloid β assembly and metal ions in Alzheimer’s disease)
• Professor Phil Blower, King's  College London (PET metallomics: in vivo imaging of trace metal trafficking with radioisotopes)
• Professor Guy Rutter, Imperial College London (Zinc in pancreatic islet biology and diabetes)
• Dr Po-Wah So, King's College London (Iron in the ageing brain)
• Dr Ian Mudway, King's College London (Non-occupational exposures to inhaled metals: Do they matter?)
• Dr Maciej Garbowski, University College London (Non-transferrin bound iron – methodological challenges and future perspectives)
• Professor Paul Sharp, King's College London (Assessing mineral bioavailability from plant-based foods)

Please note this event is open to invited scientists and members of participating Colleges only.