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October 2020 | ||
 Queen Mary joins alliance offering 20,500 extra COVID-19 tests a day12 October 2020London's leading life science and academic institutions have united to respond in an unprecedented way to the coronavirus pandemic by ramping up diagnostic testing capacity for the UK. The Testing Alliance, set up by life science cluster MedCity, brings together world-leading universities, healthcare institutes, industry and pathology service providers. They ... [more] | ||
September 2020 | ||
 Queen Mary hosts new Organ-on-a-chip Research symposia22 September 2020Queen Mary University of London has launched a new e-symposia series with research presentations related to organ-on-a-chip and other predictive in vitro models. The symposia are part of the UK Organ-on-a-chip Technologies Network which is funded via the Technology Touching Life scheme and directed by Prof Hazel Screen and Prof ... [more] | ||
 Women in Innovation Awards 2020/2116 September 2020Innovate UK is offering 10 Women in Innovation Awards to female entrepreneurs across the UK. The winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support. The aim of this competition is to find women with exciting, innovative ideas and ambitious plans that will inspire others. ... [more] | ||
 Specialist centres hold key to keeping heart attack victims alive, major study shows7 September 2020A trial led by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health researchers looking at the effect of stem cell therapy in treating heart attack patients has revealed the importance of specialist centres to extending life. In the biggest pan-European trial of stem cell therapy to date, researchers found that 3.5 ... [more] | ||
August 2020 | ||
 Breast screening women in their forties could save lives13 August 2020Breast screening women aged 40-49 reduces breast cancer mortality, with minimal increased overdiagnosis, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London that looked at data from 160,000 women. The UK, along with many other countries, has a breast cancer screening programme offering mammography to women aged 50–70 years ... [more] | ||
 Funding awarded for data-driven healthcare in East London12 August 2020UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded funding to Queen Mary University of London, as part of the Barts Life Sciences partnership, to develop a proposal for data-driven next generation healthcare in Whitechapel. Led by Barts Life Sciences, the project will harness artificial intelligence and data technology to provide better ... [more] | ||
July 2020 | ||
 Broadening cancer gene testing is cost effective and could prevent millions more cancer cases worldwide20 July 2020Screening entire populations for breast and ovarian cancer gene mutations could prevent millions more cancer cases across the world compared to current clinical practice, according to an international study led by Queen Mary University of London. The research also shows that it is cost effective in high and upper-middle income ... [more] | ||
 Discovery of protective Alzheimer’s gene and develop rapid drug-testing platform13 July 2020A gene has been discovered that can naturally suppress the signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in human brain cells, in research led by Queen Mary University of London. The scientists have also developed a new rapid drug-screening system for treatments that could potentially delay or prevent the disease. The main ... [more] | ||
June 2020 | ||
 Using Organs-on-chips technology to accelerate COVID-19 research15 June 2020The Queen Mary & Emulate Organs-on-Chips Centre is involved in a new initiative to use miniaturised living systems with human cells, known as organ-chips, in the fight against COVID-19. As part of this initiative, Emulate, Inc have donated blank Organ-Chips to the UK Organ-on-a-chip Technologies Network to support the development of ... [more] | ||
New antibody technology for monitoring MS patients may have potential in COVID-19 testing5 June 2020A new study led by Queen Mary University of London has demonstrated the effectiveness of using a novel light technology to monitor the presence of anti-drug antibodies in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), which can lead to drug resistance and treatment failure. The researchers say that they have also ... [more] | ||
May 2020 | ||
You can still sign up to study to identify highest risk factors for COVID-1922 May 2020Scientists are calling on the public to sign up to a new study which will help identify who is most at risk of contracting COVID-19 and why some people become more ill than others with the disease. The COVIDENCE UK study, led by Queen Mary University of London, opens today [... [more] | ||
BBC Radio 4's Nick Robinson interviews Professor Sir Mark Caulfield13 May 2020This morning on BBC Radio 4 Today's Programme @BBCr4today Nick Robinson interviewed Professor Sir Mark Caulfield from the The William Harvey Research Institute - Barts and The London. Why do some people become very "ill with this infection & others have mild or asymptomatic courses"? "We want to read the whole ... [more] | ||
 New study to identify highest risk factors for COVID-191 May 2020Scientists are calling on the public to sign up to a new study which will help identify who is most at risk of contracting COVID-19 and why some people become more ill than others with the disease. The COVIDENCE UK study, led by Queen Mary University of London, opens today [... [more] | ||
April 2020 | ||
 Queen Mary secure new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships29 April 2020Researchers from Queen Mary’s School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Dentistry have been awarded two new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) to support innovation and knowledge transfer with industry partners. The new KTPs, which represent funding of over £500,000, will support engineering projects aimed at developing new ... [more] | ||
 On Air! BioMin Toothpaste to feature in BBC Four documentary at 8pm9 April 2020BioMin, created by researchers at Queen Mary and Imperial College, London, will be featured in a documentary on toothpaste due to air on 9 April at 8pm. Tune in at the link below or watch live at 8pm. | ||
February 2020 | ||
 'Irrefutable evidence' that lung cancer screening works5 February 2020Professor Stephen Duffy, Professor of Cancer Screening at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, and Professor John Field, from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, comment on recently published results from a lung cancer screening trial. Currently, lung cancer kills more people than ... [more] | ||
 Pinpointing rare disease mutations3 February 2020A new study from Queen Mary University of London and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute has uncovered the genes essential for supporting life, which could help researchers to identify mutations responsible for rare childhood diseases. Identifying which genes are linked to a rare disease is one of the most difficult ... [more] | ||
January 2020 | ||
Queen Mary opens Organs-on-Chips Centre for advancements in medical research and drug development17 January 2020A new research centre which aims to revolutionise medical research and drug development using microengineered Organs-on-Chips has opened at Queen Mary University of London. Organs-on-Chips contain tiny hollow channels lined by living human cells that recreate the microenvironment experienced by cells within the human body. As miniaturised living systems with ... [more] | ||
 Queen Mary Dentistry Professor finds a low-cost, non-intrusive solution to save children’s teeth16 January 2020A study led by Queen Mary’s Professor of Dental Public Health, Professor Cynthia Pine, has identified a low-cost and low-intensity intervention technique that could prevent tooth decay for thousands of children across the UK. Nearly a quarter of five-year-olds in the UK experience tooth decay. During 2017-18, 33,779 children aged ... [more] | ||
 Bacon – the salt mine on your breakfast table13 January 2020Survey results published today by Action on Salt (based at Queen Mary University of London) have confirmed bacon’s unwelcome status as the second biggest contributor to salt in the UK diet. Action on Salt’s experts are urging the newly formed government to launch a comprehensive salt reduction programme, ... [more] | ||
 Study sheds new light on how cells interact with their surroundings7 January 2020Researchers from Queen Mary University of London identify novel pathway behind how cells sense and respond to their environment. The study, published today in Nature Materials, found that a previously overlooked protein, known as syndecan-4, is important for transmitting external signals into the cell. Syndecan-4 senses movements outside the cell ... [more] | ||