Congratulations to Dominic Marshall, a Clinical Research Fellow in AMPIC, who has been successfully awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship for his PhD titled “Identification of Novel Phenotypes of Acute Lung Injury using Multimodal Longitudinal data”.
In this blog, he shares what he learned from the application process and what he would advise others applying for similar awards. (more…)
S&C’s Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan (Ram), Reader in Paediatric Critical Care was successful in obtaining funding to set up a new NIHR Incubator in paediatric critical care. (more…)
APMIC welcomed collaborators from the Korean Institute of Oriental Medicine to discuss how sleep patterns are associated with cognitive function. (more…)
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we sat down S&C’s Professor Gina Brown to discuss her career, female role models and challenging gender bias. (more…)
Congratulations to S&C’s Dr Amelia Seifalian who won the 2022 Young Innovator award from Innovate UK.
Congratulations to Surgery and Cancer’s Professor Sir Huw Thomas, Head of the Medical Household and Physician to the Queen, who was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order at Windsor Castle by the Queen. (more…)
Congratulations to Surgery and Cancer’s and Healthcare Professional Academic Group (HPAG) Faculty member Dr. Caroline Alexander on being awarded a Professor of Practice. We had the opportunity to do a quick interview with her and find out how she was feeling about her promotion.
Professor Hector Keun talks to Professor Eric Aboagye about his career journey and becoming a Professor of Cancer Pharmacology & Molecular Imaging at Imperial College London’s Department of Surgery and Cancer.
In this wide-ranging interview, Professor Aboagye discusses his own journey, initially moving from Ghana to Scotland to study pharmaceutical sciences and cancer research, and then spending time in America before coming to Imperial. Touching on issues around discrimination in academia, unconscious bias, and improving representation, he also offers important advice, based on his own experiences, for those moving from postdoc towards their first academic position.
Huge congratulations to all the S&C staff who were successfully recognised at the President’s Awards Ceremony 2021.
Congratulations to Mark Lythgoe, Clinical Research Fellow in the Division of Cancer, for receiving the 2021 Conquer Cancer Merit Award, given for his abstract on disparities in cancer drug medicine regulatory approvals between regulators, which was submitted to the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting. (more…)
Congratulations to Surgery and Cancer’s Professor Sir Huw Thomas who was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the Queen’s 2021 New Year Honours.
A Professor of Gastrointestinal Genetics in the Department since 2007, Professor Thomas research aims to define the inherited predispositions to colorectal cancer and refine the management of familial risk.
Alongside his research, Professor Thomas was appointed in July 2014, as the Head of the Medical Household, the medical section of the Royal Household of the British monarch, and Physician to the Queen.
Well done to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes.*
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Gordon, Professor Anthony | National Institute for Health Research | REMAP-CAP COVID extension | 664,559 |
| Global Health | Darzi, Professor Lord Ara | Mental Health Innovations | Research Programme on Mental Health Innovations Dataset | 60,002 |
*Dude, where’s my grant? A disclaimer:
To ensure the quality and accuracy of the information published on this blog, we source our data directly from the College’s strategic reporting dashboards, relating to FoM. This means that, typically, we only include awards on this list which have been set up on the College’s grants management system, in accordance with the Joint Research Office’s policies and processes. As a result, there may be a delay in promoting some awards.
Well done to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes.* (more…)
Congratulations to members of the Department who have recently had their research findings published. Here’s our round-up of recent publication successes.*
Well done to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes*. (more…)
