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🚀 We spoke with Lois Anderson about the Space 4 All Community.
Read more: kcl.ac.uk/5-minutes-with-loi…
And the 2025 Space 4 All Challenge is now live 👉 kcl.ac.uk/2025-space-4-all-c…
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Congratulations to Dr Robert Seaborne @KCLBMBioscience who has been awarded a New Investigator Grant from @The_MRC. The award will support his work focused on understanding the role of skeletal muscle in motor neurone disease.
Read more ➡️ kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-robert-sea…
ALT Photo of Dr Robert Seaborne with quote: "The support from the MRC will allow our lab to apply novel methodologies that we have developed over the last ~5 years, to study motor neurone disease from a muscle perspective, giving us a greater opportunity to provide novel insights into the disease."
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Researchers from @KingsCollegeLon have used the world’s most advanced electron microscope to reveal the complete architecture of the bacterial flagellum - a molecular machine essential for bacteria to cause infection, that could be a target for antibiotics kcl.ac.uk/news/scientists-ta…
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Congratulations to Professor Jody Rosenblatt on being elected to the EMBO Membership 👏
Jody Rosenblatt, Professor of Cell Biology at King’s and Principal Group Leader at the @TheCrick, has been elected to the EMBO Membership in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements
kcl.ac.uk/news/jody-rosenbla…
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A team led by @UniofExeter, in collaboration with Prof Carsten Flohr & Dr Helen Alexander from St John’s Institute of Dermatology @KingsCollegeLon, has been awarded £3.3m from @The_MRC to investigate the role of fungi in the development of eczema kcl.ac.uk/news/3.3m-awarded-… @PPopDerm
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Many congratulations to Professor Sophia Karagiannis 👏
Congratulations to Professor Sophia Karagiannis on receiving the EAACI Research Fellow Award 2025 from the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology @EAACI_HQ.
The award recognises EAACI members who have excelled in the field of allergy and clinical immunology.
ALT Headshot of Professor Sophia Karagiannis with quote: "“Receiving the EAACI Research Fellow Award is a source of immense pride and renewed conviction to continue advancing our understanding of the interphase between allergic immune responses with cancer in AllergoOncology – a field I have had the privilege to co-found, establish and shape with the fantastic contributions of our EAACI academic and clinical community."
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Congratulations to Professor Carsten Flohr @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience who has received a pump-priming award from @eczemasociety as part of its first-ever research grant round.
Read more about the project ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/professor-car…
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📢 Applications are open for a PhD studentship looking at modelling respiratory physiology during acute exposures to altitude to enable digital test and evaluation of future fast-jet environmental control and life support systems.
Deadline: 4 June
Apply: kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/fundi…
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New research from @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience has found that fat stored around the abdomen is more strongly linked to psoriasis risk than total body fat, particularly in women ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/study-finds-c…
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Read this #Review from Oliver Witard (@KCLBMBioscience) et al., who featured as a runner-up for our 2024 Mid-Career Researcher prize! His review focusses on nutrition interventions to improve muscle mass & functional outcomes post-orthopaedic surgery!
📖 buff.ly/8g4nCdZ
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Research from Prof Snezhana Oliferenko's group @KingsCollegeLon @TheCrick shows that the transfer of genes from bacteria to more complex organisms like yeast can give the new host a survival advantage, but it requires rewiring of the host’s biology ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/beneficial-ba…
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“Understanding the biology of how a treatment works is essential for bringing treatments closer to patients" - Professor @SophiaKaragiann.
Read more about a new study that looked at how a new type of antibody treatment interacts with different immune cells in ovarian cancer ⬇️
Research led by @KingsCollegeLon @SophiaKaragiann has shed light on how a new type of antibody treatment, called MOv18 IgE, reactivates patients’ immune cells to fight ovarian cancer ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/study-shows-h…
@DebraJosephs1 @GSTTnhs @MedUni_Wien @kingshealth @CRUKCOLcentre
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Congratulations to Professor John McGrath, Mary Dunhill Chair in Cutaneous Medicine at St John’s Institute of Dermatology @KingsCollegeLon, who is recipient of the BSID Medal 2025, awarded for his contributions to dermatological research.
Read more: bsid.org.uk/the-bsid-medal-2…
ALT Photo of Professor John McGrath alongside a quote: "I'm delighted to receive this recognition and award from my colleagues within the skin research community in the UK. Having been a PI at KCL for almost 30 years, the medal is really testament to the great research teams I have been fortunate enough to work with and I'm very grateful for all their contributions, collegiality and friendship."
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Read about recent work from Dr Julien Bergeron from our Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics on a newly identified bacterial protein which could help with design of cancer drug delivery system 🦠⬇️
Researchers @KingsCollegeLon @UWMedicine have identified a previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome, which could help drug delivery in cancer treatment.
Read more ⤵️ kcl.ac.uk/news/newly-identif…
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New research by @DrTziotzios, from St John's Institute of Dermatology, and colleagues has found an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing frontal fibrosing alopecia.
Read more below ⤵️
Scientists @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing a type of alopecia ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/scientists-di…
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Congratulations to Professor Sergio Padilla-Parra from our Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics who delivered his inaugural lecture earlier this week 👏 His lecture was titled 'Illuminating virus entry'
Tonight, we’re celebrating the Inaugural Lectures of Professor Sergi Padilla-Parra and Professor Paul Taylor 🎓
Full details of the upcoming events in the series, along with recordings of previous lectures, can be found here: kcl.ac.uk/events/series/facu…
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A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart – an important process for maintaining heart health ⬇️
@maxplanckpress @KCLBMBioscience @KingsCollegeLon @Kings_BHFCentre kcl.ac.uk/news/disrupted-rec…
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Congratulations to Michael Antoniou, Professor in Molecular Genetics in our Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, who delivered his inaugural lecture yesterday 👏 kcl.ac.uk/events/inaugural-l…
Congrats to Professor Michael Antoniou who delivered his Inaugural Lecture this evening.
His talk, "Glyphosate herbicides: safer than table salt or deceptively toxic?", highlighted the need to reassess regulatory limits.
Learn more ➡️ kcl.ac.uk/events/series/facu…
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Continued global warming will lead to more parts of the planet becoming too hot for the human body over the coming decades, finds a new assessment, led by researchers in @KingsSSPP and @kingsmedicine. ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk/news/half-a-degree…
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As part of our Ageing Well campaign, Dr @OllyWitard tells us about age-related muscle loss and shares some tips for how older adults can help to maintain their muscles with advancing age.
Read more from Olly on this topic ➡️ kcl.ac.uk/why-do-we-lose-mus… @KingsCollegeLon
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