The School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences annual Postgraduate Symposium took place last week This provided a great opportunity for our hardworking and talented postgrads to showcase their work 🧑‍🔬

A warm congrats to all the award winners, who included: Best talk: Isobelle Wall and Hayley Costanzo Best poster: Emre Demirel and Kasandra Arcovio Best image competition: Helena Friedrich And well done to all the fantastic runner ups as well 👏

#ThisweekatKings Breast Cancer Now supporters met with leading scientists for a tour of their cutting-edge lab facilities. This highlighted the importance of collaboration between scientists, patients & healthcare professionals to improve treatments. ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/this-week

Spray-on patches? Medicated nails? 💅 We spoke to Prof Stuart Jones about the fascinating world of medical devices and what's needed to bring them to market ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/medicated-nail…

Counterfeit versions of the weight loss and diabetes drug Ozempic have appeared on the market due to shortages of the real thing Dr Bahijja Raimi-A spoke to BBC World Service about what this means and how to spot the fake medicines Listen from 33:50 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Athlete biological passports are an innovative system for the detection of blood, steroid, and growth hormone doping They're set to make a big impact at this year's Olympic Games Christiaan Bartlett explains. Watch below 👇 selectscience.net/video/24-hour-…

"A tipping point" in cancer care. Experts from across the country, including Richard Sullivan (King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine), have outlined 10 time-critical issues the new government must address to tackle NHS cancer care delivery. Read more ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/the-10-ca…

This year’s Faculty Staff Awards are about to get underway!🥳 We’re looking forward to announcing the winners of 19 awards across three categories: People & Culture, Research and Education, plus two Executive Dean’s Special Awards! #KingsLSM King's College London

World-first guidelines will help clinicians measure the immune response in patients with Myelodysplastic syndromes, a type of blood cancer 🩸 The guidelines were formed by an international consortium of experts created and led by Shahram Kordasti kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-lea…

We’re proud to fund #STARS2024, our major equality, diversity and inclusion initiative for aspiring young scientists. Read Professor John Marshall’s blog on the aims of the programme: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

A do-it-yourself HPV kit could see an additional million women screened for cervical cancer. The YouScreen trial led by King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, North East London Cancer Alliance & North Central London Cancer Alliance found the test could be game-changing for declining cervical screening rates. kcl.ac.uk/news/self-samp…

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new GKT School of Medical Education branded scrubs! 🥳 Launching in the 2024/25 academic year, we hope the scrubs will foster a sense of belonging and community, as well as making it easier to identify our students

London-based A-level students visited our labs last week to learn about and try their hand at cancer research The pupils learned about everything from sequencing genomes to CAR-T cell therapy

New research has found that a specific bacteria is toxic for head and neck cancer In tests, the bacteria 'melted' up to 99% of cancer cells The findings could lead to better outcomes for patients kcl.ac.uk/news/bacteria-…

A new study has found the mechanism that drives graphene oxide toxicity in the body Potentially an effective drug delivery system, this could be a major step forwards for its medical application Khuloud Al-Jamal FRPharmS FRSC kcl.ac.uk/news/protein-r…

Anita Grigoriadis and Laszlo Radvanyi will receive an Early Detection & Diagnosis Primer Award, jointly funded with Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), to map the retro-transposable element expression in individuals with varying #BreastCancer risk to identify new biomarkers. King's College London |

Clinical Trials are fundamental to modern healthcare, but what are they, how do they work and why are they important? Hear Professor James Galloway, Clinical Trials Specialist, answer these questions and more in the below video 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=HqSDsT…

Women diagnosed with breast cancer in Gaza showed a promising increase in short-term survival between 2017-2020 This highlights the benefits of investment and collaboration with the Gaza healthcare system before the current conflict kcl.ac.uk/news/breast-ca…

A forensic scientist at King's has called for greater focus on the potential environmental impacts of natural fibres kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-sci…

Dr Miguel Ferreira spoke to Portuguese news channel SIC about how a common bacteria was found to 'melt' head and neck cancer The research could change the way a type of cancer is treated kcl.ac.uk/news/bacteria-…