Excellence Fund Showcase
Teaching teams lead the way on diversity
Inclusive robotics teaching, empowering students with learning differences & diversifying reading lists were on the agenda at a recent showcase event.
Stories tagged with 'Global challenges Health and wellbeing'
CAPITAL CONCERN
Thousands of Londoners hospitalised in three years due to harmful air pollution
Poor air quality in the capital leads to around 1,000 London hospital admissions for asthma and serious lung conditions every year.
PHAGE FIGHTERS
Tumour-targeting viruses hold hope for incurable brain cancers
Using bacteria-killing viruses to deliver cancer therapies could help to tackle deadly brain cancers, according to new early-stage research.
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News in brief
Raising smoking age and mapping HIV transmission: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
Eye spy
Sight-saving imaging tool wins Imperial’s biggest startup competition
A team of Imperial students are hoping to make avoidable blindness a thing of the past with a revolutionary imaging tool.
CDT Student Wins
ICB CDT student awarded BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Innovation Placement
ICB CDT student Mark Wilkinson has been awarded a BBSRC FTMA Innovation Placement and will spend 3 months attending the DDW unit at GSK, Madrid.
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Day Zero
Water 'Day Zero': What the world can learn from droughts in Cape Town
Cities need a long-term strategy for water management, say academics from Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town.
Salt shakeup
Researcher urges food industry to reduce salt in food
The food industry must do more to lower the amount of salt in their products in order to tackle high blood pressure, says an Imperial expert.
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Cholesterol-cutter
New cholesterol-lowering drug could help patients unable to take statins
A new class of oral cholesterol-lowering drug could help patients unable to take statins due to side effects.
Smart diagnostics
Smartphones could help diagnose infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
A new Imperial-led review has outlined how health workers could use existing phones to predict and curb the spread of infectious diseases.
