I would be happy to support scholars interested in applying to MSCA postdoctoral fellowship scheme to work on a drug discovery or medicinal chemistry focused project preferably in cancer or infectious disease King's College London School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences . Please get in touch.

👩‍🔬 We wanted to give a warm welcome to Dr Ana Georgian - our new Technical School Manager

🧪 Ana took over from John Darker at the beginning of the month, and brings more a decade of experience as a post-doc and technician within King's and industry

💵 🇮🇳 A multi-billion dollar cost in productivity from head and neck cancer in India has been revealed thanks to new research from Tata Memorial Hospital & Richard Sullivan

Learn more about its impact ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk/news/multi-bil…

A huge congrats to the Poster Competition winners! 👏👏👏

They are:

Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences:
Seong Heun Kim, Mark Laws, Faiza Benaouda

Comprehensive Cancer Centre:
Rami Mustapha, Lucia Rampazzo, Georgina Starling

Colleagues learned about the latest findings in fields like nanomedicines and radioresistance

They also heard from new academics about their work

The annual School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences Symposium took place last week, giving colleagues the opportunity to learn about the diversity of cutting-edge research taking place across the School

John Strouboulis School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine KHP Haematology Congratulations John, I am sure you will do an excellent job

Prisoners with cancer are more likely to die from the disease.

Researchers from @Kingsmedicine @UniofSurrey and UCL, funded by NIHR Research, found people with cancer in prison received less treatment and had many barriers to proper care.

Read now ⬇️

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Dr David Ballard recently contributed to new guidelines on STR sequencing - a powerful DNA analysis technique used in forensics

The guidelines will benefit fields like criminal investigation and disaster victim identification

King's College London #DNADay

kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-res…

Join us as we look back at the first series of Humanising Healthcare
 
Hosted by Dr Manasi Randi, the podcast explores the work of researchers who have identified and are aiming to address inequalities within their fields
 
Listen now: kcl.ac.uk/humanising-hea…

Ever wondered how science influences policy, or how policy can influence the research ecosystem? 🤔

Dr Georgina Starling from School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences spent a week with a civil servant to learn how these disciples interact

Read more below 👇

kcl.ac.uk/a-week-in-west…

Xylazine, a powerful animal tranquiliser linked to horrific side effects, is now widespread in the UK illicit drug market.

The drug has been found mixed with heroin and THC vapes.

Dr Copeland speaks to The Guardian ⬇️

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

News to share🎉🎊🎈

I am happy to share the good news that I will be joining The University of Hong Kong as a Global STEM Professor in Sep this year.

Our lab at Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy is looking for post-doctoral fellows in Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine & Advanced Therapeutics

A £10.5m grant from Cancer Research UK will help King's train more doctors as clinician scientists for cancer research

The boost will also be used to improve diversity in clinical teams and accelerate development of cancer treatments

School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences

kcl.ac.uk/news/cancer-re…

Research from Prof Eric So in School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences has uncovered a key mechanism controlling how bone marrow stem cells work

The findings shine a light on the principles of stem cell biology and open the door to new therapeutic pathways

kcl.ac.uk/news/key-mecha…

Jez Carlton from School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences has co-led a new study exploring the mechanism that allows the COVID-19 virus to replicate 🦠

The findings could open the door for new antiviral therapies

Read about it below 👇

kcl.ac.uk/news/discovery…

This year's #FoLSMStaffAwards are open for nominations! Recognise a colleague in the categories of Research, People & Culture and Education. Full details, award criteria and the nomination form are on the Faculty Information Hub: lnkd.in/ewX7RbdY

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has awarded PharosAI £100k seed funding to help develop its pitch to boost AI-assisted healthcare across the UK

Led by Prof Anita Grigoriadis of KCL Cancer Bioinformatics Group, PharosAI is one of 12 teams that can now bid for up to £25m in September

kcl.ac.uk/news/seed-fund…

Researchers from School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences and others have shown for the first time that a crucial interface in a protein that drives cancer growth could act as a target for more effective treatments

Read below 🔽

kcl.ac.uk/news/scientist…

What a fantastic achievement, well done on all your hard work, Syed Alhafiz 👏