UCL in the media
Dementia funding
Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses dementia research and the work of the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre on the day of the G8 dementia summit.
Dementia summit
Professor Martin Rossor (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses dementia research and drug discovery at the G8 dementia summit, saying: "We need large numbers of researchers working together and we need data access."
Government advisers call for ketamine reclassification
Professor Val Curran (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) comments on government plans to reclassify ketamine, saying: "It's got a very important role in medicine and has been around for 50 years."
Lack of children's exercise policy is 'child neglect'
Lack of a proper national policy to get UK children to do more exercise amounts to mass "child neglect", according to an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine co-authored by Dr Richard Weiler (UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health)
, ,Women scientists less likely to receive funding, study finds
British female scientists working to cure the world's most infectious diseases receive far less funding than their male peers, according to new research led by Michael Head (UCL Infection and Population Health).
,Ethnic minorities' stem cell donor match rates double in 15 years
Rates of black and minority ethnic (BME) people finding stem cell donors for blood cancer treatment are approaching those of white people after years of lagging behind, a study led by Dr Robert Lown (UCL Cancer Institute) has found.
Why do we value gold?
Of all the 118 elements in the periodic table, gold is the one humans have always tended to choose to use as currency. Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) discusses why this is the case.
Newborn babies may be more developed than we think
Journalist Angela Saini takes her son to the London Babylab (UCL Institute of Child Health) and learns about the latest research in child development.
Cultural and educational hub to be built on London Olympics site
UCL has confirmed its continuing plans to develop an education hub in the Olympic Park, following a government announcement. Professor Steve Caddick Vice-Provost (Enterprise) said UCL's aim is "to establish east London as the global hotspot for enterprise, innovation, research and education."
Subjectivity may curb false findings
Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Division of Biosciences) comments on a recent study which suggests that purely objective scientific peer review could fail to eliminate false theories.