May 2024

The King's Doctoral Training Centre has recruited three PhD students to investigate how to best manage Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms without using drugs. Treatments for MS are essential to helping people live well with the condition.…

A dermatology-themed garden, the Burma Skincare Initiative’s Spirit of Partnership Garden, has been awarded a coveted RHS Gold Medal at the 2024 Chelsea Flower Show A garden inspired by the story of the Burma Skincare Initiative, a…

Dr Rosa Andújar, Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts in the Department of Liberal Arts, received the AJP Best Article Prize for her work on Cuban literature inspired by ancient Greek literature. The award acknowledges Dr Andújar’s article…

The British Heart Foundation has awarded £12 million to support world-leading cardiovascular disease research at three London universities, the charity has announced today. Imperial College London, King’s College London and University…

Opening on 4 June 2024, It All Adds Up: Global Discoveries in Maths will explore and celebrate the ingenuity of the human mind, and world-wide contributions to mathematics as we know it today. Visitors to It All Adds Up will…

Lord Simon Stevens has been appointed as the new Chair of the University’s Governing Council, succeeding Lord Geidt as he completes his third and final term. He will officially take up post on 1 January 2025 following a handover period this…

The investment raised at the close of its Series B funding round will enable Pheon Therapeutics (Pheon) to take three new Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs), used to treat cancer, through clinical trials. Pheon Therapeutics, a biotech…

Feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even after many years when the children ate or avoided peanut as desired. The new findings provide conclusive…

Carbon-I, which is short for the Carbon Investigation, was among four proposals selected to receive $5 million for a one-year feasibility study. After the feasibility studies are completed, NASA is expected to select two of the four…

Now a Caltech team has made a key discovery that helps simplify such calculations, speeding them up by a factor of 50 or more while maintaining accuracy. As a result, it is possible to compute electron interactions in more complex…