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An international team of researchers, led by the University of Glasgow, is aiming to discover new ways to better understand and tackle tuberculosis (TB) transmission in Africa. Led by Professor Peter MacPherson, from the University's School of Health & Wellbeing, the team has been awarded a £2.9m Wellcome Discovery Award for the ZAMSA-TB Study, which aims to discover new methods to understand recent TB transmission in Africa, target interventions such as new TB vaccines, and measure their effectiveness.

A landmark GRAM Project study of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden over time forecasts a sharp rise in deaths, with 39 million lives lost between now and 2050. Resistance to antibiotics led to at least one million deaths each year since 1990, with increasing rates of drug-resistant infections expected to claim more than 39 million lives between now and 2050 without further policy action, according to a landmark study by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project.

After parliament voted to end the universal Winter Fuel Payment despite the Government not conducting an assessment of the impact of the changes, research has shown that older people often don't clai

Our focus for the coming academic year and beyond will be on taking a student-led harm reduction approach to drug use.

The real world was brought into the laboratory on a scale never seen before, for an experiment where over 100 people were tracked walking through a custom-built network of moveable 'walls', in a UCL-led research project investigating how people move through spaces. The project attracted participation from professionals in architecture, hospitals, transport, AI, property, video game design, dance, and museums.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From academic awards to subatomic particles,  here's some quick-read news from across Imperial.

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

Representatives from the University were delighted to welcome the Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray MP, to the Clarice Pears Building and the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) today, Thursday 12 September 2024.

A fingertip device that closely mimics the sensation of interacting with real objects, developed by a team led by UCL researchers, paves the way for applications in diagnosing loss of touch, video calls, robotic surgery and hazardous waste handling.

Antarctica's rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent.

Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated by rich and poor alike, study finds The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from. At the same time, both the rich and the poor drastically overestimate the carbon footprint of the poorest people.

Shared Parental Leave (SPL) has failed to encourage greater take-up by fathers, a new study from Cardiff University and the University of Bath shows.

In advance of World Sepsis Day, Imperial and MicrosensDx announce a collaboration to develop a more effective test for the devastating disease.

A lack of diversity in genomic studies for dementia could limit the effectiveness of targeted therapies across underrepresented populations, finds research by UCL experts. Results from two papers that explore regions of the genome associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in African populations will be presented at the Future of Dementia in Africa conference.

Understanding Animal Research (UAR) has published a list of the ten organisations that carried out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary, and scientific research - in Great Britain in 2023. These statistics are freely available on the organisations' websites as part of their ongoing commitment to transparency and openness around the use of animals in research.

The ten organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have released their annual statistics today.

Imperial spinout Dosium is working with the NHS to roll out a clinical decision support tool that provides dosage guidance to increase patient safety.

UK researchers have begun designing a new device to detect elusive dark matter particles thought to make up 85% of the mass of the Universe.