Professor Rick Trainor, Principal of King’s College London, has been invited by the Prime Minister to play a leading role in delivering high level US and UK university co-operation in his capacity as President of Universities UK.

The new Dermatology and Molecular Medicine Research Laboratories were officially opened yesterday by Mrs Kay Glendinning MBE, of the Dunhill Medical Trust. This new partnership will foster translation of genetic and biological advances into better diagnosis and treatment for serious skin diseases.

Research led by Dr John Maher, Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Cancer Studies, School of Medicine at King’s, has developed a new way for the body to detect and fight breast cancer.

Scientists from King's and the Forsyth Institute have compiled the first comprehensive list of oral bacterial species. More than 600 species have been found and the list (the Human Oral Microbiome Database) provides descriptions of each species together with tools for analysis of their DNA.

Five King’s College London students flew to Manilla, Republic of the Philippines, on the 20 March to set up two enterprise projects with school leavers currently living in poverty on rubbish dumps.

Researchers from the Dental Institute and the Nutritional Science Research Division, led by Professors Saman Warnakulasuriya and Victor R Preedy have published new research findings which herald a significant advance in understanding how alcohol may cause oral (mouth) cancer.

Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings is a major exhibition opening Thursday 13 March at the National Portrait Gallery co-curated by Dr Elizabeth Eger, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at King’s.

A previously unknown portrait of Mozart has been authenticated by an academic from King’s College London, Professor Cliff Eisen, a world expert on the eighteenth-century composer. It could be the single most significant Mozart artefact to come to light in the last 200 years.

Researchers at King’s College London have been awarded a highly prestigious Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery grant. The award of £3.1 million will be used to develop a new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, led by Professor Chris Shaw, have published new research in Science which heralds a significant advance in motor neurone disease (MND). They have shown that the ‘TDP-43’ protein is directly toxic to motor neurones and causes degeneration of these cells.

Sir William Castell, Chairman of The Wellcome Trust and a hugely influential figure in the funding of biomedical science in the UK, will today lecture at the Biomedical Forum on 'The Challenges and Opportunities Confronting UK Biomedical Research’.

King’s academic, Dr Christoph Meyer, is the College’s first recipient of a prestigious grant from the newly-established European Research Council (ERC). It will fund a project on the use of early warnings relating to intra-state conflict and their contribution to improving public policy.