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Royal Institution: What did your placenta ever do for you?
The placenta is essentially the lifeline for a growing baby, and arguably one of the most important organs in the human body. Without it, you wouldn’t be here.
New Scientist Live
The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London exhibited innovative technology and research, including in-utero surgery carried out by the GIFT-Surg team, at the largest science festival in the UK, New Scientist Live.
Patient and Public Advisory Group Celebration Event
As part of a mid-point evaluation project, the GIFT-Surg Patient and Public Advisory Group (PPIAG) celebrated and assessed their progress at an event at the Wellcome Collection, featuring 19 past, present and future PPIAG members, talks, discussions and cake!
Public Dialogue Workshop
Our research has the potential to impact the treatment of thousands of mothers and babies. However, for these new tools and techniques to be successful in a clinic, it is fundamental that they are trusted and accepted by the public. To achieve this, the research community must first open up a dialogue with the public to understand the hopes and concerns relating to these developments.
Being Human Festival – Exploring Under the Skin event
The Being Human Festival is a national festival promoting public engagement with humanities research. As part of this, UCL organised Exploring Under The Skin - a range of events on what happens within human bodies.
Andrew Melbourne’s work on Fetal and Neonatal Quantitative Imaging Techniques Recognised with Lectureship
We would like to offer our congratulations to Andrew Melbourne who has recently been promoted to Lecturer in Advanced Computational Imaging within the Translational Imaging Group (TIG).
GIFT-Surg at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Visit the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition to learn how smart surfaces are being used to prevent infection and avoid the need for antibiotics in clinical settings in an exhibition curated by UCL researchers.
Rosalind Pratt awarded best-poster prize at the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences Poster Competition
Rosalind Pratt was awarded the runner-up prize in the 2017 Faculty of Population Health Sciences Poster Competition on 26th April for her poster entitled “Investigating Placental Efficiency; Novel Analysis of the Fetoplacental Vascular Tree”. Congratulations to her!
New open-source platform for clinical imaging research
An open-source cloud storage platform called GIFT-Cloud which allows for multi-institute, high-volume clinical imaging research with ...
Packed Lunch: Medical Robotics
Surgery is increasingly benefiting from developments in robotic technology, but what does it mean to hand over control to a machine? Join Danail Stoyanov for a conversation about his work developing innovative robotic techniques to make surgery less invasive.
New research collaboration to develop next generation of neonatal incubators
A new collaboration between GIFT-Surg and Sonic Womb Productions Ltd will develop an increased understanding on the role of sound in-utero in order to create the next generation of neonatal incubators.
International students’ marathon run to raise money for Bliss
Three UCL students who are helping to alleviate problems that cause babies to be born early or with health problems through UCL-led research supported by Bliss completed the Royal Parks Half Marathon across the capital on 9 October to further support the work of the charity.