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- Breathing aids developed by UCL, UCLH and F1 team delivered to 40 NHS hospitals
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- British Library collaborates with UCLH and The Crick to increase COVID-19 testing
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- UCLH coordinates cancer care for north and east London patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
- UCLH congratulates PM and fiancée on birth of son
- 24 Covid-19 studies now open at UCLH
- Letters To Loved Ones
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- COVID-19 research studies rapidly opened at UCLH
- BBC News showcases the “remarkable” care shown by UCLH staff
- Designs for life-saving breathing aid to be made freely available
- UCLH COVID-19 staff testing service
- UCL, UCLH and Formula One develop life-saving breathing aids for the NHS
- Help shape the future of planned orthopaedic surgery for adults in north central London
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- New book by UCLH consultant
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- War in the Blood, a film about treating cancer patients with CAR T cell therapy
- UCLH begins trial of blood plasma exchange for Covid-19
- UCLH virtual Annual Members' Meeting 2020
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- Tributes to our staff
- The NHS is changing how people access urgent and emergency care in London
- UCLH leads the way with service to treat Covid-19 patients with lingering symptoms
- Appointment of new deputy chief executive
- Health secretary Matt Hancock visits University College Hospital
- Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road - closure of site
- Research at University College Hospital shows safe cancer surgery is possible during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Bid to understand how cardiovascular conditions and Covid-19 interact
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- Our volunteer helpers - thank you!
- One year at the Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- Research into restoring loss of smell and taste in COVID patients
- UCLH begins trial of blood plasma exchange for Covid-19
- UCLH to trial second COVID-19 vaccine
- UCLH research study suggests ways to reduce COVID-19 infections in hospitals
- Cystic fibrosis drug tested to fight inflammation in COVID-19
- Researchers to see if sniffer dogs can detect COVID-19
- Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19
- Photo essay on UCLH staff published on Tortoise website
- New national study on long-term health impacts of COVID-19 launched
- A massive thank you to our amazing staff
- UCLH porter recognised in Queen’s honours list
- Temporary paediatric service changes: an open letter
- NHS England announces investment in Long COVID-19 clinics
- Spread of COVID-19 mapped in hospitals to ‘break the chain’ of transmission
- Marcel Levi to step down as chief executive
- Loss of smell a ‘highly specific’ indicator of Covid-19, finds UCLH and UCL research
- PTSD may double risk of dementia
- The Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals wins prestigious HSJ Value Award
- Age no criterion for decisions on heart attack treatment, new research finds
- New contracts awarded to facilities management partners
- Single-dose radiotherapy as effective for treating breast cancer, long-term study finds
- Prestigious international infectious diseases award for UCLH consultant
- Team behind life-saving breathing aid win prestigious engineering award
- UCLH to test COVID-19 vaccine
- UCLH Board directors announced
- Study highlights need to identify healthcare staff who lose sense of taste or smell
- UCLH in a BBC documentary about COVID
- SUMMIT Study catches up with pre-pandemic follow up appointments
- Write a reflective heart this Christmas
- UCLH Charity Matters - read all about it
- Immunotherapy for bowel cancer could change clinical practice
- Optimal time to treat Huntington’s disease identified
- Steroid drug reduces mortality in hospitalised Covid-19 patients
- The Journey to the Lighthouse: new book tells the story of the opening of child sexual abuse centre
- Judicial review outcome: puberty blocking treatment for children
- Breakthrough in Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial which involved UCLH
- UCLH opens second 'long Covid' clinic for patients with neurological complications
- UCLH doses first patient in the world in Covid-19 antibody trial
- UCLH welcomes UK approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19
- UCLH’s Professor Ramani Moonesinghe honoured by the Queen
- Dr Roganie Govender awarded an MBE
- Support our COVID-19 Emergency Staff Support Fund
- Antiviral drugs trialled in the early stages of Covid-19
- Study sheds light on accidental awareness during pregnancy-related surgery and how to prevent it
- “No one is invulnerable” – stark messages from patients and staff about the realities of coronavirus
- Gender Identity and Development Service (GIDS) - legal update
- Covid-19 NHS vaccination centre opens at Francis Crick Institute
- UCLH recruits first participant in Europe to remdesivir outpatient study
- World’s first COVID-19 vaccine alternating dose study launches at UCLH
- If you are aged 70 or over - book your vaccination now
- 'Gamechanger' drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20%
- UCLH appoints David Probert as its new chief executive
- SUMMIT Study early results feature in The Guardian
- UCLH Brain Tumour Service awarded ‘Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence Status’
- UCLH consultant publishes book about the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on ICU
- Covid-19 NHS vaccination centre opens at London’s Business Design Centre
- Share your feedback on temporary changes to children and young people’s services
- Faith leaders in Islington call for everyone to be vaccinated
- Facing the pandemic as a digital hospital
- UCLH and Microsoft to collaborate on the future of healthcare
- UCLH wins two HSJ awards
- National Day of Reflection: remembering all those we have lost during this pandemic
- Reopening of our children and young people's emergency department
- Gender Identity Development Service – legal update 26 March 2021
- UCLH’s children and young people’s emergency department has reopened
- $175.5 million for immunotherapy spin-out to develop new treatments
- UCLH launches new animated videos for patients with spasticity
- Alternating vaccines trial to include two additional vaccines
- Covid-19 variant more transmissible but does not increase disease severity in hospitalised patients
- Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking - new book edited by UCLH pain specialist Professor Joanna Zakrzewska
- Rare cases of blood clots and low platelets after vaccination
- Help add colour to our children's emergency department
- Latest UK Covid-19 Vaccine Study Launched at UCLH
- The vaccine bus is coming
- Single Covid-19 vaccine dose may boost protection in those previously infected
- Surgery in the womb for spina bifida has stopped paralysis in dozens of babies
- Study looking at whether COVID-19 and flu vaccines can be administered at the same time
- UCLH to lead data initiative to improve care for myeloma patients
- Mild Covid-19 infection very unlikely to cause lasting heart damage
- CPAP devices developed by UCLH and UCL arrive in India
- UCLH clinicians elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
- Ground breaking at new UCL centre of excellence for neuroscience
- International hypertension research award for UCLH Director of Research
- Prime Minister visits UCLH vaccination centre
- UCLH marks International Clinical Trials Day
- North Central London Elective Orthopaedic Network launched
- UCLH’s children and young people’s emergency department has reopened
- Booster COVID-19 vaccinations update
- Same Day Emergency Care
- UCLH part of first UK Covid-19 vaccine study for pregnant women
- UCLH in world-first Covid-19 vaccine booster study
- SUMMIT Study reaches 13,000 participants as recruitment ends
- BBC documentary featuring UCLH clinicians highlights harms of ultra-processed food
- How the stroke team transformed the service at UCLH
- Covid-19 vaccine: Common stroke symptoms must be ‘urgently evaluated’
- Trained dogs identify Covid-19 with up to 94% accuracy
- New pop-up clinics in Islington make it easier to get the Covid-19 vaccine
- Keeping calm with live music
- Royal College of Physicians award for UCLH long Covid service
- North Central London Cancer Alliance launches cancer awareness campaign
- Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients have lower antibody levels targeting the variant first discovered in India
- The Prime Minister received his second vaccine at UCLH vaccination Centre
- UCLH researchers first in the world to trial novel cancer treatment
- Drug combination could be new lupus treatment
- Queen recognises UCLH staff in birthday honours 2021
- First place for UCLH in European Healthcare Design Awards
- Grab your jab - walk in centres open between 25 and 28 June 2021
- UCLH’s lead infection prevention and control nurses announced as finalists for this year’s Royal College of Nursing Awards
- Antibody levels vary according to vaccine type and previous infection with COVID-19
- Diagnosing oesophageal cancer with AI in world first
- UCLH-led immunotherapy clinical trial sets recruitment record for brain cancer
- Turn-of-the-century pioneer of the emerging science of neurology, NHNN neurologist James Samuel Risien Russell receives English Heritage London blue plaque
- Wanted: UCLH Charity ambassadors
- New clinical trial aims to improve diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of long COVID
- UCLH begins clinical trial of Alzheimer’s drug developed at UCL
- Evaluation of temporary changes to paediatric services in North Central London
- World Hepatitis Day marks arrival of a new van to find & treat homeless patients
- New chief executive of the NHS visits UCLH
- Second #GunnerGetJabbed event at the Emirates Stadium between 7-10 August
- Study sheds light on treatment of rare cases of blood clotting in the brain following COVID-19 vaccination
- Research deepens understanding of rare vaccine-induced blood clotting condition
- UCLH thanks The Francis Crick Institute for its role in running a Covid-19 vaccination centre
- UCLH declares a climate and health emergency
- Thank you to the Islington Business Design Centre as the vaccination centre closes today
- New vaccination centre opens in Camden
- Antibody treatment reduces risk of symptomatic COVID-19 by 77%
- Sir Keir Starmer visits Grafton Way Building
- Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) – legal update 17 September 2021
- UCLH has one of the best emergency departments in London
- Secretary of State visits UCLH vaccination centre at Bidborough House
- Outpatient strategy sets out our vision for the future
- UCLH stroke team collaboration with the London Ambulance Service wins award
- Vision for AI to transform hearing care set out
- UCLH staff help to develop a major new Science Museum exhibition
- UCLH highest scoring trust in London for inpatients
- Professor Ed Wild contributes to new memoir by Charlotte Raven about her experience with Huntington’s disease
- Investigating the neurological impact of climate change
- Our new UCLH Charity Christmas Card is available now
- UCLH consultant wins award
- Whole genome sequencing improves rare disease diagnosis in world first study
- Road closures near UCLH this weekend
- Support UCLH Charity this #GivingTuesday
- Study at UCLH publishes COVID-19 booster data
- COVID-19 NHS vaccination centre to reopen at Islington Business Design Centre
- UCLH haematology team wins award
- UCLH has released a statement congratulating Carrie and Boris Johnson on the birth of their daughter. There will be no further comment.
- New UCLH clinic opens to provide COVID-19 treatments for highest risk non-hospitalised patients
- UCLH people recognised in Queen’s New Year Honours list
- Proton Beam Therapy Centre starts treating patients
- UCLH first in the NHS to use Nanoknife for prostate cancer
- UCLH chief executive granted UCL honorary professorship
- Second generation CAR T-cell therapy trialled in patients
- Vaccination centre at the Business Design Centre, Islington, closes
- Abiraterone could halve risk of prostate cancer death for some patients
- COVID-19 vaccine booster provides good antibody protection against Omicron
- Pre-hospital airway management now part of the UCLH Airway Matters course
- Haematology and critical care services open in the Grafton Way Building
- Green energy & new tech to improve health for homeless patients
- Take on a challenge in 2022
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visits UCLH
- New guidelines for endometriosis set to help millions of women with the chronic condition
- Clinical Research Facility at UCLH awarded £10 million
- UCLH sending critical medical supplies to Ukraine
- HRH The Prince of Wales opens University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Staff and patients delighted with the newly refurbished Neurorehabilitation Unit
- World-first CJD treatment shows promising early results
- UCLH top trust to work at in London – and third best in the country
- UCLH to be part of vital health data partnership
- Major UCLH investment in research and training to benefit staff and patients
- 1.2 million Appointments - 10 years of the University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- New NED appointments announced
- New technology to improve cancer care to be tested in clinical practice
- London hospitals partner up to run event for children and young people with sickle cell disorder at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
- Stroke nurses first in the UK to implant cardiac monitors in patients
- Study highlights chronic nature of obesity and need for ongoing treatment
- UCL top 10 university in the world for medicine and life sciences
- Help us Bring the Colour to Radiotherapy
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care visits National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Professor Bryan Williams elected President of the International Society of Hypertension
- Long Covid linked to increased risk of abnormal blood clotting
- Robotic surgery for bladder cancer improves patient recovery time
- UCLH consultants elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
- UCL top in the UK for research quality in medicine, health and life sciences
- App detecting neonatal jaundice from the eye successful in first major clinical trial
- Time Capsule buried in a new world-class centre for neuroscience
- Guidance for patients with suspected monkeypox
- Covid-19 surge linked to high levels of mental ill health among intensive care staff
- COVID-19 vaccination effective for most cancer patients but protection wanes more quickly
- UCLH professor receives OBE in Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list
- UCLH doubles its hip and knee operations following move to new building
- UCL ranked eighth best university globally for second year running
- Rail and Tube strikes
- Supporting young people with sickle cell at Tottenham Hotspur
- Start Well: We would like to hear from you
- Camden Adult Pathway Partnership commended at London Homelessness Awards
- Their Royal Highnesses Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Sarah, Duchess of York open blood cancer ward
- Bidborough House mass vaccination centre closes
- Rail strikes Wednesday 27 and Saturday 30 July
- Training programmes perform well in this year’s GMC National Training Survey
- Developing gender care services for children and young people
- More than 100 pieces of art in UCLH’s Grafton Way Building
- Rail, Tube and bus strikes planned for August
- UCLH shortlisted as Trust of the Year in the 2022 HSJ awards
- UCLH launches walking aid 'return and reuse' scheme
- Using MyCare UCLH for video clinics
- UCLH consultant promotes life-saving London bowel cancer screening campaign
- Immunotherapy drug combination stimulates immune system against resistant cancers
- Virtual clinics offer both personal and green benefits
- Evening dosing of blood pressure medication not better than morning dosing
- Our Annual Members’ Meeting has been postponed
- A tribute to Her Majesty The Queen
- UCLH Annual Members’ Meeting postponed
- UCLH services on Monday 19 September 2022
- Good luck in the TCS London Marathon, UCLH Charity runners!
- Hospitals at UCLH feature on list of world’s best
- Patients rate UCLH 8.5 out of 10
- Best of luck to all our runners at the Royal Parks Half Marathon!
- Congratulations to our three RCN Nursing Award winners
- £1.2 million for trial of new weight loss treatment
- NIHR awards our BRC £90million
- New research collaboration to improve patient safety
- Prestigious tropical medicine award for UCLH consultant
- NHS England consults on interim specification for new gender services
- UCLH doctor 1 of 10 international members elected to National Academy of Medicine
- RCP award for young UCLH consultant
- Research at UCLH to tackle RSV infections in infants
- UCLH research shows monitoring for ovarian cancer in high-risk women is beneficial
- Recruitment milestone reached in large breast cancer trial
- Research shows immediate reporting of chest X-rays can cut lung cancer diagnosis time in half
- We’re launching our UCLH Charity Gift of Giving Appeal!
- Research to improve hospital treatment for people who use opioids
- More than 800 patients seen over ‘super-weekend’ for ENT in North Central London
- UCLH and UCL clinicians listed among world’s most influential researchers
- Join the NHS as a reservist!
- Pioneering pan London children and young people’s post-COVID service covered on C4 news
- David Beckham brings joy to young cancer patients
- Transport strikes – plan ahead when coming to our hospitals
- MRC Millennium Medal for Professor Sarah Tabrizi
- Research to make sure young people with lymphoma get the right amount of chemotherapy
- Congratulations to our six new governors, who took their seats on the council.
- Milestone of 1000 robotic operations reached
- Thank you for helping HTD celebrate 100 years in 2022
- Betsey Lau-Robinson recognised in King’s New Year Honours list
- First UK proton beam therapy trial for breast cancer launches at UCLH
- Trial of innovative blood cancer treatment expanded
- Update on nursing and ambulance strike action
- New year, new challenges!
- Cough medicine offers hope of new treatment to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease
- “We have entered a new era in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease”
- New precision therapy for bile duct cancer extends patients’ lives
- The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) members to take industrial action
- Wearable tech, AI and clinical teams combine to change the face of clinical trial monitoring
- UCLH launches net zero plan with new solar investment to save money and the planet
- Industrial action by the Royal College of Nursing
- Cancer surgery at UCLH on Operation Ouch
- Meet Krystina Tyrtania – NHS Arts Apprentice
- On Valentine’s Day UCLH launches a campaign calling for kindness in hospitals
- UCLH patient first in world to receive a new investigational drug in a phase 1 trial
- New book from critical care consultant Jim Down
- New health clinic built into an eco-tricycle to treat homeless patients
- UCLH and Crick research influence new national treatment guidelines for COVID-19
- Junior doctor industrial action in March
- UCLH top trust to work at in England
- Charity Matters out now!
- Preterm babies do not habituate to repeated pain
- UCLH piloting software aimed at reducing stroke health inequalities
- UCLH and Whittington children’s dental service scoops award
- Research autopsies reveal how incurable skin cancer resists treatment
- Well done #teamUCLH on a fantastic London Landmarks Half Marathon
- UCLH appoints Vanessa Sweeney as chief nurse
- Junior doctor industrial action in April
- World-first MS mega-trial opens
- How air pollution can cause lung cancer in people who have never smoked
- ‘Virtual wards’ help patients to recover at home
- Our new five-year strategy
- First ‘gene silencing’ drug for Alzheimer’s disease shows promise
- World-class neuroscience centre reaches highest point in construction
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery anaesthetists rewarded for high-quality patient care
- Industrial action by the Royal College of Nursing over the bank holiday
- Marvellous Marathon for #TeamUCLH
- Research seeking greater understanding of rare blood cancer and how to treat it
- National leadership award for UCLH research practitioner
- Surprise Lifetime Achievement Award for UCLH lung cancer specialist for groundbreaking research
- 24-hour measurement of blood pressure five times more informative of risk of death than conventional clinic blood pressure
- Dr Stephen Cone appointed Director of Digital Innovation Hub
- National dementia research role for UCLH clinician
- Leading role for UCLH in roll out of world-first genetic test for thousands with inherited blood disorders
- UCLH senior nurse features in NHS75 birthday stories
- New units help to reduce carbon emissions in maternity
- Report on Governor visit to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Junior doctor industrial action
- Asymptomatic COVID-19 testing key to pandemic preparedness
- NHS researcher discovers Windrush NHS heritage 75 years on
- Sweet sound of the staff choir
- Happy birthday NHS
- Research confirms very low risk of COVID transmission from mother to unborn baby
- Taking Pride – in ourselves and each other
- Launch event for patient safety collaboration and new research theme
- Immunotherapy for ‘difficult to treat’ lung cancer patients improves long-term survival
- Join us at our annual members' meeting this July!
- Industrial action in July
- NHS75 – revisiting one of our first proton beam therapy patients, Prescilia
- Research aims at faster and more precise diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
- UCLH Find & Treat team explain why screening is vital on World Hepatitis Day
- Gloves off for better safety and a greener NHS
- Pilot study suggests new technology could improve research efficiency
- New booklets address conversations about Parkinson’s dementia
- Award for UCLH Consultant Neurologist
- Industrial action in October
- Encouraging interim results for gene silencing therapy in Alzheimer’s disease
- Brain surgery survivor’s labour of love to bring Chelsea garden to hospital
- New high-tech microscope using AI successfully detects malaria in returning travellers
- TWO UCLH teams are shortlisted in the 2023 HSJ awards
- Bryan Williams to step down as research director
- MRI scans improve prostate cancer diagnosis in screening trial
- Nursing teams are finalists in 2023 Nursing Times awards
- CQC inspection again rates UCLH maternity as ‘Good’.
- Jumping for joy (and UCLH Charity)
- Good results for UCLH in annual CQC inpatient survey
- New approaches to management of high blood pressure highlighted in large review
- New ways to predict outcomes of pregnancies with fetal growth problems
- UCLH specialties ranked among world’s best
- Can AI spot lung cancer and cut diagnosis times?
- New drug trialled to protect people with an impaired immune system against Covid-19
- Researchers applying AI to make brain surgery safer and more effective
- Dr Steve Harris appointed as Chief Research Information Officer
- UCLH nurses announced as RCN Rising Stars 2023
- UCLH take research into the community in highly successful family open day
- Lynch Surveillance Hub opens at UCLH
- New centre at UCLH to address inequities in access to health research
- Simple changes improve quality of MRI scans for prostate cancer screening
- Sustainable dentistry project helps reduce carbon emissions
- Congratulations #teamUCLH on the Royal Parks Half Marathon
- Celebrating our incredible staff
- Better use of existing drugs increases cervical cancer survival and reduces recurrence
- Dr J. S. Risien Russell, one of Britain’s first black consultants, commemorated with portrait
- Lung health checks advertising campaign launches in north London
- Sir David Suchet and Sheila Ferris applaud the work of UCLH volunteers
- UCLH Charity Gift of Giving Appeal is live!
- Four women have groundbreaking two-in-one surgery to reduce their risk of ovarian cancer
- Ask an expert about....prostate cancer
- Relocation of homeless people outside UCLH
- Can music therapy help patients recover from brain injury?
- Marking 75 years of the NHS with the words and voices of UCLH staff
- Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity
- Minimally invasive therapies for prostate cancer beneficial for patients
- Junior doctor industrial action in December and January
- UCLH Santas take on the City!
- Share your views on the future of maternity, neonatal and children’s surgical services in North London
- UCLH consultant features in 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
- UCLH people recognised in King’s New Year Honours list
- Potential new drug shows promise in multiple myeloma
- People with aphasia make significant improvements thanks to intensive programme at UCLH
- Innovative new exhibition at UCLH says ‘Deaf people can do anything’
- Thank you for supporting our UCLH Charity Gift of Giving appeal
- UCLH and UCL clinicians appointed as NHSE National Clinical Directors
- Elderly patients enjoy music residency
- World-first genotyping test that could transform care for people with sickle cell
- Donations make a difference!
- UCLH to coordinate new £49.9m UK-wide network for dementia clinical trials
- UCLH consultant writes second book on weight loss
- Swiss prize for UCLH clinician scientist
- Alzheimer’s disease acquired from historic medical treatments
- Members of the House of Lords and Children’s Commissioner visit the Lighthouse
- Focus on cancer vaccine trials at UCLH
- New framework outlines how to develop, evaluate and monitor surgical robots
- Olympics held during Covid pandemic show how mass gatherings events can be safe
- Junior doctor industrial action in February
- Large study highlights disparities in outcomes between patients of different ethnic groups after giving birth
- In their hands – a patient’s story
- Groundbreaking radiotherapy trial for UK brain cancer patients
- UCLH appoints Professor Karl Peggs to research directorship roles
- New recycling programme to reduce theatre waste
- UCLH and UCL successfully complete world-first trial of a regenerative hearing drug
- Half a million gloves off in UCLH hospitals
- UCLH implements reusable theatre hats to improve sustainability
- UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running!
- Brain cancer patient doing well after world-first immunotherapy treatment
- UCLH specialties shortlisted for good practice in health education
- Last week to share your views on the future of maternity, neonatal and children’s surgical services in North Central London
- UCLH and Whittington Health make case for closer collaboration
- UCLH part of new Mpox trial
- Two UCLH teams shortlisted for 2024 HSJ Digital Awards
- Extended visiting hours during Ramadan
- UCLH signs Armed Forces Covenant
- Blood tests for diagnosing dementia a step closer for UK
- UCLH research contributions at the weekend’s European Association of Urology conference in Paris
- New Charity Matters out now
- UCLH trial of world-first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease progresses into larger trial
- Children’s brain cancer service is designated as a ‘Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence’
- King’s Coronation Medal awarded to our head of operations
- First patients getting individualised risk-reducing therapy for melanoma
- Their Majesties The King and Queen hear families' cancer stories at UCLH
- His Majesty King Charles III accepts patronages of University College Hospital and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- Dangoor Family’s Exilarch’s Foundation gift to speed up pioneering cancer care at UCLH
- BBC documentary heralds a new “treatment era” for Alzheimer’s disease
- Professor Sarah Tabrizi elected to Royal Society for pioneering Huntington's research
- UCLH Delivers its 1000th COVID-19 outreach clinic
- Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer
- Women’s mental agility is better during menstruation
- Industrial action in June and July
- UCLH people recognised in King’s Birthday Honours list
- Launch of new services to support patients with sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, and other inherited red cell disorders
- Health innovation and research in focus at successful community event
- Trial at UCLH aims to prevent colorectal cancer from coming back
- UCLH appoints Jo Moss to director of strategy role
- UCLH nurse’s incredible 50 years’ service
- NHS trusts unite to reduce reliance on single use items
- Supporting sportspeople – from Olympians to amateurs
- Repurposed drug improves outcomes for patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia
- Over 250,000 patients use MyCare UCLH – our patient app and online service
- Collective action by General Practitioners
- Super Saturdays and Mega Clinics at Westmoreland Street
- First participant in Europe joins new myeloma trial at UCLH
- UCLH doctor Chris van Tulleken to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on what happens in our bodies when we eat
- UCLH top in England in CQC inpatient survey for the second year running
- First UK patient receives innovative lung cancer vaccine
- UCLH researchers find way to reduce side effects of treatment for adrenal disorder
- Maternal RSV vaccine launches at UCLH
- Doctors urged to treat patients with sudden hearing loss within seven days
- Prime Minister visits UCLH to meet staff and patients
- In focus: cancer research using proton beam therapy
- RNOH and UCLH to collaborate on Epic Electronic Health Record
- UCLH team wins HSJ Patient Safety Award
- Medical imaging breakthrough could transform cancer and arthritis diagnosis
- UCLH Charity Carol Concert
- New documentary explores Alzheimer’s disease and future treatments
- UCLH nurses announced as RCN Rising Stars 2024
- Newborn babies tested for over 200 genetic conditions in world-leading study at UCLH
A UCLH patient has received T-cell therapy for advanced lung cancer in a world first.
The innovative and personalised therapy – developed by the biopharmaceutical company Achilles Therapeutics – involves the collection of a patient’s blood and tumour samples in order to manufacture individual patient tumour-specific T-cells. These T-cells are then infused into the blood to seek out and eliminate cells in the tumour known as ‘clonal neoantigens’.
Researchers say the clonal neoantigen T-cell (cNeT) therapy has the potential to transform the treatment of cancer.
For the CHIRON study led by Dr Martin Forster, a Consultant Medical Oncologist at UCLH who is supported by the NIHR biomedical research centre at UCLH, researchers will give the cNeT therapy as a single dose to up to 40 patients who have advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – where the 5-year survival rate is just 5%.
They will first be looking at whether the treatment is safe and tolerable for patients, whilst monitoring to see if the treatment reduces tumour size and can improve survival. The study is taking place at sites across the UK.
NSCLC is responsible for 80% of all lung cancer cases. Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide with over 1.6 million deaths per year.
Dr Forster said: “We have been working closely with the Achilles team to design and set up this study across the UK, and are delighted to be dosing the first non-small cell lung cancer patient with this innovative experimental cell therapy here at UCLH, the lead clinical site.”
Dr Iraj Ali, CEO of Achilles Therapeutics, said: “NSCLC remains one of the most prevalent and poorly served of the solid tumours. The CHIRON study is an entirely personalised cell therapy designed to be exquisitely specific and effective and has the potential to help us fundamentally change how certain cancers are treated.”