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A record 119 patients have been recruited to the UCLH-led, charitably funded, IPI-GLIO immunotherapy clinical trial for NHS patients recently diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer.

UCLH, UCL and spinout company Odin Vision have used artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect early signs of oesophageal cancer in a global first.

Two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine induce lower levels of antibodies that are able to recognise and fight the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) than against other strains, according to laboratory findings from UCLH and the Francis Crick Institute.

A combination of two drugs could be an effective treatment for the debilitating disease lupus, according to preliminary evidence from a UCLH led trial.

Researchers at the NIHR UCLH Clinical Research Facility are the first in the world to start a new first-in-human trial investigating a novel treatment, called NVG-111, in patients with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) subtypes.