biomedical research centre

(King's College London) The specialist National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London has been awarded nearly £1 million from the NIHR to support the development of the BRC's Case Register Interactive Search system.

(King's College London) Persistent inflammation and the activation of the immune system is the key pathological mechanism affecting many long-term conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, and others.

A group of London-based researchers hope that they will be able to identify biomarkers in the tissue and blood, which in future could be used to diagnose these conditions, to predict how they will develop and how an individual will respond to treatment.

(King's College London) An increased understanding of the role of the body's immune system in the development of diseases such as prostate cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, type 1 diabetes, autoimmune liver disease and in the rejection of transplanted organs by some transplant patients, has paved the way for a pioneering research program which aims to develop "enhanced" cells as therapies.