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Barts Health helps improve representation of black people in science through collaborative internship programme

April 26, 2021 11:15 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Barts Health has joined a new programme designed to help get more black men and women into the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) community. Together with Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and in partnership with the 10,000 Black Interns initiative and the UK Health Data Research Alliance (HDR Alliance), a total of 54 interns, including over 30 women will start paid work experience as...


Significant gender disparities revealed in COVID-19 clinical trial leadership

March 12, 2021 2:26 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Less than one-third of COVID-19 clinical trials are led by women, which is half the proportion observed in non-COVID-19 trials, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London, University of St Andrews, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The study suggests that gender disparities during the pandemic may signify not only a lack of women’s leadership...


Convincing evidence that type 2 diabetes is associated with increased risk of Parkinson’s

March 12, 2021 2:21 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Research from Queen Mary University of London has concluded that there is convincing evidence that type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. 21 per cent increased risk of developing Parkinson’s. However, because Parkinson’s only affects around 1-2 per cent of people over the age of 60, people with type 2 diabetes still have a very...


Having an unhealthy heart could lead to a higher risk of being diagnosed with COVID-19

March 12, 2021 2:18 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

People with unhealthy heart structures and poorer functioning hearts have a significantly higher risk of being diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, according to research by Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (The University of Southampton). The researchers made use of the comprehensive and internationally unique UK Biobank database, which includes health and...


Barts Life Sciences are recruiting for our second digital fellow post for our AI research programme CAP-AI

March 11, 2021 10:26 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Pleased to announce Barts Life Sciences are recruiting for our second digital fellow post for CAP-AI, our pioneering research programme, aiming to place healthcare in East London at the forefront of the AI and technology revolution. More information and how to apply can be found here: http://jobs.bartshealth.nhs.uk/job/v3008688


New class of drug leads to 30 per cent reduced risk of death for bladder cancer patients

February 22, 2021 9:06 am Published by Leave your thoughts

A new type of drug that helps target chemotherapy directly to cancer cells has been found to significantly increase survival of patients with the most common form of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III clinical trial led in the UK by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. The results are published in the New...


SNPnexus: A valuable tool in the fight against COVID-19

February 8, 2021 10:52 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary University of London, have released a web-based tool called SNPnexus COVID (https://www.snp-nexus.org/v4/covid/) to streamline the analysis of host genetic sequencing data and allow for the identification and prioritisation of genetic variants that may impact an individual’s susceptibility to and the severity of COVID-19 infection. Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, global initiatives to...