December 2011 - Imperial College Faculty of Medicine - Imperial ...

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Letter from the Head of Institute
NHLI in the News
Techniques and Facilities
Awards and Prizes
Upcoming Meetings, Events and Lectures
Regular Meetings
Other
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Letter from the Head of Institute
Last week, I hosted my first Open Meeting as Head of Institute (HoI). I touched a
little about my background and experience as HoI since starting in September. I
discussed the management and administrative structure of the Institute, space
issues and the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Ms Ann Kelly, Head of
Faculty HR Operations, kindly discussed the College's staff survey.
Feedback was requested on NHLI's various areas (communications, research
events, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, etc) and details of NHLI's
calendar for the next 12 months was put forward.
A copy of the slides as well as a feedback form is available online:
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/aboutus/open_meeting/. The open meeting and
online feedback is an opportunity for you to discuss current issues and for us to work
together towards influencing the path ahead. I strongly encourage all to provide
feedback and ideas – together, the Institute will thrive!
The meeting was followed by the Athena Open Meeting, launching the 12 months to
renewal of our Silver SWAN award. Professor Clare Lloyd and Dr Emma Watson
updated the Institute on NHLI’s progress on achieving its Action Plan and call for
ideas and volunteers for the year ahead.

It is absolutely crucial that we work together towards Athena’s aims of assisting the
recruitment, retention and progression of women in Science, Engineering and
Technology. By working towards such aims, we will ensure that NHLI is an
outstanding place to work as good practice and opportunities benefit everyone.
Details of the application, the open meeting and the feedback form can be accessed
online: http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/womeninscience/athenaswan/
I look forward to hearing your feedback and discussing the Institute’s future.
With best wishes,
Professor Kim Fox
Head, National Heart & Lung Institute
NHLI in the News
‘Artist Gina Czarnecki on her retrospective exhibition at the Bluecoat’ - Liverpool
Echo
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echoentertainment/2011/12/05/artist-gina-czarnecki-on-her-retrospective-exhibition-atthe-bluecoat-100252-29893753/
‘Baby-tooth sculpture unveiled’ – BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16069220
‘Stem cells discovery gets hearts pumping’ - Irish Independent
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/stem-cells-discovery-gets-hearts-pumping-
2934331.html
‘Heart repair with stem cells 'biggest breakthrough in a generation'’ - Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8888447/Heart-repair-with-stem-cellsbiggest-breakthrough-in-a-generation.html
‘Mucosis Announces New Scientific Advisory Board’- b3c newswire
http://www.b3cnewswire.com/20111115621/mucosis-announces-new-scientificadvisory-board.html
‘Results of the ADVISE trial reported at TCT 2011’- EurekAlert
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/crf-rot_6111111.php
‘Blind hope’ – Imperial podcast
Podcast: http://bit.ly/vnM3fe
‘ADVISE: New Tool May Help Determine Stent and Angioplasty Appropriateness’ –
angioplasty.org
http://www.ptca.org/news/2011/1207_IFR.html

‘Improved technology may obviate need for drug when assessing patients for a
coronary stent’ – Eurekalert
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/icl-itm120711.php
‘Takeda's Edarbi® (azilsartan medoxomil) Receives European Marketing
Authorisation for the Treatment of Essential Hypertension’ – PRnewsire.co.uk
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=342368
‘New £8m blast injury research centre opens at Imperial’ – BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16073236
‘The thought-provoking 'tooth fairy palace’‘ – BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16009883
‘Combat boots that deflect blast of roadside bombs being designed at new £8m
research centre’ – The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8940510/Combat-boots-thatdeflect-blast-of-roadside-bombs-being-designed-at-new-8m-research-centre.html
Techniques and Facilities
NHLI Room Bookings
Tony Rocha will be leaving NHLI at the end of the month to join the ICT team as IT
Support Engineer. We wish him well in his new job.
As of today, all booking requests for the following rooms should be directed to
room.bookings@imperial.ac.uk:
Guy Scadding Building:
• G220, Ground floor*
• Rm330, First floor*
• Rm331, First floor*
• Seminar Room A, Education Centre**
• Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, Education Centre**
• Refectory, Education Centre**
• Conservatory , Education Centre**
Emmanuel Kaye Building
• G62*
• G63*
Sir Alexander Fleming Building
• Rm111, First floor
• Rm364, Third floor
*NHLI staff and students only
**Please note the usual fees occur with the Education Centre bookings.

Awards and Prizes
Ms Katie Baker – CIMPP poster prize for her poster entitled: ‘Imaging receptor
microdomains on leukocyte subsets in live mice using intravital microscopy’.
Professor Mike Ferenczi – Appointed a member of the European Synchroton
Radiation Facility (ESRF) Science Advisory Committee.
Mr Davide Grandolfo – One of ten international scientists selected to give a talk on
his research at MedImmune’s Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity Abstract
Competition, Gaithersburg, USA.
Dr Anupama Vydyanath – Awarded 2 nd Prize in the Freeze-Frames competition for
her presentation entitled ‘Electron tomography analysis of Myosin binding protein-C’
at the annual meeting of the Cryomicroscopy Group, Nottingham. The competition
consisted of presentation of the entrant's research in 90 seconds with just 2 slides.
Upcoming Meetings, Events and Lectures
Distinguished Centre for Respiratory Infections (CRI) Lecture Series
‘Tuberculosis: From basic immunology to rational vaccine design’ presented by
Professor Stefan Kaufmann, Director of the Department of Immunology, Max
Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
Monday 12 December 2011, 4pm, Rothschild Lecture Theatre, 2 nd Floor, School of
Medicine, Norfolk Place, St Mary’s Campus
Vascular endothelium: 'Role in disease pathogenesis & as a therapeutic target'
14 th Imperial College London Symposium
Thursday 15 December 2011, 09:00 - 17:00, Hammersmith House Conference
Centre, Hammersmith Campus
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/medicine/heartandl
unginstitute/eventssummary/event_14-7-2011-16-26-19
British Pharmacological Society – Winter Meeting
Stem cells: Pharmacology and therapeutics
Wednesday 14 December 2011, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Download the full programme at Stem cells – pharmacology and therapeutics -YP
Symposium
British Pharmacological Society – Winter Meeting
Working towards the understanding of TRPA1
Wednesday 14 December 2011, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Download the full programme at Working towards the understanding of TRPA1
British Pharmacological Society – Winter Meeting

The cannabinoid system as a target for cardiovascular disease
Thursday 15 December 2011, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Download the full programme at The cannabinoid system as a target for
cardiovascular disease.
Distinguished Centre for Respiratory Infections (CRI) Lecture Series
‘Function and regulation of innate IL-17 in infection and autoimmunity’ presented by
Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology, Head School of
Biochemistry and Immunology, Director Immunology Research Centre, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland
Tuesday 10 January 2012, 5pm, Rothschild Lecture Theatre, 2 nd Floor, School of
Medicine, Norfolk Place, St Mary’s Campus
Inaugural Lecture – Professor Gianni Angelini
Tuesday 24 January 2012, 5.30pm, G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South
Kensington Campus
Institute of Biomedical Engineering Cardiovascular Technology Network
Fifth Symposium – First Announcement – Call for Papers and Registration
Wednesday 8 February 2012, Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, Education Centre, Guy
Scadding Building, Royal Brompton Campus
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/eventssummary/ev
ent_1-12-2011-17-8-3
Royal Society of Medicine – Fellows in respiratory training nurture colloquium
2 and 3 February 2012, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G
0AE
This event is open to physicians, allied health professionals or scientists who are
engaged in an independently funded training programme (PhD, MD) in respiratory
disease or who are employed within an academic institution and are within two years
of completing a PhD or MD.
http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/rmc01.php
Distinguished Centre for Respiratory Infections (CRI) Lecture Series
‘Virus and host genetics of pandemic H1N1/09 influenza infection’ presented by
Professor Paul Kellam, Virus Genomics team leader, Senior Investigator at the
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Professor of Viral Pathogenesis at University
College London
Tuesday 14 February 2012, 5pm, Rothschild Lecture Theatre, 2 nd Floor, School of
Medicine, Norfolk Place, St Mary’s Campus
Inaugural Lecture – Professor Thomas Brand
Thursday 23 February 2012, 5.30pm, G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South
Kensington Campus
Distinguished Centre for Respiratory Infections (CRI) Lecture Series
‘DC’s in influenza and asthma’presented by Professor Bart Lambrecht,
Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology. Professor of Pulmonary
Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 5pm, Rothschild Lecture Theatre, 2 nd Floor, School of
Medicine, Norfolk Place, St Mary’s Campus
Ig Nobel Awards Tour
Thursday 15 March 2012
Inaugural Lecture – Professor Ralph Knöll
Wednesday 21 March 2012, 5.30pm, G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South
Kensington Campus
Annual Respiratory Margaret-Turner Warwick Lecture
Presented by Professor John West, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and
Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
Wednesday 13 June 2012, 5.30pm, Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, Guy Scadding
Building, Royal Brompton Campus
NHLI Postgraduate Research Day 2012
Friday 22 June 2012, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus.
BHF Centre of Research Excellence Symposium
Thursday and Friday 28 and 29 June 2012, Wolfson Conference Centre,
Hammersmith Campus
Graduate School Research Symposium
Friday 13 July 2012, South Kensington Campus
Regular Meetings
Scheduling and Audit Meeting in Pacing and Cardiac Electrophysiology
Mondays, 8-9.30am, Catheter Lab 4, Sydney Street, Royal Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Vias Markides
Paediatric Joint Cardiac Conference
Mondays, 8-9am, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Piers Daubeney
Paediatric Cardiac Grand Round
Mondays, 9-9.45am, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Piers Daubeney
Paediatric and Fetal Echo Meeting
Tuesdays, 8-9.30am, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Julene Carvalho
Multi-Disciplinary Angina Meeting

Tuesdays, 12-2.30pm, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Christine Wright
Congenital Cardiac Catheter Intervention Meeting
Tuesdays, 8-9.30am, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Professor Michael Gatzoulis
Cardiovascular Grand Round
Wednesdays, 8-9.00am (except clinical governance week), Paul Wood Lecture
Theatre, Guy Scadding Building, Royal Brompton Campus
Clinical governance weeks - 1.00 to 2.00pm on day allocated - location as above
Contact: Angela Queen
Clinical Cardiovascular MR Meeting
Thursdays, 1-2pm, CMR Seminar Room, Royal Brompton Hospital
Contact: Professor Raad Mohiaddin
Respiratory Grand Round
Fridays, 8-9am, Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, Guy Scadding Building, Royal
Brompton Campus
Contact: Nikki Laybourne
Paediatric Joint Cardiac Conference
Thursdays, 8-9am, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Piers Daubeney
Adult Congenital Heart Rounds
Fridays, 8-9.30pm, Seminar Room 1, Sydney Street, Royal Brompton Hospital
Contact: Professor Michael Gatzoulis
Echocardiography Teaching Meeting
Fridays, 1-2.30pm, Cardiology Seminar Room, Level 3, Chelsea Wing, Royal
Brompton Hospital
Contact: Dr Alison Duncan
Adult Congenital Heart Open Research Meeting
2 nd Thursday of the month, 1-2pm, Seminar Room 1, Sydney Street, Royal Brompton
Hospital
Contact: Professor Michael Gatzoulis
Other
‘I love Pharmacology’ t-shirts
The Young Pharmacologists’ Committee of the British Pharmacological Society
(BPS) is proud to be part of the society’s initiative to raise money to support African

students to attend the 17th World Congress of Pharmacology in Cape Town, South
Africa during 2014. We trust this will create an incredibly valuable experience for
young enthusiastic pharmacologists with limited funds to travel to and attend an
international conference. As our contribution, we are selling “I love Pharmacology” t-
shirts for £5 each from the BPS booth during meetings. To buy a t-shirt for yourself
and your colleagues, visit www.bps.ac.uk/meetings for a full list of upcoming
conferences, then visit us at the BPS booth.
Daniel Reed and Jane Mitchell
http://www.iuphar.org/pdf/Pharmacology_International_2011_December.pdf
fairy.
PALACES is the result of a
collaboration between artist
Gina Czarnecki and stem
cell biologist Professor Sara
Rankin. The project is a
participatory piece of art that
involves primary school
children across the UK.
Children will be asked to
donate a single milk tooth to
help build the palace. They
will be given a tooth token in
return that they can leave
under their pillow for the tooth
The project has multiple meanings and interpretations depending on the audience
and is designed primarily to promote dialogue and debate.
For children the project provides an opportunity to become (quite literally) part of a
sculpture that will be exhibited across the UK (currently in Liverpool at the bluecoat),
and next year in London at the Science Museum and the Centre of the Cell. The
project is about highlighting the potential of adult (as opposed to embryonic) stem
cells that can be harvested from many tissues currently regarded as clinical waste,
including umbilical cords, fat from liposuction and indeed baby teeth. It is also
importantly about altruistic donation of a body part that is relevant both for building
national stem cell banks and transplants.
Prof Rankin will be giving a public talk in Bluecoat art gallery - Weds 8 February
2012 and running 9 stem cell workshops for up to 200 pupils from Liverpool’s
schools Jan 17-19 th . There will be a Wellcome Trust funded public debate on Wed
8 th Feb 2012.
The sculpture was commissioned by the Bluecoat and funded by the Bluecoat,
Imperial College (Faculty of Medicine) and Professor Rankin’s Wellcome Trust
Senior Investigator Award.
For more info about the project http://palaces.org.uk/
Some of the press coverage:

• http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/04/its-got-teeth---but-is-itart.html
• http://www.metro.co.uk/news/860581-tooth-fairy-out-of-work-as-childrenencourage-to-give-teeth-for-artwork
• http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2011/09/02/question-investigate-andshare/
Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies
The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London
is the first collaboration of its kind in the UK, where civilian engineers and scientists
will work alongside military doctors, supported by charitable funding, to reduce the
effects of roadside bombs or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) - the leading
cause of death and injury for Service personnel on operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq. The goals of the new Centre are to increase understanding about blast injury
patterns, improve treatments and recovery and develop better ways of protecting
those serving in current and future conflicts - thus reducing the long-term impacts of
such injuries on individuals, their families and the community.
The Royal British Legion, the leading Armed Forces charity, which provides support
and advice and campaigns on behalf of the whole Armed Forces community, is
providing £5 million to establish the Centre. Imperial College London will lead on the
scientific research, which builds on the work already carried out by the Imperial Blast
research group at the College.
Professor Anthony Bull, from the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College
London, is the Director of the new Centre.
Professor Sara Rankin has been appointed as Theme Lead for Blast Biology and
Therapeutics in the new £8m Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at
Imperial College London. Professor Rankin will initially lead projects that investigate
the effects of blast on stem cells and lung tissue.
• http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssumma
ry/news_7-12-2011-10-32-36
• http://www.imperialblast.org.uk/members/
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