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Division of Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Division of Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering Newsletter October 2015 Update from Head of Division “I would like to use my opportunity this month to mention research grants. Firstly to congratulate Mary Rutherford and Jo Hajnal on their $3 million NiH award: Structure and function of the placenta from implantation to delivery: a next generation MRI approach. The award was submitted in partnership with Columbia University alongside King’s Co-Investigators Paul Aljabar, Ralph Sinkus, Christina Malamateniou, Lucy Chappell and Dharmintra Pasupathy, in addition to colleagues from University College London and the University of Nottingham. This is a great achievement and I’m sure we will all congratulate the team on their hard work in securing this. In much earlier stages, we have also submitted an application to the Wellcome Trust to part-fund the purchase of a 7T scanner which the Division will host as part of a London consortium. And finally, the Wellcome Trust have invited us to submit an application to renew our Medical Engineering Centre. This would be an excellent opportunity to build on the successes of the last Centre which delivered many of the recruitments and infrastructure projects of the last few years. I will be having preliminary discussions with our academics and the application will be submitted in December.” Reza Razavi What’s happening in the Division? King’s Imaging Blog Divisional Symposium David Lloyd provides the latest update on the iFIND The programme for the first student led Divisional project via his blog post Moving scenes Symposium is nearing completion and all staff and students Carlotta Taddei blogs about her involvement in an are welcome to attend to this showcase of our PhD students’ international collaboration and her secondment in research. Participants can enjoy poster sessions, keynote Amsterdam, Boosting radiochemistry around Europe speakers plus networking opportunities with academics and reps from industry and HEI. Book via Eventbrite Artificial intelligence predicts response to cancer treatment Giovanni Montana and collaborators have designed an artificial intelligence system that predicts whether a cancer patient will respond to chemotherapy. By using a unique algorithm created using images collected from 107 patients diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, and taking a single PET image of the tumour taken before starting the therapy, the Carlotta with her European partners researchers have provided a way to noninvasively predict If you want to write about your research or your public treatment response before therapy, potentially allowing engagement activities then please do get in touch with oncologists to personalise future cancer treatments in the the Newsletter Editor, Alice Taylor-Gee clinic. Read more here. Grant update The KCL Research Development Unit offers a number of resources for grant applications, from courses to videos of talks by funders. You can find out more on their website as well as checking out the Division’s internal website for a short overview of the types of support which is especially likely to be useful to researchers in our division. Congratulations: Anita Montagna, neuroscience PhD student from the Department of Perinatal Imaging & Health has won a Science Communication Award from the Royal Society of Biology. Read news story Mary Rutherford and Jo Hajnal have won a research award from the National Institutes of Health, America’s national medical research agency. The Project will fund technology development and testing to assess placental function throughout pregnancy, with the ultimate goal of improving pregnancy outcomes and lifelong health. Read news story Rafael Torres has been awarded a KHP Research and Development Challenge Fund grant Daniel Rueckert, a supervisor in our CDT has been elected a Royal Academy of Engineering fellow Markus Schirmer and Zaitul Saffee successfully defended their PhD thesis Julia Torres named KCL coordinator for 2016 Pint of Science Festival Phil Blower gave invited talks on rhenium-188 radionuclide therapy in Coimbatore, India, and on cell tracking at the UK Regenerative Medicine Platform safety hub meeting in (slightly less exotic) Liverpool. Phil, along with Jas, & Jim also organised the summer school on Radiochemical Purity measurement, a two day practical course attended by 20 radio pharmacists and radiopharmacy technicians from UK and beyond. Alessia Volpe was selected to give an oral presentation at the "New Advances in Animal Models and Preclinical Imaging for Translational Research in Cancerology 2015" conference in La Turballe. Early Careers Researcher Corner Teaching & Courses The Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging welcomes its 2nd cohort of students who started the term on 21 September. The BEng degree programme has reached its highest intake with over 40 students which is a proud moment for the department. A successful induction took place on 16 October with introductions to the course and college by the energetic Kawal Rhode, Members of the ECR Committee Programme Director for the BEng/MEng and Oleg Aslanidi, Senior Personal Tutor. The students were The committee would like to thank Devis Peressutti who is from various backgrounds, and networked with each leaving the Department of Biomedical Engineering and KCL, for other and with their personal tutors, over a delicious his contribution to the Post Doc Committee. Arna Van Engelen lunch. will be joining the committee this month as a new representative for BME. Equally the division enjoyed the second highest intake on the MRes and MSc RadPET programmes. Invitation for all to attend: Students that will pass on the MSc RadPET Information session on KCL Pension Scheme with Pauline Jobb Date: Thursday 22 October programmes this year will gain recognition from the Time: 1pm – 2pm Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as the programme is Location: Seminar Room, 4th floor Lambeth Wing accredited by the prestigious RSC. Please email your questions and queries to your ECR Representative or directly to the ECR Committee by 12 October. Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Technology and Application Course For more information regarding the ECR committee, events and training please go online. Dates: 21 - 23 March 2016 Venue: Guy’s Campus, King’s College London Fees: £770 corporate, £660 non corporate, £300 student. More information online Image of the month PhD student wins Science Communication Award Anita Montagna, neuroscience PhD student from the Department of Perinatal Imaging & Health has won a Science Communication Award from the Royal Society of Biology. Held annually, the Society's awards are intended to reward science engagement work carried out by research scientists in order to inform and inspire the public. The New Researcher Prize of £750 was awarded to Anita Montagna for her outreach work with children and the design of an innovative new MRI scanner model. Anita said: “I feel honoured. This award is an important acknowledgement of my and other researchers’ efforts. Science is for everybody and the award makes me feel that society recognises and rewards the energy I have put in to engaging the public and communicating my research. It is a genuine reward but it is also a push for me and all my colleagues to keep going.” Anita’s primary research focus involves investigating the neuroplasticity - how life experiences can reorganise the pathways within the brain - of young children born prematurely, and how computerised cognitive training can be of benefit. Anita engaged with families and children through setting up a series of school workshops in order to enthuse potential test participants and emphasise the importance of brain functioning research. The judges were greatly impressed by her inflatable model MRI scanner, designed to prepare young children with a ‘mock’ of the real experience, to ensure a positive experience for the participant and a clear scan for the researchers. The award will be presented at the RSB’s Annual Award Ceremony on Thursday 15th October during Biology Week 2015. Showcasing our research 3D heart models, made from patients with heart conditions from Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children's Hospital, won the ‘Organiser’s Choice’ best stand with the British Heart Foundation at the Labour Party conference in Brighton. The stand was there to highlight the importance of research to politicians. Alberto Gomez also worked with the BHF on their research stand by City Hall, talking with business Kawal Rhode at the winning stand leaders as part of a Santander partner event about his research into heart conditions. He was joined by Lucas Hadjilucas; both are post docs in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Alberto Gomez ready to engage with business leaders Public engagement A selection of public engagement opportunities to get involved in – please contact Alice Taylor-Gee if you are interested in taking part in any of these. Funding *New* King’s College London Public Engagement Small Grants King's College London is one of 10 universities that has been awarded funding from Research Councils UK as part of the new Public Engagement with Research Catalyst Seed Fund. King's will use this award to help to pilot a new approach to strengthening the relationship between engagement and clinical research. This has led to new funding via the Public Engagement Small Grants. PhD students, research staff and academic staff are invited to apply for a small grant of up to £750 to deliver a public engagement activity. There will be two application rounds this year, closing 9 November 2015 and 11 April 2016. Priority will be given to projects which facilitate two-way communication (dialogue): for example, activities which enable audiences to share their views on the future direction of research in a particular area. The primary audience(s) for activities should be non-specialists, e.g. families, school children, community groups. Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund Through the fund we aim to encourage and support the development of projects that raise awareness of chemistry in people’s everyday lives, and/or develop the science communication skills of those who are already highly trained in chemistry.
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