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Issue 298 ▸ 25 November 2016 Reportersharing Stories of Imperial’S Community Issue 298 ▸ 25 november 2016 reporterSharing stories of Imperial’s community Critical Mass Researchers and students mobilise for a nuclear energy revival → centre pages INNOVATION GLOBAL REACH RAPID RESULTS DESTINATION The innovative Scientists Imperial Global MBA develop an launches new and the HIV test in innovation hub students a pen drive at White City benefiting PAGE 7 PAGE 3 PAGE 10 2 >> newsupdate www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 25 November 2016 • issue 298 The Queen opens the Francis Crick Institute The Queen and The Duke of founding partners, alongside the further 250 support staff. Edinburgh, accompanied by Medical Research Council (MRC), During their tour of the Crick, EDITOR’S CORNER The Duke of York, opened the Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, The Queen and The Duke of £650 million Francis Crick Institute UCL (University College London), Edinburgh saw some of the state- in London this month. and King’s College London. of-the-art facilities for research. Powering The Crick is bringing scientists They spoke with Imperial’s The Crick is the biggest biomedical together from across disciplines President, Professor Alice Gast, ahead research institute under one roof to tackle the pressing health and representatives of the other in Europe and is investigating concerns of the 21st century. founding partners. the fundamental biology underlying At full capacity in 2017, it will Imperial’s President Professor As a society there are human health and disease. Imperial be home to 1,250 researchers, Alice Gast said: “The opening of few more important and College London is one of its including from Imperial, and a The Francis Crick Institute confirms controversial topics than London’s central place as a leader that of energy – and in medical research. It is an awe- ensuring its sustainable inspiring space for brilliant science supply. No doubt it will which will strengthen the fight have been on the agenda against cancer, heart disease, for Imperial academics infections and neurodegeneration. and students who “Imperial’s strategy says that travelled to Marrakech for no university can realise the full the COP22 climate summit benefits of its work by itself. We are (right). Meanwhile, a proud to be a founding member and new centre at Imperial’s we look forward to building on our Business School is aiming collective strengths to shape the to help investors make future of biomedical research.” better decisions about Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute, Sir Paul Nurse with The Queen —LAURA GALLAGHER, COMMUNICATIONS AND energy infrastructure PUBLIC AFFAIRS (page 4). Nuclear power adds another level of controversy to the debate, but there is something approaching a consensus now among experts Climate mission that nuclear should form part of a diverse in Morocco energy portfolio which includes wind, solar, Representatives from Imperial travelled to Morocco carbon capture and other last week to attend the United Nations climate change technologies (see bit.ly/ conference (COP22). hinkleyc). From a purely engineering perspective, Staff, students and climate communicators engaged I’ve always been with international policymakers, learned about the fascinated by nuclear negotiation process and talked about how research, power – that we humans innovation and finance can provide solutions to the Grantham Institute PhD students Arnaud Koehl, Oliver Schmidt and Daniel Hdidouan at the conference venue in Marrakech can harness the immense climate change problem. power of atomic bonds The Grantham Institute, together with Imperial for peaceful gains. But College Business School, also organised an official side- from industrialised nations to those at risk from the it requires tremendous event at the conference, to encourage discussion about effects, rules about tracking progress of mitigation, expertise to do it safely. how investment banks that target companies developing and the potential to use trading or market mechanisms Imperial has long been at low-emission technologies, and other funding schemes to deliver its goals. the forefront of that effort, will be needed to tackle climate change. Grantham Institute Co-Director, Professor Joanna and aims to continue to The Paris Agreement was drawn up at the COP21 Haigh, said: “It was remarkable that 197 countries play a role (centre pages). conference in Paris in December 2015, where 197 nations unanimously reached an agreement in Paris. A further agreed to limit global warming to ‘well below two achievement is that the treaty has legally entered into ANDREW CZYZEWSKI, EDITOR degrees’ above pre-industrial temperatures, and to aim force within less than 12 months. Reporter is published every for a more ambitious limit of one and a half degrees. “Now, of course, the harder work begins in month during term time As next steps, delegates at the COP22 conference finding routes to achieve the stated objectives,” in print and online. Contact will flesh out details of the concepts and principles said Professor Haigh. Andrew Czyzewski: agreed in Paris. Amongst these are provisions for [email protected] —SIMON LEVEY, GRANTHAM INSTITUTE – CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT adapting to climate change, financial contributions 3 www.imperial.ac.uk/reporter | reporter | 25 November 2016 • issue 298 >> newsupdate Imperial launches its new hub Climate change health for innovation at White City risks probed The I-HUB, Imperial’s new A new initiative has launched this month to understand translation and innovation the ‘catastrophic risk to human health’ caused by hub, launched last month climate change. at the White City Campus. Academics from 16 organisations including Imperial will Providing more than 185,000 establish a range of measures, for example tracking the square foot of new laboratory, spread of infectious diseases, deaths or illness resulting incubator, accelerator and from heatwaves or droughts, and health problems caused office space, the facility will by air pollution. enable the co-location of start- The initiative was ups, entrepreneurs, and major announced on Monday at the corporations alongside United Nations climate change Imperial’s academic community. conference (COP22) taking A core aim of the 13-storey place in Marrakech, Morocco. building will be to support the Researchers Dr Kris Murray commercialisation and translation at the Grantham Institute and of research and innovation for the Professor Paolo Vineis at the benefit of society. School of Public Health are Welcoming representatives contributing. from industry, partners and Hammersmith Professor Sir Brian and Fulham Borough Council to the launch, Imperial’s Vice President (Innovation), Hoskins, an eminent expert Professor David Gann, said: “We are delighted to be opening this new landmark in meteorology and climate hub for innovation, incubation and collaboration, reaffirming London’s position change and chair of the Grantham Institute – at the forefront in applying leading-edge science. Businesses in the I-HUB will Climate Change and the Environment, at Imperial, be focused on taking fantastic research ideas out into the market where they can said: “It is important to note that an average rise of have a direct positive impact for society.” two degrees Celsius will mean melting ice and permafrost The I-HUB is operated by Imperial College ThinkSpace, which provides high in polar regions but also the hottest regions of the Earth quality laboratory and office workspaces to companies at every stage of their warming to a climate not seen on Earth while humans growth, co-locating them with Imperial. have inhabited the planet. The building is the second to open at Imperial’s White City Campus – “Populous coastal regions can expect to see a research and innovation centre that is in its initial stages of development. more flooding with sea levels rising by perhaps half At the 25-acre site, researchers, businesses and higher education partners a meter, with all the problems that entails for health will co-locate to create value from ideas on a global scale. and sanitation. The weather will change for entire The launch was followed by a two day Global Challenge Showcase at the regions, leading to problems for people, agriculture I-HUB, with guests from industry and partner organisations invited to find out and livelihoods that may be caused by, for example, more about Imperial research and the new facility. heavier rain storms and increased water shortages.” —JOHN-PAUL JONES, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS —SIMON LEVEY, GRANTHAM INSTITUTE – CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Creative Quarter 2016 Screen star in surgical sim Imperial students and Alan Alda – the renowned actor, “No direction? researchers joined forces with writer, director, and presenter musicians from the Royal Albert – visited Imperial this month, Well that’s just typical Hall to bring science to life on meeting researchers and trying of universes these days. in brief the streets of South Kensington. simulated surgery. Mr Alda is an As part of Creative Quarter 2016, enthusiastic supporter of science It needs to buck its ideas organised by Discover South who has presented long-running up or it will just drift on Kensington, groups of ‘science science programmes on PBS and buskers’ lined Exhibition Road helped to found the Alan Alda into heat death, just like to demonstrate the science Center for Communicating of music and sound. Creative Science at Stony Brook University. that feckless, layabout Quarter is an annual event in He met several
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