Mr Babulal Sethia will today be inaugurated as President of the Royal Society of Medicine. A consultant congenital heart surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Mr Sethia will take over from Professor Sir Michael Rawlins. Mr Sethia has published widely on aspects of congenital heart disease in children and adults. For the past 15 years he has been active in helping to develop cardiac services on an humanitarian basis in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America.
15 July, 2014
This year the TV presenter and National Geographic explorer Lucy Cooke met with school students to give an insight into the different directions a career in science can take. The talk to students forms part of the UCB’s annual Work in Science week, which take place each year at the company’s UK R&D headquarters in Slough.
14 July, 2014
Domainex Ltd, a UK-based drug discovery company developing first-in-class small-molecule inhibitors of two closely-related pro-inflammatory kinases - TBK1 and IKK-epsilon (IKK?)-, today announced that its lead compound has demonstrated a more potent effect in a key model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than either roflumulast or a p38 inhibitor. It has also successfully won a £1.4m Biomedical Catalyst Award to support further development towards Phase I clinical studies.
09 July, 2014