School of Basic & Medical Biosciences

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[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

🚀 We spoke with Lois Anderson about the Space 4 All Community.

Read more: https://t.co/6DnMeByoV5

And the 2025 Space 4 All Challenge is now live 👉 https://t.co/eJIKW0GGj5

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Congratulations to Dr Robert Seaborne @KCLBMBioscience who has been awarded a New Investigator Grant from @The_MRC. The award will support his work focused on understanding the role of skeletal muscle in motor neurone disease.
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/S8377E4ULf

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Researchers from @KingsCollegeLon have used the world’s most advanced electron microscope to reveal the complete architecture of the bacterial flagellum - a molecular machine essential for bacteria to cause infection, that could be a target for antibiotics https://t.co/0BeA0ZpsSO

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

Congratulations to Professor Jody Rosenblatt on being elected to the EMBO Membership 👏

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Jody Rosenblatt, Professor of Cell Biology at King’s and Principal Group Leader at the @TheCrick, has been elected to the EMBO Membership in recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements

https://t.co/PCbUYAWqVK

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

A team led by @UniofExeter, in collaboration with Prof Carsten Flohr & Dr Helen Alexander from St John’s Institute of Dermatology @KingsCollegeLon, has been awarded £3.3m from @The_MRC to investigate the role of fungi in the development of eczema https://t.co/vri0uL5grO @PPopDerm

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

Many congratulations to Professor Sophia Karagiannis 👏

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Congratulations to Professor Sophia Karagiannis on receiving the EAACI Research Fellow Award 2025 from the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology @EAACI_HQ.

The award recognises EAACI members who have excelled in the field of allergy and clinical immunology.

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Congratulations to Professor Carsten Flohr @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience who has received a pump-priming award from @eczemasociety as part of its first-ever research grant round.

Read more about the project ⬇️ https://t.co/gL4w7FpU2h

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

📢 Applications are open for a PhD studentship looking at modelling respiratory physiology during acute exposures to altitude to enable digital test and evaluation of future fast-jet environmental control and life support systems.

Deadline: 4 June
Apply: https://t.co/tkh90tfUj0

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

New research from @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience has found that fat stored around the abdomen is more strongly linked to psoriasis risk than total body fat, particularly in women ⬇️ https://t.co/le3BAyo3Gx

[Experimental Physiology @ExpPhysiol]

Read this #Review from Oliver Witard (@KCLBMBioscience) et al., who featured as a runner-up for our 2024 Mid-Career Researcher prize! His review focusses on nutrition interventions to improve muscle mass & functional outcomes post-orthopaedic surgery!

📖 https://t.co/eBydyoNdG9

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Research from Prof Snezhana Oliferenko's group @KingsCollegeLon @TheCrick shows that the transfer of genes from bacteria to more complex organisms like yeast can give the new host a survival advantage, but it requires rewiring of the host’s biology ⬇️ https://t.co/5c2gFIRZlU

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

“Understanding the biology of how a treatment works is essential for bringing treatments closer to patients" - Professor @SophiaKaragiann.

Read more about a new study that looked at how a new type of antibody treatment interacts with different immune cells in ovarian cancer ⬇️

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Research led by @KingsCollegeLon @SophiaKaragiann has shed light on how a new type of antibody treatment, called MOv18 IgE, reactivates patients’ immune cells to fight ovarian cancer ⬇️ https://t.co/NwHeEslCHD

@DebraJosephs1 @GSTTnhs @MedUni_Wien @kingshealth @CRUKCOLcentre

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Congratulations to Professor John McGrath, Mary Dunhill Chair in Cutaneous Medicine at St John’s Institute of Dermatology @KingsCollegeLon, who is recipient of the BSID Medal 2025, awarded for his contributions to dermatological research.
Read more: https://t.co/wRqI18izin

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

Read about recent work from Dr Julien Bergeron from our Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics on a newly identified bacterial protein which could help with design of cancer drug delivery system 🦠⬇️

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Researchers @KingsCollegeLon @UWMedicine have identified a previously unknown protein in a family of bacteria found in soil and the human gut microbiome, which could help drug delivery in cancer treatment.

Read more ⤵️ https://t.co/4J6RhqXWSi

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

New research by @DrTziotzios, from St John's Institute of Dermatology, and colleagues has found an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing frontal fibrosing alopecia.
Read more below ⤵️

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Scientists @KingsCollegeLon @KCLBMBioscience have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing a type of alopecia ⬇️ https://t.co/0QjRqg4I5x

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

Congratulations to Professor Sergio Padilla-Parra from our Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics who delivered his inaugural lecture earlier this week 👏 His lecture was titled 'Illuminating virus entry'

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Tonight, we’re celebrating the Inaugural Lectures of Professor Sergi Padilla-Parra and Professor Paul Taylor 🎓

Full details of the upcoming events in the series, along with recordings of previous lectures, can be found here: https://t.co/vOjzuxhv3u

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart – an important process for maintaining heart health ⬇️
@maxplanckpress @KCLBMBioscience @KingsCollegeLon @Kings_BHFCentre https://t.co/rrjJl3YQoX

[School of Basic & Medical Biosciences @KCLBMBioscience]

Congratulations to Michael Antoniou, Professor in Molecular Genetics in our Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, who delivered his inaugural lecture yesterday 👏 https://t.co/bbhLf0CaT1

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

Congrats to Professor Michael Antoniou who delivered his Inaugural Lecture this evening.

His talk, "Glyphosate herbicides: safer than table salt or deceptively toxic?", highlighted the need to reassess regulatory limits.

Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/vOjzuxi2T2

[King's College London @KingsCollegeLon]

Continued global warming will lead to more parts of the planet becoming too hot for the human body over the coming decades, finds a new assessment, led by researchers in @KingsSSPP and @kingsmedicine. ⬇️

https://t.co/I3SY7pC9aK

@Kings_SGA

[King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine @kingsmedicine]

As part of our Ageing Well campaign, Dr @OllyWitard tells us about age-related muscle loss and shares some tips for how older adults can help to maintain their muscles with advancing age.

Read more from Olly on this topic ➡️ https://t.co/UKxlXA2iS3 @KingsCollegeLon