Message from the laboratories at Imperial College London: Hand hygiene and bacteria .

Hygiene: Kew Green Preparatory School

What are the advantages of taking part in clinical trials?

Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU)  video for potential trial participants

Imperial is recruiting healthy volunteers to take part in the first trials of two new Ebola vaccines. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 June 2015)

Ebola vaccine trials

A discovery that could lead to a new cancer therapy and a look ahead to our big event on 9-10 May. (Extract 1 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 April 2015)

News: T cells and the Imperial Festival 

News: A skin-eating fungal disease brought from Asia by the pet trade poses a threat to European amphibians. (Extract 1 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 12 November 2014)

Salamanders in peril

A short animation film about Influenza, commissioned by the MOSAIC consortium. Designed and Produced by Steve Appleby and Peter Bishop, with scientific input from Professor Peter Openshaw and Dr Calum Semple.

How to Catch Flu

Researchers have found evidence that a large gap exists between the number of recorded TB cases and the true underlying incidence. The study published in Lancet Global Health, shows that TB in children is a major public health problem.

New study involving Imperial College London estimates over 50 million children infected with tuberculosis

This video clip shows how the flu virus can spread through a community using an interactive display of dominoes set up over a city-scape. It also shows how vaccines (immunisations) can protect individuals, their family, friends and contacts

How to Catch the Flu. MOSAIC @ Imperial Festival 2014

Professor Peter Openshaw looks at the challenges these viruses create and how we could lessen the impact of future pandemics.

Spanish Flu to Swine Flu

Medical student Thomas Webb has designed a drug that could defeat the most resistant bacteria – but he needs donations to put it to the test. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 15 January 2014)

A new antibiotic?

Professor Sheena McCormack (Medicine) discusses the trials and tribulations of HIV prevention in her inaugural lecture.

HIV today, gone tomorrow?

Professor Alison Holmes and Esmita Charani describe how their research has highlighted the cultural norms that affect doctors' decisions to prescribe antibiotics.

What factors influence antibiotic use in hospitals?

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove explains how a WHO-led project analysing the 2009 pandemic will help us plan for future flu outbreaks. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 27 February 2013)

Learning from the 2009 flu pandemic

Professor Sunil Shaunak explains how controlling excessive immune responses could reduce deaths from bacterial infections.

A new strategy for treating infections

A new study by Professor Nick Grassly evaluates the impact of new vaccines on efforts to eradicate polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Extract 2 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 11 July 2012)

Polio’s last stand

Professor Nick Grassly discusses how we can make poliovirus vaccines more effective in the developing world in his inaugural lecture.

Oral vaccines: making them work in children who need them

Professor Beate Kampmann talks about her experiences researching childhood immunity in Africa in her inaugural lecture.

Travel with T cells- a journey into childhood immunity and global health

Professor Simon Gregson, Professor in Demography and Behavioural Science, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Part of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health Seminar Programme. 14th March 2012.

What Caused the HIV Decline in Zimbabwe?

Wendy Barclay

Controversial research into transmissible strains of H5N1 influenza should not be censored, argues the Professor of Virology. (Extract 4 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 29 February 2012)

Bird flu studies must be published – Wendy Barclay

An Imperial study has found that doxycycline prevents lung destruction caused by tuberculosis bacteria. (Extract 1 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 29 February 2012)

Old antibiotic could help fight TB

Infectious Disease

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