What are the advantages of taking part in clinical trials?

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

Immune cells can fuse together to form giant cells with many nuclei. Dr Jacques Behmoaras is investigating why this happens and how these cells are involved in osteoporosis. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 25 March 2014)

Bone-eating giants 

Professor Jane Davies gives her inaugural lecture

Bugs, drugs and genes: seeking new treatments for cystic fibrosis

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

In the wake of increased cases of whooping cough in the UK, US and Australia, Beate Kampmann explains just how effective vaccinations are. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)

Vital vaccinations 

Professor Sir Gregory Winter explains how therapeutic antibodies have revolutionised the pharmaceutical industry in recent years.

From antibodies to bicycles

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 Nadia Rosenthal discusses human tissue regeneration in her inaugural lecture.

Regeneration and the immune system

Front

Professor Kathryn Maitland talks about her experiences on the front lines of emergency child care in Kenya and how unexpected results like these may affect not just clinical care in Africa, but could impact the West too.

Tropical tales from the front line

How a career investigating the inflammatory responses of organisms could hold the key to treating life threatening conditions. Professor Margaret Dallman delivers the 2011 Athena lecture. recorded at Imperial College London

From autoimmunity to zebrafish - an immunologist's view of the world

Nick Grassly on a new polio vaccine that protects 30% more susceptible children in northern India.

Extract 1 of 3 from the Imperial College Podcast May 2007: Improved Polio Vaccine

Professor Sir Ravinder Maini and Professor Marc Feldmann discuss discovering anti-TNF treatment and the impact it has made

Discovering a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

NK cells (green) attack diseased human cells

An NK cell locates a diseased cell and kills it

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