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Marmot — follow him on Twitter at @michaelmarmot — is President of the World Medical Association, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and has been a leading researcher on health inequality issues for more than four decades.

This selection of articles on the social determinants of health was released to mark the 57th Boyer Lecture series by Marmot, the President of the World Medical Association, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and a leading researcher on health inequality issues for more than four decades.

Leading graduate recruiters such as Cancer Research, CEBR, KPMG and Betfair enjoyed insightful presentations from Karen Barnard, Head of UCL Careers, and Tim Daplyn, CEO of Red Brick Research.

This is testament to the high quality of a UCL graduate in the eyes of global employers and makes it a desirable alma mater for many students.

Research suggests the average starting salary of UCL graduates is a hefty # 30,600.

«The uniqueness of our operating system is that Overledger is not another blockchain,» Quant Chief Strategist and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology at University College London, Paolo Tasca, told Bitcoin Magazine.

In a different more academic vein, we had occasion to look at restitutionary remedies on Friday and my colleagues were delighted with the depth of UCL's restitution site at http://www.ucc.ie/law/restitution/restitution.htm What other subject specific hoards do we use?

Currently, Sir Anthony is the inaugural judicial fellow of the UCL Judicial Institute and an honorary professor in the law faculty at the university.

Kimberly Kralowec, author of The UCL Practitioner, has announced the The Kralowec Law Group.

The new study, funded by NASA and led by Dr. Richard Pearson of UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research and formerly of the American Museum of Natural History, and by Dr. Resit Akçakaya of Stony Brook University in New York, identified factors that predispose species to high extinction risk due to climate change.

`'» There's a 50 % chance that humans will be extinct by the end of the century because of climate change,» said Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health, at last week's conference on environmental sustainability.»

For those who are keen to investigate the world of contemporary art collecting more, the Zabludowicz Collection are hosting an evening event as part of the UCL Art Museum symposium (22 - 23rd May 2015) on Friday 22nd May, 6 - 9 pm.

Dylan William, of the UCL Institute of Education, urged caution on the results for Wales - saying changes took a long time to filter through and it could be another decade before rankings would reflect what was happening in today's classrooms.

In support of his view, Professor Alice Sullivan of the UCL Institute of Education said: «There is no robust evidence that any particular school structure or type --- such as academies, free schools, faith schools — is beneficial for improving the performance of poor pupils.»

Prof John Jerrim, of the UCL Institute of Education in London, says that Canada's high league table ranking reflects the narrow socio - economic gap in school results.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

Global Gaps by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education (IoE) and Education Datalab analyses the 2015 test scores from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) PISA tests to assess how well the UK's schools are doing for the top 10 % of pupils.

Extra Time, by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, looks at how private tuition and out - of - school instruction varies from country to country.

Katharine Carruthers, Director of the UCL Institute Of Education (IOE) Confucius Institute, who deliver the training, said: «The progress that learners have made after their first year participating in the Mandarin Excellence Programme is exceptional.

Birendra Singh, of the UCL Institute of Education, has spent the past seven years conducting detailed qualitative research into how science is being taught.

The study's lead author John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education said: «Maths mastery shouldn't be seen as a silver bullet; there is no escaping that the effect of the programme was relatively small, though welcome.

The research, which was carried out by academics including Becky Francis, director of the UCL Institute of Education and Louise Archer, professor of sociology of education at King's College London, found 120 secondary schools which taught lessons in ability sets.

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, director of the UCL Huntington's Disease Centre at the UCL Institute of Neurology, has received the 2017 International Leslie Gehry Brenner prize for Innovation in Science.

The award is a testament to the tireless efforts of the UCL HD Centre team and our collaborators as we seek to lead world - class research from bench to bedside.

«If you are having a hard time navigating the mass of streets in a city, you are likely putting high demands on your hippocampus and prefrontal cortex,» said lead author Dr. Hugo Spiers of UCL Experimental Psychology, in a press release.

While the cause of UCL injury is not fully known, orthopedic specialists have long theorized it's due to overuse and stress on the elbow, pitching velocity and joint motion.

According to a literature review in the May 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS), overuse is the main cause of UCL injury.

Lead author and prion researcher Simon Mead of UCL argues that his paper's conclusions were based on several different lines of evidence that trump criticisms of ascertainment bias.

UCL Business, the commercialisation company of UCL, holds the patents for the technology.

Professor Thilo Rehren, of the UCL Institute of Archaeology, explains the significance of these results: «The invention of metallurgy is foundational for all modern cultures, and clearly happened repeatedly in different places across the globe.

The study was led by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Southampton, co-founder of UCL CASE Medicine, who now leads the Critical Care Research Area within the Southampton National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit.

«Despite all our efforts to educate youth athletes, parents and coaches, the trend of UCL injuries continues to be on the rise,» says lead author Jeremy Bruce, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and a clinical instructor at The University of Tennessee's College of Medicine Chattanooga.

Dr Daniel Martin, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science and Director of UCL CASE Medicine, adds: «These exciting results give us a unique insight into the possible mechanism of insulin resistance in diabetes and provide some clues as to where we should be thinking about focusing further research on novel treatments for this disease.

In an accompanying editorial, David Goldblatt, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., of the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, and Elizabeth Miller, F.R.C.Path., of Public Health England, London, write that the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts recently decided to revisit the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines as part of its continued appraisal of important issues that could be relevant to inform global immunization policy.

«Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed over the past few decades, as they still target dopamine receptors,» says study co-author Dr Andrew McQuillin, head of the UCL Molecular Psychiatry team that first discovered GRM3.

Professor Charles Fernyhough, Director of Hearing the Voice at Durham University, said: «This study brings the expertise of UCL's Speech Communication lab together with Durham's Hearing the Voice project to explore what is a frequently troubling and widely misunderstood experience.»

«The number of rape victims among women with severe mental illness is staggering,» says lead author Dr Hind Khalifeh of UCL's Division of Psychiatry.

«Antimicrobial resistance is an under - resourced area across all investments for infectious disease research, and pneumonia is no exception,» says lead author Michael Head of UCL and Southampton.

«We all know that eating fruit and vegetables is healthy, but the size of the effect is staggering,» says Dr Oyinlola Oyebode of UCL's Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, lead author of the study.

Poor oral health affecting athletes» general health and performance shows «no signs of improvement» and must be remedied, say a group of UCL - led health experts and sporting bodies.

The statement came out of the April 2014 Oral Health and Performance in Sport collaboration led by Professor Ian Needleman of the UCL Eastman Dental Institute and Dr Mike Loosemore of the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health (ISEH).

«What amazes me most is simply how well our technique works,» said Dr Garrett Hellenthal of the UCL Genetics Institute, lead author of the study.

«What amazes me most is simply how well our technique works,» said Garrett Hellenthal of the UCL Genetics Institute, lead author of the study.

We all share our experience, work together on certain projects and events, and collectively build the brand of UCL within industry.

«We think the mutant huntingtin is being released into the CSF from the very brain cells it is killing,» said Dr Edward Wild of UCL Institute of Neurology.

«At present, clinicians can remove clots blocking blood flow to the brain if stroke patients reach hospital early enough,» explains Professor David Attwell of UCL's Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, who led the study.

«Location of UCL tears in MLB pitchers can help determine if surgery is necessary.»

A proximal tear of the UCL was identified in 81 % of the patients that were successfully treated non-operatively.

Lead researcher, Professor Bill Richardson, Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, said: «From earlier studies of human white matter using advanced MRI technology, we thought OLs and myelin might be involved in some way in skill learning, so we decided to attack this idea experimentally.

By contrast, a distal tear of the UCL was detected in the patients that failed non-operative treatment and required surgical intervention.