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UCL Professor visits former student and Prime Minister on A Level Results day

Professor John Mullan surprised Andy Burnham during a visit to Downing Street, before the two reminisced about his university ...
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Comment: To tackle extreme heat, Andy Burnham needs to urgently take these three radical steps

Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) writes in The Conversation about how Andy Burnham could tackle extreme heat as the UK ...
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Being more active reduces cancer risk

Replacing 15 minutes of sleep or sedentary behaviour with 15 minutes of movement are each linked to a two per cent reduced risk of cancer, new UCL research has found.
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Professor Ibrahim Abubakar announced as new CEO of global pandemic body

Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, UCL’s Vice-Provost (Health), has been announced as the new CEO of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the leading global partnership for pandemic ...
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£8 million gift to create quantum institute at UCL

Based within UCL’s Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the new interdisciplinary Potter Institute will bring together leading scientists in quantum information theory, gravity and high ...
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27% of UK healthcare workers report long Covid symptoms

The latest REACH-OUT report, published by the NHS Race and Health Observatory in a collaboration between UCL, the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham, aimed to understand how ...