2000 News Releases

-Imperial statistician estimates size of French BSE epidemic
Dr Christl Donnelly's estimatations of the French BSE epidemic are published in Nature - Press Release - 14 December 2000

-NASA chooses Imperial team to study the evolution of galaxies
A team of Imperial astrophysicists has been selected to participate in a new NASA programme - Press Release - 8 December 2000

-Scientists create bone from stem cells
Scientists at Imperial have succeeded in creating bone cells using embryonic stem cell technology - Press Release - 6 December 2000

-Ensuring high standards with the IDEA League
The IDEA League has met for its first general assembly - Press Release - 5 December 2000

-New research aims to help rowers take the strain off their backs
Rowers of all abilities are set to benefit from new scientific research at Imperial College which will help improve their technique and may lead to fewer back injuries in the sport - Press Release - 1 December 2000

-Making the most of mopane worms - new African research
A new collaborative study of mopane worms, a southern African culinary delicacy, is to be conducted by researchers and community groups from southern Africa and from Imperial College - Press Release - 30 November 2000

-Press Invitation: The science of stem cells - December Symposium at Imperial College
Journalists are invited to attend the Symposium ‘Stem Cells and Development’ at the First Anniversary meeting of the Imperial College Tissue Engineering Centre on 6 December - Press Release - 28 November 2000

-Trees may be the key to infertile soil in Africa
Team at Imperial College at Wye embark on a project to find a solution to declining soil fertility in Africa - Press Release - 27 November 2000

-Imperial announces new initiative in internet technology
A new initiative in internet technology for remote medical imaging and visualisation - Press Release - 21 November 2000

-Imperial College wins Queen's Anniversary Prize
Imperial has won a prize for its contribution in research and training in surgery - Press Release - 17 November 2000

-Professor Les Borysiewicz appointed Principal of Imperial College School of Medicine
Successor to Professor Christopher Edwards to come from University of Wales College of Medicine - Press Release - 14 November 2000

-Supermarket fundraiser raises £32,217 to fund a research student
David Paterson presented a cheque for £32,217 to Professor Andrew Amis - Press Release - 14 November 2000

-Computer modelling offers new insight into the formation of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico
Gareth Collins, TH Huxley School, announces results of modelling at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting - Press Release - 14 November

-Wye welcomes new horticulturist from 'down under'
Plant architecture researcher joins the Agroecology research team at Imperial College at Wye - Press Release - 9 November 2000

-Steps to lighten the Isle of Wight's 'Ecological Footprint'
Although the Isle of Wight is at the forefront of waste recycling in the UK, the imprint it leaves on the environment is still much too big, according to an analysis of its Ecological Footprint - Press Release - 8 November 2000

-Scientists find infection history must play key role in vaccine development
Research published today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine - Press Release - 6 November 2000

-Local sixth-formers could hold key to the future of meningitis
Press Release - 6 November 2000

-Bicycle helmets do protect against head injuries
The number of serious head injuries among cyclists of all ages has fallen as a result of increasing helmet usage, report Imperial College researchers in the BMJ today - Press Release - 27 October 2000

-Professor from 'down-under' aims high at Wye
An agricultural specialist from Australia joins Imperial College at Wye and aims to ensure it becomes a world-leader - Press Release - 26 October 2000

-Maths that shows engineers how to tame nature
Fundamental mathematical research which exposes the limits of nature is announced by Imperial College researchers in Nature today - Press Release - 25 October 2000

-US entrepreneur Dr Gary Tanaka donates £27 million to Imperial College
Alumnus donates £27 million to the College - Press Release - 25 October 2000

-New distance learning MSc meets needs of Convention on Biological Diversity
Imperial launches an innovative new distance learning MSc programme in Biodiversity Conservation - Press Release - 23 October 2000

-Imperial space science expert appointed to top ESA post
Professor David Southwood has been elected new Director of Science of the European Space Agency - Press Release - 20 October

-2000 Fellows of Imperial College
Announcement of the newly elected Fellows of Imperial College - Press Release - 20 October

-UK petrol-buying behaviour probed by Imperial researchers
Research published today shows that petrol price increases have a substantial effect upon consumption, but falls in other costs mean the demand for fuel and road travel continues to grow - Press Release - 29 September 2000

-New development redirects research into multiple sclerosis
Professor Richard Reynolds will discuss a key development his group have made in understanding the cause of multiple sclerosis at the BA Festival of Science - Press Release - 12 September 2000

-Rheumatoid arthritis researchers receive Crafoord Prize from King of Sweden
Professors Ravinder Maini and Marc Feldmann, both of the newly-merged Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, receive the Crafoord Prize today - Press Release - 18 September 2000

-Asthma and the Sinister Infiltrator
Professor Tim Williams will tell the BA Festival of Science how asthma may be caused by a body defence system that has gone wrong - Press Release - 12 September 2000

-Gene Therapy: A lost cause?
Dr Dominic Wells will explain at the BA Festival of Science why so few gene therapy clinical trials have been successful when the technique offers so much therapeutic potential - Press Release - 12 September 2000

-Emergency! Trauma scene recreated at South Kensington Festival
Surgeons from Imperial College School of Medicine recreate an ER-style accident scene and challenge Imperial's doctors-to-be to demonstrate their life-saving skills - Press Release - 10 September 2000

-The age of cybersurgery draws closer
Professor Ara Darzi, head of the Academic Surgical Unit at St Mary's hospital, describes his vision of the future of surgery in a lecture at the Creating Sparks festival - Press Release - 9 September 2000

-Biological Time: a dance to the rhythm of life
Travellers with jet-lag, shift workers and cancer patients are all set to gain from pioneering work into the body clock at Imperial College - Press Release - 8 September 2000

-Tissue engineering: the future for creating spare body parts
Julia Polak, Director of Imperial's Tissue Engineering Centre will argue the vital importance of tissue engineering research - Press Release - 7 September 2000

-The ultimate civil engineering challenge
Professor John Burland describes the successful stabilisation works on the Leaning Tower of Pisa - Press Release - 7 September 2000

-Earthquake damage to road networks and other urban lifelines
Professor Elnashai's group have developed an innovative computer system to assess earthquake damage - Press Release - 7 September 2000

-Imperial College celebrates 10th anniversary of Rolls-Royce’s Vibration University Technology Centre
Imperial will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Vibration UTC on 7 September - Press Release - 7 September 2000

-Tri-partnership venture for drug discovery company
Imperial teams up with industry and the City to launch Argenta Discovery with £7.2m of funding from venture capitalists - Press Release - 4 September 2000

-A safe container for nuclear waste
Unwanted nuclear material may soon have a new safe storage option... - Press Release - 3 August 2000

-World class merger creates hothouse of agricultural and environmental research
Today, Wye College, Kent, merged with Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London - Press Release - 1 August 2000

-Leading arthritis research institute merges with top UK university
The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology merged today… Press Release - 1 August 2000

-Imperial College Company Maker wins DTI support for Biotech Incubation
A second round of funding to help service Imperial's biotech start-ups - Press Release - 26 July 2000

-New Biotech Company to target asthma and allergy disorders
Launch of Circassia Limited – a new company dedicated to the development of novel treatments for asthma and related allergic disorders - Press Release - 24 July 2000

-Public Lectures on Mathematical Physics
The 13th International Congress on Mathematical Physics includes a series of public lectures - Press Release - 13 July 2000

-International Congress of Mathematical Physics to be held at Imperial College
The prestigious triennial Congress will take place at Imperial from 17 to 22 July - Press Release - 10 July 2000

-Imperial College and BP Amoco form a new alliance
A new strategic alliance allows BP Amoco to call upon Imperial's environmental research expertise whenever required - Press Release - 4 July 2000

-A step closer to cannabinoids for pain relief
New pain relief treatments based upon the active components of cannabis are the promise of research findings by London scientists - Press Release - 3 July 2000

-Sir Richard Sykes appointed Rector of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Sir Richard Sykes, FRS, Executive Chairman of Glaxo Wellcome plc, appointed as Rector of Imperial College - Press Release - 3 July 2000

-Leadership and e-commerce for SME business managers
Imperial College Management School announces new programme 'Leadership and E-commerce' - Press Release - 27 June 2000

-Scientists create first transgenic malaria mosquito
Scientists at Imperial and EMBL announce the creation of the world's first transgenic malaria mosquito, as reported in Nature today - Press Release - 22 June 2000

-The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Source
Imperial research team selected to exhibit at the New Frontiers in Science Exhibition - Press Release - 9 June 2000

-Racial Discrimination in the English Professional Football League
Evidence that racial discrimination exists in the English professional football league is published this week - Press Release - 7 June 2000

-Primary care workers meet to set research agenda
The annual conference of the West London Research Network will take place on 8 June - Press Release - 26 May 2000

-Imperial College brings expert speakers to Canada
The Imperial College Forum 2000 will take place in Calgary and Lake Louise between 25 and 29 May - Press Release - 19 May 2000

-Rector of Imperial College assesses UK research climate
Excerpts from the Rector's Graduate Degree Ceremony 2000 speech - Press Release - 17 May 2000

-Honorary Graduates 2000
Announcement of this year's honorary graduates who will receive their degrees on 17 May - Press Release - 10 May 2000

-Ericsson Wins £18M Imperial College Managed Comms Contract
Imperial College and Ericsson announce a PFI contract for the provision of voice, data and web-based services for the College's 10,000 students, 6,000 staff and 65,000 alumni - Press Release - 5 May 2000

-Extinction - an end to elephants?
A new study published in Science today suggests that extinction may be much more damaging to biodiversity than previously thought - Press Release - 14 April 2000

-New technique unlocks the secrets of the heart's success
Imperial researchers gain fresh insight into the shape of the heart and how blood flows through it - Press Release - 13 April 2000

-Imperial College Chemist to Receive Bristol-Myers Squibb Grant
IC chemist first outside the US to be awarded an unrestricted research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb - Press Release - 6 April 2000

-Imperial College creates new Genetics and Genomics Research Institute
The new Institute will provide a focus for the the mass of genetic- and genomic-related research currently underway throughout the College - Press Release - 31 March 2000

-The Great London Transport Debate
London Mayoral candidates will come head to head with transport policy experts at a public debate on 4 April at Imperial College - Press Release - 21 March 2000

-Richard Stilgoe calls for improved speech synthesisers for disabled people
Composer and musical entertainer, Richard Stilgoe, to deliver 2000 Colin Cherry Lecture - Press Release - 16 February 2000

-Culture Secretary launches spectacular festival to be staged in South Kensington September 2000
Plans for creating SPARKS, a national arts and science festival, unveiled at a reception held at the House of Commons yesterday - Press Release - 15 February 2000

-The impact of technology on modern surgery
Professor Ara Darzi lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons of England open evening, and IC and the Royal College announce a joint surgical skills research programme Press Release - 25 January 2000

-Doctors awarded international prize for research leading to new treatment in rheumatoid arthritis
ICSM staff at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology win the prestigious Crafoord prize - Press Release - 20 January 2000

-New champion at Wye College
Announcement of the first Provost of Imperial College at Wye - Press Release - 18 January 2000