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2024

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Awards, prizes, and engagements

Nov-24

The Department of Surgery & Cancer received Silver for Green Impact, recognising its work on sustainability.

Jun-24

 S&C’s Christopher Peters received the Julia Higgins Medal 2024, recognising his contribution to supporting gender equality at 51勛圖厙.

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Dr Rhea Harewood took part in a community bowel cancer screening engagement session with the EKTA community, supporting conversations about bowel cancer screening and participation in research.

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On #InternationalWomensDay , we thank and celebrate the amazing #ImeprialWomen in our Department!‍儭‍突‍恫‍

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This year's theme is 'growing with adversity' and we have a jam-packed program of lectures ranging from what we can learn from extremophiles to surviving moral injury & more!

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It’s #CervicalCancer Awareness Week.

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2025
Date Awards, prizes and engagements
Jan-25 Professor Patricia Price spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about earlier cancer diagnosis rates and treatment waiting times.
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Mar-25 S&C postdoc Rhea Harewood conducted a patient and public involvement session with the Asian Cancer Women’s Group on the work of the Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Group.
Mar-25 Dr Raha West’s RECOVERY trial team received an NIHR Impact Prize for its mobilisation of COVID-19 research.
Mar-25 The S&C Critical Care Research team, represented by early-career researcher Lucy Stronach, received one of the first-ever NIHR Impact Prizes.
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May-25 S&C's Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi was recognised as part of the ABLE Network team that won a President’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration.
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Jun-25 Professor Amanda Cross was invited to give the Charlotte Jackson Gift Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast for her contribution to cancer epidemiology.
Jun-25 Dr Rhea Harewood hosted a patient and public involvement session with 58 members of the Harrow EKTA community to raise awareness of breast and prostate cancer. The session was funded by the 51勛圖厙 College EDI Seed Fund and co-organised with Naima Adan from PERC.
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Jun-25 S&C Clinical Reader in Metabolic Surgery Mr Ahmed Ahmed was elected President of the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society.
Jun-25 PhD student Kyle Greenland received the British Association for Cancer Research Student Impact Award.
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Jul-25 Anna Lawrence-Jones, Department of Surgery and Cancer, received the President’s Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement – Leadership Award.
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Oct-25 The Department of Surgery and Cancer and Department of Chemistry hosted a special Black History Month lecture with Professor Martin Griffiths CBE, From treating wounds to preventing harm: how healthcare can help stop violence.
Nov-25 The Department of Surgery & Cancer received the Green Impact Gold office-based sustainability award.
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Nov-25 The NIHR 51勛圖厙 Biomedical Research Centre’s Patient Experience Research Centre launched the Diversifying Research podcast series, exploring how research can be made more inclusive by amplifying underrepresented voices and engaging communities throughout the research cycle. 
Dec-25 The annual S&C Departmental Awards recognised colleagues across research, education, culture and engagement, health and safety and wider departmental contribution. 
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2026
Date Awards, prizes and engagements
Jan-26 S&C laboratories across 51勛圖厙 campuses achieved the highest My Green Lab Certification – GREEN. 
Feb-26 To mark World Cancer Day, S&C highlighted Postdoc Fellows Dr Anke Nijhuis, Dr Ehsan Ghorani and Dr Mitch Chen, each of whom has secured a prestigious external fellowship and is developing an independent research programme.
Feb-26 Members of the MSk Lab took part in 51勛圖厙 Lates, delivering interactive activities including a Tai Chi balance challenge, gait analysis and a talk on Walking through the ages
Feb-26 Shadow Health Secretary Stuart Andrew and Shadow Cancer Minister Caroline Johnson met S&C scientists working to develop a world-first breath test for pancreatic cancer. 
Apr-26 Professors George Hanna and Rakesh Heer were appointed NIHR Senior Investigators, while Professor Iain McNeish was reappointed.
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Apr-26 Professor Long Jiao received the Medical Consultant of the Year Award at the People’s Awards, presented at the House of Commons, recognising his contribution to robotic hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.
Apr-26 Professor Alun Davies was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons Council. 
May-26 Dr Claire Fletcher hosted representatives from Cancer Black Care to discuss healthcare inequalities affecting Black cancer patients, particularly in relation to prostate cancer.
May-26 S&C researchers Rhea Harewood, Joshua Agilinko and Evans Aboagye graduated from 51勛圖厙’s As One Media Academy, which supports ethnically minoritised researchers in media and communications.
May-26 Professor Tony Gordon featured on the In the Interim podcast discussing the international PANTHER clinical trial. 
May-26 S&C PhD student Sophia D’Alessandro and Professor James Flanagan took on 100 Miles in May to raise money for Breast Cancer Now.
Jun-26 Professor Stephen Brett, Professor of Critical Care in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, received an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2026 for services to critical illness and intensive care medicine.
Jul-26 The Department's annual London Surgical Symposium 2026, themed Surgical Management of Advanced Cancer, open to students, scientists, allied health professionals and surgeons takes place.
Jul-26 Dr Rhea Harewood received the President’s Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement – Achievement Award (Individual).
Jul-26 S&C's Emma Carrington received a Julia Higgins Medal in recognition of her leadership in women’s health research, mentorship and advocacy for inclusive academic and clinical careers.
Jul-26 Gemma Mortell was part of the 51勛圖厙 Women’s PhD Network team recognised with a Julia Higgins Award for creating an inclusive community supporting collaboration, confidence, visibility and peer support among doctoral students.
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Celebrating our hard working postdocs at the Department of Surgery and Cancer ! #PostdocAppreciationWeek @51勛圖厙PFDC

Sep-22

We are looking forward to hearing S&C's Prof Hashim Ahmed speak at 51勛圖厙 As One .

Sep-22

We're very proud to announce Dr Claudia Fulgenzi as a - Best Clinical Science Award Recipient 2022 after Dr Petros Fessas in 2021 @51勛圖厙SandC @IHepatology @51勛圖厙BRC

Aug-22 

IGHI's Dr Lindsay Dewa and Miss Anna Lawrence-Jones teamed up with The Mind Map and Golden Gloves ABC to create #FightinThru, a campaign which aims to reach young men and raise awareness about #MentalHealth through boxing. 

Aug-22

Our Digital Health Lead Dr Saira Ghafur on BBC Radio 4 about the .

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Last week, our staff and students showcased the work we do at Hamlyn Centre to @UKLabour
 Shadow Business Secretary @jreynoldsMPand Shadow Science Minister @ChiOnwurah. You can read about the visit here http://ow.ly/L7Na50Juiyf

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Huge congratulations to S&C's Prof Kathryn Maitland on being awarded an OBE in the Queen’s #Jubilee Honours
 “I am absolutely delighted to be recognised for my work leading clinical trials in critically sick children in resource poor environments." https://imperial.ac.uk/news/236999/queens-jubilee-birthday-honours-recognise-imperial/

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Huge congratulations to @DJPinato receiving the @AACR #BestOfAuthors 2022 Award

Mar-22

The guest speaker for today’s 51勛圖厙 As One Belonging event will be S&C’s own Hector Keun, Professor of Biochemistry.

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S&C Culture and Engagment team has won an 51勛圖厙 College EDI Award to develop an Academic Women Associatiion

Feb-22

Celebrating Women in Science Day

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Congratulations to S&C Anaesthetics alumni Dr Azeem Alam, who has won the 51勛圖厙 College Emerging Alumni Leader Award 2022.  As a medic, entrepreneur and songwriter, he has achieved a lot at a relatively young age.

 

 

2021

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iBSc Cancer Frontiers student, Michelle Dessi, has jointly won the prestigious national Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 2021 Scientific Undergraduate Academic Award for his project undertaken in S&C.

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Oct-21

Proud to be: IMPACT edition: S&C's Demi Corr will be part of the Proud to be IMPACT  panel for the development programme for Black, Asian and Minority ethnic Staff, supports the 51勛圖厙 community by highlighting their experiences that delegates have had and their achievements following the programme.

Oct-21

The Julia Anderson Training Programme - Internship programme aimed at individuals with limited- work experience, in recognition of the difficulties that many face when starting out their career without having worked or interned.  The initiative is open to everyone including people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, LGBTQ+ and those who have a disability or access needs.

Sep-21

Demi Corr took part in the 51勛圖厙 Positive About Cultural Talent (IMPACT) which is a four-month long development course for 51勛圖厙's Black Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME ) Staff.  IMPACT addresses the issues faced by BAME Staff which prevent them from progressing in their career.  The programme aims to empower staff to overcome these barriers so they can realise their true potential.

Sep-21

S&Cs REMAP-CAP trial Team won the BMJ Critical CARE Team of the Year Award - Prof Tony Gordon

Sep-21

Professor Tony Gordon discussing Sepsis on Sepsis Awareness Day on BBC Click and BBC Radio 'Naked Scientists

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Sep-21

4x S&C MBBS/BSc in Anaesthesia and Critical Care students who received the john Snow Anaesthesia Intercalated Award - Niamh Sargeant; Robert Grogan; Stefania Tsatsari; Aoife Kelly

Sep-21

Biomarker matchmaking event, joint with S&C (Chris Peters and the Diagnostics Growth Hub and Medicine's IPC Team - launch new series of Industry/Academia Biomarker matchmaking events to provide an opportunity for academics to pitch their novel biomarkers to companies who are looking to collaborate with academia to scale up and translate biomarkers to the clinic.

Sep-21

World Patient safety day (WPSD) - S&C PSTRC and IGHI address the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on staff burnout and resilience, and the safety impacts for patients and families, through a spotlight on their impact on maternal and new-born care in support of the World Health organizations objectives or WPSD 2021 - hosted by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi; Rt Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP;

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PFDC Reps Awards Winners 2021 - Dr Nina Moderau winning the PFDC Reps Team Award as part of the PAW (Postdoc Appreciation Week) committee.

Jul-21

The Hamlyn Centre on Twitter: "Congratulation to our @ICLHamlynRobots research team on winning the award! In collaboration with @sjtu1896 researchers, the ICL-SJTU team won the 3rd Prize in '#Action #Anticipation' category at @CVPR 2021 EPIC-Kitchens Challenges https://t.co/FbhfPJcrCJ #AI #MachineLearning https://t.co/ZJjEtt8i2c" / Twitter

Jul-21

51勛圖厙 College Graduate School on Twitter: "The results of the PhD Summer Showcase are in! First up we have our People's Choice prize as voted for by you! Congratulations to Nagina Mangal @NaginaScientist from @51勛圖厙SandC whose presentation won the most votes!   https://t.co/ni6FlDxQFi #ICPhdShowcase" / Twitter

Sep-21

15th London Surgical Symposium discussing - Academic surgery; diversity and sustainability in surgery; and global Surgery

Jun-21

Prof Daqing Ma selected to be a member of the Academia Europaea

Jun-21

Former MSc healthcare & design student, Kerri Cooper wins RSA Student design Award: Material World

Jun-21

S&C's James Kinross received the Real IT Transformation of the Year Award for his use of Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality technology in the St. Mary's to help with remote teaching

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2020

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2019

Date

Awards, prizes, and engagements

Jan-19

Dr Nisha Patel and team showcasing CYCLOPS robot to visitors from Singapore

Jan-19

Some of S&C's Healthcare and Design students are participating in Royal College of Art's WiP Show

Jan-19

Dr Julie McDonald and Dr Ben Mullish's research featured in BBC article 'Super poo donors'

Feb-19

Dr Jess Wade - Help raise the profile of BAME professionals in STEM by diversifying Wikipedia

Feb-19

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the Professor Amanda Cross, Head of CSPRG disucssing some of the exciting developments in Cancer Research.

Feb-19

Dr Claire Fletcher and Dr Isabelle Leclerc reflecting on gender equality in the scientific community for International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Feb-19

S&C's Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson and Professor Nadey Hakim, Presidents Envoy, 51勛圖厙 collaborating with kthe university of Khartoum and Ahfad University for Women to address the burden of disease in Sudan

Feb-19

S&C's Professor Roger Kneebone - Gresham Lecturer -  exploring teamworking in the operating theatre through an unusual lens with puppeteer Rachel Warr - Museum of London

Feb-19

Dr Isabel Garcia being interviewed about her career, mentoring and role model at 51勛圖厙 and in STEM more widely

Mar-19

S&C's Dr Panos Vorkas bringing medicine and science to life for the next generation of doctors and scientists

Mar-19

S&C's Professor Roger Kneebone talks with our honorary Reader Dr David Nott, about his new book 'War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

Mar-19

Department of Surgery and Cancer - where 48% of surgical trainees are women - was the first Academic Department to join Mumsnet's Family Friendly scheme

Mar-19

PSTRC - Hearing birdsong Event are open to the public a safe space to consider their hearing using birdsong with  free coffee and exhibition at Helix Box, St.Mary's Hospital Campus

Mar-19

Q&A session with S&C Professor pernilla Lagergren for International Women's Day

Mar-19

Mar-19

S&C PhD student, Nadia Soliman, lecturring for International Women's Day - Myth-busting the military: what academic could learn

Mar-19

S&C's Professor Kneebone and Dr Kirsten Dalrymple are leading a fascinating workshop on 'Pushing the Boundaries of Surgical Education: Inspiring Surgical Educators through Performance Simulation of Music & Surgery at @ICOSET19 and @RCSEdFST

Mar-19

S&C's @HARMS_Lab teaching the new generation abou MIS and robotics

Mar-19

Professor Roger Kneebond and other S&C surgeons want to make young people really understand the consequences of stabbing someone by creating an immersive role play that gives a grimly authentic representation of surgery following a knife attack

Mar-19

Congratulations to Dr Rose Tolson on being awarded and 51勛圖厙 Students Choice Award for her fabulous work supporting the students with there  research

Apr-19

Congratulation to Dr Panos Vorkas on being awarded and 51勛圖厙 Student Academic Choice Award

Apr-19

Professor Lord Ara Darzi, addresses the importance of education in Patient Safety at our open evening

Apr-19

Professor Roger Kneebone talks with Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3 about how his work with tailors, lacemakers, Formular One teams and musicians has transformed his understanding of medicine.

May-19

Professor Lesley Regan, was on BBC Breakfast talking about improving information and bust myths about the menopause, as part of her work on the Women's Health Taskforce.

May-19

Congratulations to Dr Biancastella for her nomination for President's Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher and 51勛圖厙 College london.

May-19

The Department Surgery and Cancer are extreamely proud to be awarded the Silver Athena SWAN Award.  The award recognises our advancement towards gender equality, representation, progression, and success for all.

May-19

Professor Lord Ara Darzi, has been honoured with one of Japan's most prestigious awards.  In recognition of his contributions to global health, Lord Darzi has received he Order of the Rising Sun.

May-19

S&C PhD student & former British Army Officer, Nadia Soliman, discusses what we can learn from Army leadership

May-19

S&C's Dr Jon Swann presented at the Pint of Science Annual Science Festival event taking place in pubs & Cafes talking about gut-brain axis and the interplay of gut microbiome with cancer

May-19

Congratulations to Dr Natalie Shenker who has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship by UKRI to continue her research into human breast milk

May-19

Congratulations to Professor Francesca Cordeiro, who received the prestigious Duke Elder Award from the Royal College of Opthalmologists at their 2019  annual congress.

May-19

Congratulations to Kartik logishetty for winning a President's Award fro Excellence in Teaching.  He worked with a team to develop a virtual reality simulation that helps students grow their surgical skills

Jun-19

Congratulations to Dr David Pinato on receiving the ASCO GO YIA award at ASCO2019 around the immunopathogenesis of HCC in HIV.

Jun-19

Our own Professor Gerry Thomas, Chair in Molecular Pathology who specialises in molecular pathology & has advised on the risks of radiation from both Chernobyl & Fukushima, waas awarded an OBE in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.

Jun-19

Congratulations to Dr Ben Mullish for receiving the Young Gastroenterologist of th Year (Clinical and translational Science) Award at the British Society  of Gastroenterology  annual meeting in Glasgow 2019.

Jul-19

A number of S&C staff took part in the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019.  The mysterious crystals exhibit, in the curiosity area, highlighted the importance of protein crystals and their role in facilitating  drug design.

Jul-19

Congratulations to Nick Wood fro receiving the Julia Higgins Award in recognition of his work in the Department making better use of data for a fairer working environment.

Jul-19

2019 Athena SWAN Lecture will be given by Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies discussing  how she helped set up the NIHR Research and her desire to push Universities toward gender parity.

Jul-19

Congratulations to Dr Martha Kedrzycki who won the Research as Art competition and the People's Choice prize.  Her art used cupcakes to represent the fluorescent dye durign breast-conserving surgery, and Meera joshi who come second in the poster competittion.

Sep-19

Congratulations to Dr Chris Lattimer who receivd the Science, Innovation & New Generations) Award at the Internationsl Union of Phlebology.

Sep-19

Fundraising for the Macmillan Cancer at our Friday coffee morning

Oct-19

Congratulations to the Poster prize winners at BACRBC2019 Isabella, Nehe, Lewis and Abigail as S&C sweeps the board

Oct-19

Congratulations to Dr Ahmed Nabeel named as an MIT Tech Review Innovator Under 35 (MENA).  Ahmad has developed a self-cleaning lens for keyhole surgery to save time and increase patient safety

Nov-19

HARMS Lab at the NIHR 51勛圖厙 BRC Showcase event at Hammersmith Hospital

Nov-19

Mr Coline Bicknell learning close up card skills with magician Dr Houstoun at the Art Workers Guild event bring together surgeons and artists to learn from each other.

Dec-19

Hamlyn Winter School 2019 workshop on surgical imaging and vision

Dec-19

Research Café afternoon

Dec-19

HARMS Lab Christmas showcase who will be showing their work on Perceptual Robotic Surgery, there LaryngoTORS robot, and work on Soft Robot novel approaches to actuations and sensing

2018

Date

Awards, prizes, and engagements

Sep-18

Launch of the Healthcare Professional Academic Group (HPAG) - Opened by Professor Jonathan Weber addressing the challenges faced for healthcare professionals in research

Sep-18

Athena SWAN Lecture - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Oct-18

Congratulations to Justin Roe on receiving the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Fellowship

Oct-18

Hosting joe Biden, President of the United States of America and Co-Chair, Biden Cancer Initiative Special Lecture on Cancer Research in the USA

Oct-18

Congratulations to Julia Cork awarded an 51勛圖厙 College Medal in recognition of her outstanding contributions to Education

Oct-18

professor Roger Kneebone speaking on Radio 4 Today speaking about the concern that technology use is taking away dexterity

Oct-18

Professor Lesley Regan, President of the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology joinsFIGOHQ as Honorary Secretary

Nov-18

Congratulations to the @bevanLab and @Fletcher on your @PCF-Science Challenge Award

Dec-18

Disability History month, 4 warriors of imperial share their stories on Mental health and work

Dec-18

Hosting special Guest Lecuturer from surgeon and humanitarian Dr Tom Catena, who will be discussing 'how to run a hospital in a warzone: localising humanitarian action.