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Spotlighting Air Quality Researchers on Clean Air Day
Continue readingAir pollution is linked to 43,000 deaths each year in the UK. The World Health Organization and the UK Government recognise that air pollution is the largest environmental threat to our health. To mark Clean Air Day, we’re spotlighting Dr Ian (Gang) Chen and Dr Kayla Schulte from Imperial’s Environmental Research Group who are leading the […]
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Professor Paul Elliott elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Continue readingImperial experts in medicine, maths and engineering have been announced as new Fellows of the Royal Society. We are thrilled to announce that Professor Paul Elliott is one of the elected Fellows for this prestigious recognition. The seven Imperial researchers elected as Fellows this year are drawn from fields including public health, infectious disease, civil […]
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Tribute to Daniel Greenbaum
Continue readingWe pay tribute to Daniel Greenbaum who recently passed away after a short illness. Daniel Greenbaum was a visionary leader and had over three decades of governmental and non-governmental experience in environmental health. He was President of the U.S. Health Effects Institute since 1994. Dan was a member of the MRC Centre for Environment and […]
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Longer mobile phone use does not increase the risk of brain tumours
Continue readingUsing a mobile phone for extended periods is not linked with an increased risk of brain cancer, a study shows. These are the findings from the COSMOS study, a large international project led by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Imperial College London. Starting in 2007, researchers studied more than 250,000 mobile phone […]