Neuroscience researchers at King's College London get Prize Fellowships

Two researchers of the School of Neuroscience at King's College London have received King's Prize Fellowships.

Study in UK: Dr Miha Modic from the UK Dementia Research Institute and Dr George Goodwin from Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre have received the King's Prize Fellowships.

This is a significant achievement for these researchers as they can now transition to become independent researchers. This fellowship is awarded to outstanding postdoctoral scientists in health and biomedical research. Through this, the recipient will get an opportunity to compete for intermediate-level postdoctoral fellowships and establish their research programmes at King's. The fellowships are co-funded by a generous endowment from Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement and The Anthony, a grant from King’s, and a university-level award from the Welcome Trust.

About Dr George Goodwin

He is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Wolfson SPaRC. Through the fellowship, he will work to find out whether silent nociceptors contribute critically to causing arthritis pain. The things Dr George Goodwin will use in this experiment includes chemogenetic, vivo imaging, his newly developed CHRNA3-CRE-ERT2 'silent nociceptor' mouse line, and behavioural techniques in relevant models of arthritis.

He thanked his late mentor, Professor Steve McMahon and his supervisor and current mentor, Dr Franziska Denk for their support.

About Dr Miha Modic

Dr Miha will work closely with Prof Eugene Makeyev, Dr Laura Andreae, and Dr Flora Lee to study how the essential dementia transcript MAPT is regulated in cellular homeostasis. The study is mainly about how it leads to tauopathies and subsequent neurodegeneration.

The fellowship will enable him to go for bigger grant applications such as the Wellcome Trust Career Development Award.

Crucial NHS staff still not appropriately valued, says study

A new report by researchers at King's Business School has found that NHS staff still remain 'invisible', undervalued, and without many opportunities. This is the condition despite the earlier report which highlighted the lack of opportunities for support staff.

"Clinical support workers are crucial to the NHS, often spending more time than doctors and nurses with patients and their families, so it is hugely disappointing to find they still feel invisible and undervalued. These staff are an underutilised resource, that if invested in, could significantly contribute to addressing the capacity and capability issues that the NHS faces. The opportunity was missed in 2013. It should not be missed again," said Lead author Professor Richard Griffin, Professor of Healthcare Management at King’s Business School.

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