There have been many recent significant Institute achievements in the past year, some attracting major media attention. This page includes some of the highlights.
Staffing news
- Early Career Promotions announced for 2020
- Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Fellow promotions announced for 2019-20
- Professor Olga Ciccarelli is appointed as the Head of the Department of Neuroinflammation
- Professor Jonathan Schott named ARUK’s first Chief Medical Officer
- IoN achieves Silver Athena SWAN award
Staffing awards and prizes
- Two Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Professors elected new Fellows of the Royal Society
- Professors Mary Reilly and Bart De StrooperÌýelected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Michael Hanna and Professor Rob Brownstone join prestigious academy fellowship
- Professor Michael Hanna elected to Council of Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Neil Burgess made a 2020 William James Fellow by the Association for Psychological ScienceÌý
- Two PhD students awarded Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Jon Driver Prize for outstanding young neuroscientists
- Professor Ray Dolan wins Royal Society award
- BPS honours researcher StephenÌýFleming for research into how the brain becomes self-aware
- Professor Giampietro Schiavo elected member of the Venetian Institute of Science Literature and Art
- : Distance Learning in Clinical Neurology
- Dr Marc Aurel Busche named as Future Leaders Fellow
- Co-Heads of Department Professors Sarah Tabrizi and Nick FoxÌýawarded Alexander Morison medal in successive years
- Professor Sarah Tabrizi receives Yahr award at World Congress of Neurology 2019
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê supported startup Kalgera awarded £100k by Nesta and joins the Open Up 2020 Challenge
- Dr Rimona Weil awarded Vera Down grant to assist research into neurological disorders
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Queen Square Institute of Neurology chooses Eoin Mulroy for Class of 2022 Edmond J. Safra Fellow
- Dr Mina Kim receives MS Society’s Innovative Award to translate research into early diagnosis of MS
- Dr Sonia Gandhi awarded new fellowshipÌýÌý
- Dr Adam Liston awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Research team wins award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's DiseaseÌýÌý
- Five Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê academics awarded ERC Starting Grants
Three UK DRI researchers awarded prestigious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award for collaborationÌý
David Blundred, ION Education Manager, winsÌýPersonal Excellence AwardÌýatÌýthis summer’sÌýÌý
COVID research
DRI, centres and funding news
- The Garfield Weston Foundation donate £5 million to world-leading neuroscience centre at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê
- New world-leading facility for Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neuroscience gains planning approval forÌý£281.6m state-of-the-art facility, which will be home to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neuroscience.
- Launch of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê QS Motor Neuron Disease Centre
- Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê research into genetic therapies for dementia boosted by donation from The Sigrid Rausing Trust
- State of the Art 7 Telsa MRI scanner installed at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
- Artist for new IoN-DRI facility on Grays Inn Road appointedÌý
Parkinson’s disease research at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Queen Square Institute of Neurology gets £19m boost
Queen Square events
- Inaugural lectures February 2020:ÌýProfessors James Kilner and Ludvic Zrinzo
- 20th annual Queen Square Symposium 2019
- IoNÌýAnnual Address 2019
- Mary Sweeney Memorial LectureÌý
- Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases 10th Anniversary Symposium