In the last few months I've seen new hospitals like University College in London, the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital planned in Birmingham or Whiston Hospital in Knowsley, where I laid the foundation stone.
But as the recent controversy at University College in London showed earlier this academic year, there are considerable tensions and debates among Muslims about the degree to which science challenges fundamental tenets of Islam.
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Stephen Spiro, professor of respiratory medicine at University College Hospital in London, said it was difficult to know how teachers and pupils might be affected by the asbestos.
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Professor Michael Adler, Head of Reproductive Health at University College Hospital in London, said the study reinforced the importance of taking a good sexual history from people visiting STD clinics.
The team beat University College London in the final 190-140 to claim its fourth title in eight years.
Imperial College London fell from fifth to sixth place, while University College London, the last in the UK to make the top 10, rose from ninth to seventh place.
Dr Douglas Guilfoyle, a senior lecturer in law at University College London, said the Royal Navy would be looking for one of the states in the region to take on the prosecution of the alleged pirates.
Prof Philip Beales from University College London was involved in the study.
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts and Kings College in London found the mutation by doing detailed sequencing of the genes in several families with an inherited form of ALS. The findings are published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science and were partially funded by the ALS Association.
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Exeter University has now joined Imperial College, London, and the University of Cambridge in stating its intention to charge maximum fees from September 2012.
University College London's part in the project has been to design and build an optical corrector for the camera - an array of five massive lenses that sit at the primary focus of the camera.
"There was this whole idea that Prozac made you better - well, I wasn't sure, " says Joanna Moncrieff, now a senior clinical lecturer in neuroscience at University College London and author of forthcoming book The Bitterest Pills.
In 2007, Demis Hassabis, a research fellow at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, and his colleagues published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing in five amnesiac patients an impoverished ability to imagine and describe future events.
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Prof Sophie Scott, an expert in speech perception at University College London, said the findings supported and added to current knowledge.
"But this doesn't appear to be the case with winter deaths, " says Dr Gavin Donaldson, a specialist in respiratory medicine at University College London.
Another private institution which is expected to be given the university title soon is Regent's College in London, which does not take a profit, but instead ploughs funds back in to the institution.
In common only with Boston, London has two universities (Imperial College and University College) in the world's leading 20, so its universities are a draw too.
Dr John Twigg, a researcher at the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre of University College, London, says most governments invest in post-disaster response and very little in making people secure.
Professor Lorraine Sherr, an expert in the psychology of parenting at University College London, told the BBC News website the findings were not surprising.
This year, most of the exhibit is at University College London (with additional pieces on display in Torbay, England), in the heart of the city.
University College London academics interviewed paediatricians at 177 hospitals in England and Wales and found a lack of knowledge about the warning signs of children being underweight.
This was written with Kyla Mandel, who is a recent McGill University grad working on a masters in journalism the London College of Communication.
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Dr Katharine Giles was cycling to work at University College London (UCL) when she was involved in a collision with a tipper truck in Victoria on Monday.
Searchspace was launched in 1993 by four doctoral students at the University College London's Intelligent Systems Laboratory.
Dr Magiorkinis, who did the work in collaboration with the University of Athens and Imperial College London, said the model had helped build a "solid argument" to improve early diagnosis and antiviral treatment in drug users.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".
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Apparently in a study done by the Deafness Research UK in conjunction with Dr. Brad Backus of University College London, 14 out of 15 toys tested produced noise levels above the recommended safety limit when held close to the ear. 8 of the 15 were just fine during normal use, but the three worst offenders -- a machine gun, a tommy gun and a cap gun -- are on the "avoid" list.
In an accompanying commentary, Dr Gordon Johnson of University College London, UK, says that "ophthalmic surgeons should not be pressured to go for quantity at the expense of quality".
Experiments suggest this is going on within single molecules in birds' eyes, and John Morton of University College London explained that the way birds sense it could be stranger still.
If the museum does decide to repatriate the object, it will be as a sign of good will, according to Tim Schadla-Hall, a Reader in Public Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
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