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Westminster’s Professor Louise Thomas contributes to UK Biobank’s record-breaking human imaging project

15 July 2025

Westminster supports health and wellbeing of astronauts with launch of groundbreaking report

26 November 2024

New light detector at Westminster gives scientists capacity to solve 100-year-old mysteries on how cells communicate

25 January 2024
Dr Louise Thomas becoming a fellow at the Royal College of Physicians

University of Westminster’s Professor Louise Thomas made Fellow of Royal College of Physicians

18 May 2023
Deep MRI scan of human body with colourful highlights that phenotyping enhances our ability to understand health and disease development

Largest ever dataset of internal organ MRI analysed by Westminster researchers made publicly available by UK Biobank

23 February 2023
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Spleen iron accumulation linked to genes involved in hereditary red blood cell condition, new research finds

20 May 2022
MRI Scans from ageing study

Ageing happens faster than you think, new research reveals

25 March 2022
MRI scan from UK biobank study

Body composition is associated with COVID-19 severity, study finds

11 March 2022
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Lucky genes could help protect people with obesity from some diseases, study finds

1 February 2022
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High levels of fat in liver raises risk of diabetes by a quarter, study finds

13 January 2022
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The University of Westminster secures £120,000 funding from The Guy Foundation to support PhD student's work on quantum biology

21 October 2021
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Westminster academics and researchers win Best Paper Award at 34th IEEE International Symposium of Computer-Based Medical Systems

2 July 2021
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Study of the largest ever collection of abdominal MRI scans identifies substantial genetic insight into organ volumes, tissue fat and iron content

15 June 2021
MRI images from two volunteers of the upper body highlighting the iliopsoas muscles

Dr Nicolas Basty and Research Centre for Optimal Health predict muscle measurements to investigate effects of health with new machine learning techniques

20 November 2020
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Dr Louise Thomas works on the first COVID-19 recovery study COVERSCAN

9 June 2020
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Snacking on almonds improves heart health, study finds

3 June 2020
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Gene identified as potential target for drugs to prevent liver disease, study finds

22 April 2020
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Pukka Herbs sponsors PhD Studentship for Westminster doctoral student

30 March 2020