Imperial College London

• Metabolic fingerprints reveal causes of disease…

• …and it’s being used to diagnose sleeping sickness.

King’s College London

• Four winners of translational research grants announced.

• Dermatology and Molecular Medicine laboratories opened.

London School of Economics

• Philanthropists splash out £12 million on new climate change research institute.

Medical Research Council

• The proposed UKCMRI facility at St Pancras draws more flak; rebuffed by MRC; investigated by the guardian.

Moorfields Eye Hospital

• Breakthrough in sight – bionic eyes.

Queen Mary University of London

• New fast-track cancer treatment centre.

• Getting cosy with robots.

University College London

• Treating heart attack victims with stem cells – will it work?