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Dr Wijethilake, who recently completed her PhD, was awarded the PPIE and Second Runner-Up awards in the iCASE Translational Fund Competition at the MRC DTP Symposium. The MRC DTP supported her throughout her PhD, including awarding her supplementary funding for PPIE activities and to support her transition from PhD to postdoc.

Two neurosurgical studies led by CAI4CAI researching novel, light based, imaging systems that can be used to greatly improve the efficacy of future neurosurgical procedures ran a successful day of patient involvement.

Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 years King’s Doctoral College London Africa PhD Studentships (including tuition fees, annual stipend and consumables) starting preferably in October 2025 and no later than June 2026.

To be eligible, student must be an African national and be permanently resident in an African country.

Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have successfully integrated KUKA’s Fast Robot Interface (FRI) with ROS 2 and Python, significantly enhancing the capabilities of the surgical robot.

The 25th of September saw the latest meeting of “Science for Tomorrow’s Neurosurgery,” our now well established PPI group. As always, lots of exciting and valuable discussion with updates from Oscar on the (nearly complete!) NeuroHSI recruitment as well as Matt announcing the official opening of NeuroPPEYE phase 2!