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Left to right: Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane, Erwin Reisner

Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

14 Mar 2024

Three Cambridge researchers – Professors Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane and Erwin Reisner – have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair...

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Robot arm and semiconductor

£11m semiconductor research centre could be key player in UK’s net zero mission

13 Feb 2024

The University of Cambridge is a partner in the new £11m Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) REWIRE, set to deliver pioneering semiconductor...

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Umaima Ahmad, CEO of 52North

Caring for cancer patients

31 Jan 2024

Meet Umaima Ahmad, co-founder and CEO of a Cambridge spinout that aims to keep chemotherapy patients safe from infection while sparing them...

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Scientists in the CARES lab

Taking Cambridge global

01 Dec 2023

In 2013, Cambridge opened its first-ever overseas research centre, the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES)...

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Strategy unveiled to boost innovation in Cambridge

16 Oct 2023

An ambitious new strategy to nurture and grow its innovation ecosystem has been unveiled at Cambridge summit.

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Dr Louisa Michael from Boeing talked about her work on multi-physics modelling of the impact of lightning strikes

Cambridge and Boeing celebrate a 20-year partnership

05 Oct 2023

Senior executives and employees from research and technology teams at Boeing spent three days in Cambridge to celebrate 20 years of successful...

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Inclusion, innovation... and cocktail curation

22 Aug 2023

Co-founder and CEO of Start Codon, Jason Mellad on helping healthcare start-ups thrive and why inclusion and diversity will change the world.

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Louisa Michael in the lab at Boeing

The future of flying

16 Feb 2023

Cambridge and Boeing have been working together for 20 years. Today they are combining their research strengths and industry know-how to speed...

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Taking care of mental health

09 Feb 2023

Psychiatrist, Professor of Neurotechnology and 'Enterprising Mind', Sabine Bahn has founded two companies both with the aim of helping people with...

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Tabitha Goldstaub, Innovate Cambridge’s Executive Director

New initiative to promote innovation in the Greater Cambridge area

08 Dec 2022

100 organisations, including AstraZeneca, Microsoft and Arm, have signed up to a new charter to boost the Cambridge innovation ecosystem and help it...

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deep fried locusts

The future of farming: from eating insects to urban agriculture 

07 Dec 2022

The Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School is supporting new ventures to improve sustainability in agriculture to meet the...

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Born in Cambridge: Meet 10 University spinouts

07 Dec 2022

10 University spinouts that are having an impact in the UK and around the world.

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