Four Cambridge innovations awarded UKRI proof of concept funding
09 October 2025Four cutting-edge University of Cambridge research projects are to receive funding from UKRI to grow into market-leading products and services.
Professor Ruth Cameron receives Suffrage Science award on the scheme’s tenth anniversary
08 March 2021Professor Ruth Cameron from Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is one of twelve winners of this year’s Suffrage Science awards. She and the other winners will be honoured at an online celebration today, the tenth anniversary of the scheme. This will be the fifth Suffrage Science awards for engineering and physical sciences.
Patching up a broken heart
16 June 2017It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when arteries to the heart are blocked – the heart’s muscle cells start to die. Sanjay Sinha wants to mend these hearts so that they work again.
Celebrating 10 years of European research excellence
13 March 2017So what has the ERC ever done for us? Quite a lot, say Cambridge academics, as they mark the 10th anniversary of Europe’s premier research-funding body
Body builders: collagen scaffolds
04 June 2014Miniature scaffolds made from collagen – the ‘glue’ that holds our bodies together – are being used to heal damaged joints, and could be used to develop new cancer therapies or help repair the heart after a heart attack.
