Humans who search
12 March 2021Stefanie Reichelt had long felt there was a disconnect between the public’s perception of scientists and reality. Armed with only a camera and a chair,...
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...
Lynn Gladden named as Queen Elizabeth Prize judging panel chair
02 February 2021Professor Dame Lynn Gladden, from Cambridge’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, has been appointed as the new chair of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for...
Tackling COVID-19: Dr Ben Underwood
04 January 2021Ben Underwood’s expertise in delivering clinical trials became highly prized last year, as he worked on a vaccine trial the whole world was watching.
Reflections on a year of fighting COVID-19
11 December 20202020 will be forever remembered for COVID-19. As the year draws to a close, Dr Estée Török looks back at how colleagues across the NHS...
Professor Chris Abell FRS, FMedSci (1957 – 2020)
27 October 2020The University is saddened to announce that Professor Chris Abell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Todd-Hamied Fellow of Christ’s College, has died...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
22 October 2020Her plans to study the effects of social isolation on adolescents have become particularly pertinent this year. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a cognitive neuroscientist who has...
Cambridge researcher named to Time 100 list of world's most influential people
23 September 2020Professor Ravi Gupta has been named today as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year, in recognition of his work...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Daniela De Angelis
20 August 2020Since January this year, Daniela De Angelis and her team have been informing the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their real-time model of...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Gordon Dougan
16 July 2020“In many parts of the world people still live with the daily threat of diseases like cholera, typhoid, and malaria. In reality COVID is just...
