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The application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

Sam Stranks in the lab

From solar power to patient care

21 Nov 2025

Professor Sam Stranks has founded two companies and an education charity to address pressing climate and health challenges and to support...

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Solar panels

Cambridge spinout secures funding to accelerate breakthrough in solar energy

06 Nov 2025

Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT), a deep-tech spinout from the University of Cambridge, has raised £1.6 million to commercialise a technology that...

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Professor Zoe Kourtzi

Cambridge spinout to develop AI-driven 'brain forecast' tech

28 Oct 2025

A Cambridge spinout is developing an AI-driven 'brain forecast' technology to help clinicians predict how brain disease will progress in patients.

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Four Cambridge innovations awarded UKRI proof of concept funding

09 Oct 2025

Four cutting-edge University of Cambridge research projects are to receive funding from UKRI to grow into market-leading products and services.

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Nigel Collier

Cambridge spinout helping to make AI more trustworthy

25 Sep 2025

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday tools and decisions, ensuring the safety and reliability of large language models (LLMs) is...

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Tuomas Knowles

The protein pioneer

23 Sep 2025

Meet one of the world's leading experts on protein science, who is putting his ground-breaking research into practice by founding five spinout...

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Digital data flows

Cambridge AI spinout acquired by global insurance software company

11 Sep 2025

Applied Systems , a global provider of insurance software solutions, has acquired Cytora , a University of Cambridge AI spinout that has become the...

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Woman's hand holding a knee

‘Artificial cartilage’ could improve arthritis treatment

09 Sep 2025

Researchers have developed a material that can sense tiny changes within the body, such as during an arthritis flare-up, and release drugs exactly...

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Two scientists in a Cambridge lab

Cambridge and AstraZeneca: a decade of partnership and impact

17 Jul 2025

Highlighting the last 10 years of partnership through scientific collaboration, nurturing talent and strengthening our ecosystem

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Team member adding post-its to a white board

Cambridge wins two Prosperity Partnership awards to support innovation in clean technologies

10 Jul 2025

The University of Cambridge has been awarded two Prosperity Partnerships by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The...

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Wayve autonomous car

Co-founder of billion-dollar AI for autonomous driving company and Cambridge alumnus wins Princess Royal Silver Medal

26 Jun 2025

Alex Kendall, CEO and Co-Founder of Wayve, a billion-dollar UK company that uses deep learning to solve the challenges of self-driving cars, has been...

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Jim Glasheen outside Cambridge Enterprise

Innovation and enterprise: lessons from the frontline

16 Jun 2025

The new head of Cambridge Enterprise reflects on innovation in Cambridge and what he's learnt from a career spent founding and building successful...

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