Grants and awards
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South West to host Europe's largest Arm supercomputer
17 February 2020
The region's leading universities, the GW4 Alliance, together with the Met Office, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and partners, have been awarded £4.1 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe.
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£5 million boost to Bristol research projects from European Research Council
31 March 2020
Two projects led by scientists from the University of Bristol have received grants totalling more than £5 million from the European Research Council (ERC).
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Major funding to develop slow-releasing antimicrobial agent for dentistry and medicine
25 April 2016
A University of Bristol spin-out company working to advance the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection by developing a solution to improve the efficacy of chlorhexidine-based products has received major investment to progress the technology.
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Campaign to recognise unsung heroes in UK’s academic research given millions in funding
3 February 2025
A campaign that recognises the unsung work in the UK’s academic research has been awarded £3.5 million.
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Professor Jon Blundy awarded the Murchison Medal
18 March 2016
Jon Blundy, Professorial Research Fellow in Petrology, has been awarded the Geological Society’s prestigious Murchison Medal for 2016.
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Bristol citizens in driving seat for urban regeneration project
26 May 2016
People living in Bristol are set to benefit from a new UK research and innovation initiative that will put them in the driving seat to help improve the city’s health, well-being and prosperity as they face up to challenges of modern urban living.
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Undergraduates shine at national research event
11 March 2020
Today [11 March 2020], three undergraduate students from the University of Bristol will take part in a national event celebrating the best undergraduate research in the country.
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Prestigious IEEE award recognises pioneering work on Software Defined Networking
20 April 2016
Three members of Bristol’s High Performance Networks Group have won the 2016 Charles Kao Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society.
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Bristol announces the first of many new research projects to tackle COVID-19
9 April 2020
Diagnostic research to increase the UK's testing capacity, new vaccine targets, understanding more about people who are asymptomatic, and digital support for people with diabetes, are some of the new projects announced by the University of Bristol today [8 April] that will undertake vital COVID-19 research to tackle the global health crisis.
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£930,000 to develop new smoking cessation aids
13 May 2016
Chemists at the University of Bristol have been awarded £930,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop potential new aids to help smokers stop smoking.
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