Grants and awards
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£10 million funding boost for postgraduate biomedical sciences research
14 October 2019
The Wellcome Trust has awarded the University of Bristol over £10 million in funding for two prestigious PhD programmes in the faculties of Health Sciences and Life Sciences.
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Could re-designing supermarkets, bars and restaurants "nudge" us towards healthy habits?
16 January 2018
Behavioural and cognitive scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol today launched a new four year programme of research funded by a prestigious Wellcome Collaborative Award in Science to investigate ways to 'nudge' people towards healthier behaviour.
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Multi-million Euro grant to research the mechanism of viral infection
11 October 2019
The European Research Council has awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant worth €7.6 million to the University of Bristol and Swiss partners, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and the ETH Zurich, for a joint research project looking at the molecular mechanisms of viral infection.
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Environmental awards recognise Bristol’s student engagement
26 November 2015
Two University of Bristol projects are in the running for one of the UK’s most prestigious environmental awards, due to be announced this evening (26 November).
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University of Bristol, Altran and Moltex Energy awarded Innovate UK funding to design wireless nuclear control system
15 January 2018
Altran has announced that it is leading a consortium of Moltex Energy and the University of Bristol to deliver the ICON research project, which will explore the feasibility of designing a nuclear control system using wireless technology.
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DEEP PURPLE – future biological darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet
11 October 2019
An ERC (European Research Council) Synergy grant of €11 million over six years (2020-2026) has been awarded to an international group of scientists coordinated by the University of Bristol to examine the role of glacier algae in progressively darkening the Greenland Ice Sheet surface in a warming climate.
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People with mobility issues set to benefit from wearable devices
13 June 2019
The lives of thousands of people with mobility issues could be transformed thanks to ground-breaking research by scientists at the University of Bristol.
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Wider bandwidths and faster channel dynamics testing now in Bristol
23 September 2015
The University of Bristol’s 5G research has been given a boost thanks to a grant of £540,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a state-of-the-art upgrade to Bristol’s wireless channel emulation facility.
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Bristol to lead revolutionary research into 'self-healing' materials
11 January 2018
A consortium of seven institutions led by the University of Bristol, has received a grant of £2.7m to undertake ground-breaking research into manufacturing new materials which have the ability to self-heal or regenerate.
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UK’s leading surgeons mark official launch of £21m NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
1 February 2018
Almost a third of hospital admissions involve a surgical procedure and with 4.7 million operations carried out in the UK each year and numbers rising year on year, surgery is one of the most important life-saving treatments offered to patients. Innovative surgical procedures are continually being developed but how are they tested to ensure they are safe? Two of the UK’s leading academic surgeons will answer these questions at a public lecture and debate on Thursday 1 February 2018 to mark the official launch of the £21 million National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
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