Grants and awards
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Bristol Professor elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
27 June 2018
A Professor in the Bristol Medical School has been recognised for their contribution to research in orthopaedic surgery with their election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
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Bristol researcher wins BHF Research Story of the Year for work on children’s heart plaster
7 December 2023
A University of Bristol researcher who has developed a new type of 'heart plaster' that could improve the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease has won this year's British Heart Foundation (BHF) Research Story of the Year. The award is part of the charity's annual Heart Hero Awards 2023.
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Prestigious Research Council appointments for Bristol Professors
23 March 2018
The Board of UK Research and Innovation has announced today (23 March 2018) the appointment of Bristol Professors, John Iredale and David Stephens, to the councils of the MRC and BBSRC respectively.
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Bristol start-up takes quantum leap in innovation
12 June 2018
A University of Bristol start-up business specialising in quantum encryption has been named the UK’s Most Innovative Small Cyber Security Company of the Year.
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Bristol's Rachael De'Ath named top in 50 women Engineers
25 June 2018
Rachael De’Ath, a senior teaching associate at the University of Bristol and a senior structural engineer at Arup Bristol, has been announced as a winner in ‘The Telegraph Top 50 Women in Engineering’ 2018.
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£4.9 million award to investigate pioneering biological electronics
28 January 2022
Researchers from universities across the UK, led by the University of Bristol, have been awarded £4.9 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK’s largest bioscience funder, to investigate how electrons and energy flow through biological molecules by building artificial protein-based wires and circuits.
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Bristol researchers win EPSRC fellowship to develop AI for early disease diagnosis in calves
22 June 2018
Two researchers at the University of Bristol have been awarded a joint Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Fellowship to investigate early disease diagnosis in dairy calves using artificial intelligence (AI) methods.
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Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence to help drive translation of Bristol’s world-leading synthetic biology research
22 March 2018
Dr David Tew, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technology and GSK Senior Fellow at GlaxoSmithKline, will join the University of Bristol as a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence from September 2018.
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Bristol and Bath’s MyWorld initiative launches £2million funding opportunity for businesses to drive the future of creative technologies
8 April 2022
Businesses from across the West of England are invited to pitch innovative projects for a share of £2million funding, which will advance technologies and improve audience experience in the creative sector.
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Bristol researcher awarded fellowship to help change the lives of people suffering with chronic pain
18 February 2022
A new £300k research fellowship has been awarded to Dr Robert Drake at the University of Bristol to
carry out research exploring how injury affects brain function to cause chronic pain. The award, which is part of a £1.2 million Medical Research Foundation grant, aims to improve pain diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, for the vast number of people who live with unrelenting pain.
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