Press releases

A £9.4 million collaborative research centre, involving researchers from the University of Nottingham, will accelerate improved tests, treatments and potentially cures for thousands of people living with rare respiratory diseases.

A significant milestone in the construction of the NHS National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) was cause for celebration this week for the project partners committed to making the facility a reality.

Experts have developed a new tool, called QR4, that more accurately predicts an individual's ten-year risk of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke, particularly identifying high-risk patients that current prediction tools miss.

A new study has found that by offering stop smoking support as part of the national lung cancer screening programme, there is potential to save lives, and dedicated funding must be considered by policy makers.

New research has found that a natural predatory bacteria, long known to target its prey by burrowing inside of them, is actually able to kill by delivering a ‘kiss of death, meaning it doesn’t have to live inside its prey to kill it, as previously thought.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered that prostate cancer is able to spread through a man’s body by taking off the genetic ‘handbrake’ that stops cells growing out of control — and a new project will now work out how to put the brakes back on.

A new study has found that nursing students’ compassion is not increased by previous paid care experience, which discredits the idea that they should have care experience before embarking on training

Experts at the University of Nottingham are joining forces with Stand Against MND and the MND Association, to carry out research to better understand motor neurone disease (MND) mechanisms – the biochemical processes that go wrong – in order to speed up the race to find new treatments.

A third-year learning disability nursing student from the University of Nottingham has developed a resource for healthcare workers to help them use Makaton when communicating with patients who have learning or communication difficulties.

A group of leading scientists from the University of Nottingham are part of a global, interdisciplinary team of experts who will be taking on cancer inequities, thanks to a Cancer Grand Challenges award.