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Recent News

University of Nottingham receives £4.4m funding for world-class bioscience research programme

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The GlycoWeb programme led by BDI's Cathy Merry, Professor of Stem Cell Glycobiology, will look at the link between the structure and function of cell-surface sugar biomolecules called Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). GAGs have been shown to play critical roles in a multitude of biological processes, including cell signalling and development and host-pathogen interactions. The team assembled for this programme will apply a diverse set of approaches to address fundamental knowledge gaps surroudning GAGs using an ambitious multidisciplinary approach, integrating analyses at the transcriptional through to the multicellular level.

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14 November 2023

Synthetic hydrogels: replicating in vivo environments

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Professor Cathy Merry has developed synthetic hydrogels that support 3D culture for multiple cell types and used NC3Rs funding to support their application across multiple scientific disciplines. Cathy has formed many collaborations to enable the wider uptake of the synthetic hydrogel technology and through the BBSRC ICure programme and Innovate UK has co-founded PeptiMatrix, to provide more research groups access to synthetic hydrogels. Hear from Cathy, Dr Jennifer Ashworth, Professor Anna Grabowska and Dr Johnathan Curd about the synthetic hydrogel technology and its applications in research.

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14 November 2023

Hannah Jackson selected to host UKEV conference

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Hannah Jackson (ECR Board member for UKEV Society) has been selected to host the next UKEV conference, which this year is taking place at Cambridge University

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14 November 2023

AI-powered breast cancer diagnosis tool wins the UK Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award

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University of Nottingham is part of a pioneering £100m NHS consortium set to use a ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI) tool to speed up the diagnosis of breast cancer – potentially saving more lives. The tool – Galen™ Breast – developed by Ibex Medical Analytics, a world leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, was announced as the winner of the UK Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award thanks to a grant led by Professor Emad Rakha UoN.

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14 November 2023

University spin-out awarded £995K Innovate UK grant

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TherageniX and University of Nottingham Awarded £995K to Develop Powdered Gene Therapy for Bone Regeneration

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15 September 2023