Press release

Spin-outs from four German and two UK universities feature among the nine finalists in the 2014 ACES Awards, along with universities from Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland.

Three companies with close links to UCL have triumphed in three different enterprise competitions, winning prizes and acclaim across Europe.

Limpopo local government staff and Venda University are to work with the University of Warwick to develop and share new skills following a grant from the British High Commission.

After eight years as Chalmers president, Karin Markides has informed the board that she will not be standing for a third term. This means she will be relinquishing her position as president and CEO of Chalmers tekniska högskola AB in just over a year’s time, on the 31st of July 2015.

An experimental economics study at the University of Bologna explains why northern and southern Italians behave differently when it comes to cooperating and trusting others.

“Internal demonstration of strength and active choices”. It’s a question of opting in and opting out for the Karolinska Institutet over the next five years. On 28 April, the Board pushed through the new strategy document “Strategy 2018”. It will be implemented in September on a broad front in the organisation.

Exceptional inventors from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, UK, Japan and the US honoured with European Inventor Award 2014

King’s College London and the University of Warwick, in partnership with New York University, plan a major initiative in collaboration with the GLA and Southwark Council to launch 'CUSP London', a branch of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress to be based at Canada Water from 2018.

Imperial Innovations is pleased to note that one of its portfolio of companies, PsiOxus Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative new treatments for cancer today announced the first dosing of a patient in the OCTAVE (Ovarian Cancer Treated with Adeno Vaccine Enadenotucirev) study.

Edvard and May-Britt Moser, co-directors of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, have been selected for the €750 000 award from the Hamburg, Germany based Körber Foundation.