Press release

An Imperial team is carrying out research to help with the clean-up of nuclear waste following the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

Over the last few weeks, CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE, has been producing ion beams at higher energies. The first cryomodule of the new HIE-ISOLDE (High-Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) accelerator is up and running, increasing the beam energy from 3 to 4.3 MeV per nucleon.

An improved gene therapy treatment can cure mice with cystic fibrosis (CF). Cell cultures from CF patients, too, respond well to the treatment. Those are the encouraging results of a study presented by the KU Leuven Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy.

Partnership with IBM will equip researchers with ethical guidelines to using big data

A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambridge Graphene Centre

KU Leuven has entered into a strategic partnership with the University of Ljubljana.

Two leaders at King’s - Deborah Bull and Professor Louise Archer – have joined the British Science Association Board of Trustees, in recognition of their work to the science community.

Clinical endocrinologist and innovator, professor Sudhesh Kumar has been appointed as Dean of Warwick Medical School

Philanthropic support of £5m from Cantab Capital Partners, establishes the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information.

On 28 October, KU Leuven inaugurated two brand new research facilities: Leuven Chem&Tech and Leuven NanoCentre.