Research into drug discovery and healthcare will be accelerated with a multi-million pound investment.
Scientists are to receive £11.4 million over five years for a new centre to advance research in synthetic biology – the design of biological organisms with new or improved functions.
Anna Dunbar, a postgraduate student in the Institute for Energy Systems, has won the Best Poster Prize at the first UK Energy Storage Research Conference (UKES2014) held at Warwick University in November 2014.
Senior hardware engineer Naomi Mitchison, who graduated with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2009, has been named the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year for her inspirational work with laser warning systems for military aircraft.