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Sarah Barron and her supervisor, Roisin Owens, with Sarah's award trophy

PhD student awarded Vice Chancellor's Social Impact award for her outreach work

3 June 2022

PhD student in BEST group, Sarah Barron, has just been awarded the Vice Chancellor's social impact award for her contribution to scientific outreach, education, and communication.

Alzheimer’s disease causes cells to overheat and ‘fry like eggs’

Researchers have shown that aggregation of amyloid-beta, one of two key proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, causes cells to overheat and ‘fry like eggs.’

‘IZY Solution’ from Eastbourne College win Davidson Inventors Challenge with solar water sterilisation system

A team of year 12 students from Eastbourne College in Eastbourne, UK, were crowned winners of our second Davidson Inventors Challenge, an innovation competition for schools focused on sustainability.

Secret to treating ‘Achilles’ heel’ of alternatives to silicon solar panels revealed

A team of researchers from the UK and Japan has found that the tiny defects which limit the efficiency of perovskites – cheaper alternative materials for solar cells – are also responsible for structural changes in the material that lead to degradation.

Research excellence at CEB

Cambridge’s global reputation in Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and Materials Science recognised in REF 2021.

Enabling novel technologies for ammonia as an energy vector in a carbon-free society

28 April 2022

Dr Laura Torrente, leader of our Catalysis and Process Integration group, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant of €2.1 million to develop novel processes and functional energy materials for the storage of renewable energy in ammonia, a carbon-free energy vector.

‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one third of scientific results are reproducible

Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the ‘robot scientist’ Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The problem of lack of reproducibility is one of the biggest crises facing modern science.

Alumna Fiona Erskine to publish 'The Chemical Cocktail' the third book in her thriller novel saga

24 March 2022

Alumna Fiona Erskine, a professional chemical engineer turned author, is to publish book number 3 in her Jaq Silver series, 'The Chemical Cocktail,’ which comes out in May 2022 in e-book and June 2023 in paperback.

Professor Róisín Owens awarded ERC Proof of Concept grant to commercialise gut-on-a-chip models for more accurate drug screening

9 February 2022

Professor Róisín Owens, who leads the Bioelectronic Systems Technology group, has been awarded the €150,000 European Research Council grant for a collaborative project with Cambridge-based company CN Bio , a leading Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) company.

Cutting-edge microscopy shines light on fundamental parts of COVID-19 virus replication

10 January 2022

Researchers from our Laser Analytics and Molecular Neuroscience groups used advanced super-resolution microscopy methods to visualise the movements of four proteins that are key to the replication cycle of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within host cells.

PhD student awarded Vice Chancellor's Social Impact award for her outreach work

Alzheimer’s disease causes cells to overheat and ‘fry like eggs’

‘IZY Solution’ from Eastbourne College win Davidson Inventors Challenge with solar water sterilisation system

Secret to treating ‘Achilles’ heel’ of alternatives to silicon solar panels revealed

Research excellence at CEB

Enabling novel technologies for ammonia as an energy vector in a carbon-free society

‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one third of scientific results are reproducible

Alumna Fiona Erskine to publish 'The Chemical Cocktail' the third book in her thriller novel saga

Professor Róisín Owens awarded ERC Proof of Concept grant to commercialise gut-on-a-chip models for more accurate drug screening

Cutting-edge microscopy shines light on fundamental parts of COVID-19 virus replication

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