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University of Birmingham Hosts Inaugural Horizon Europe Insights Day
The University of Birmingham is welcoming researchers, entrepreneurs, and government colleagues to campus as it hosts the first Horizon Europe Insights Day. Hundreds of guests from across the country are expected on the Edgbaston campus…
University of Birmingham Scholar Receives British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Griffiths leads research on deportation, the 'hostile environment' and new developments in immigration enforcement. Her fellowship will focus on The Home Office in the Home: Mixed-citizenship families and immigration policing.…
University of Birmingham: Highlighting Research for Brain Injury Awareness Month and Brain Awareness…
The event, hosted by Professor Zubair Ahmed, saw numerous researchers showcase their work in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, earlier this week. This meant that members of the public could find out more about ongoing…
Research on Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Spotlighted in Washington and…
Professor Sabine Lee and filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar last week participated in the film screening of The Wound is Where the Light Enters, as part of a joint event of the Luxembourg-based foundation Stand Speak Rise Up! and the UK-based…
University of Birmingham’s Salinity Solutions Secures £1M Investment from SQM Lithium Ventures
Salinity Solutions, an engineering tech start-up based in Birmingham (UK) has secured a GBP £1 million initial investment from SQM Lithium Ventures to fund the next stage of its growth. SQM Lithium Ventures, in return, will take ownership…
Feasibility of Non-Specialist Healthcare Professionals Removing Incorrect Penicillin Allergy Labels
Patients who may have been mis-labelled as allergic to penicillin could be safely offered a dose of the oral antibiotic to demonstrate that they could take it without harm, following a new trial.
In a new study published in the Journal…
University of Birmingham: Global Health Research Showcase Highlights Achievements and Sparks…
The 2024 Global Health Research Showcase brought together (in person and online) celebrated academics in the Global Health field discussing their areas of work and the links between evidence to policy and change. There were speakers not…
European Partnership Boosts BHF Funding for Heart Research
A Birmingham researcher will join forces with teams in Germany and the Netherlands to drive breakthroughs in heart and circulatory diseases research, thanks to a pioneering partnership between the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart…
Breakthrough: Scientists Develop Ingestible Capsule with Sensors to Detect Gut Pressure and Failure…
The ingestible system will give colorectal medical teams an unprecedented understanding of the movement of a patient’s digestive tract, or lack thereof.
Instead of simply taking images of inside the guts, the system will sense whether…
Implementing Green Surgery: Key to Decreasing Global Healthcare Carbon Footprint
As the world hurtles towards a seemingly unstoppable climate crisis, the search has intensified for ways of reducing the amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide that humanity pumps into the atmosphere.
The healthcare sector is major…