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The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants aim to help exceptional younger scientists at the start of their careers to launch their own projects, form their teams and fulfil their best ideas. The recipients, who have received…

This means that UK organisations, including UCL, can apply to participate in and lead projects, and ends months of uncertainty about the status of UK research teams.Under the new agreement, announced today, the UK will also associate to…

The study, published in Gerontology, analysed data from 4,428 individuals over the age of 50 who took part in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) COVID-19 Sub Study in 2020.Researchers then placed participants into four groups…

A team from the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, the University of East Anglia (UEA) and King’s College London surveyed more than 5,000 people aged 18 years and older during the 2022 mpox (previously known as “monkeypox”) outbreak. The…

The report, titled Land, Landowners, and the Delivery of Affordable Homes in Rural Areas, outlines the housing affordability issues facing rural towns and parishes, and highlights how greater use of the already-established Rural Exception…

The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, aimed to see if the benefits of hobbies were consistent in different national settings, and looked at data from 93,263 people aged 65 or over who had enrolled in five existing…

RETFound, one of the first AI foundation models in healthcare, and the first in ophthalmology, was developed using millions of eye scans from the NHS. The research team are making the system open-source: freely available to use by any…

The condition, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is a rapidly progressing and devastating condition that causes paralysis by affecting motor neurons, with limited treatment options.Until now, scientists were aware that a…

The British Academy, founded in 1902, is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, and brings together over 1,600 leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas. It is also a funding body for national and…

The £2.5million research project, titled The Consortium on Practices of Wellbeing and Resilience in BAME families and Communities (Co-POWeR), details an 18-month investigation exploring the impact of the pandemic on people of Black, Asian…