University of Bristol

A consortium from industry and academia involving the University of Bristol has been awarded €4.5M by the EU, UK and Switzerland to build a next-generation hardware platform which will transform industries from electrical vehicles to…

A link between depression and changes in counts of several types of immune cells in the blood has been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol's MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. These findings, published in Molecular…

Future communication systems including 6G, faster internet access and cloud computing have received £6m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – part of UK Research and Innovation.Bristol’s Smart…

New insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health have been unveiled in the most comprehensive study of its kind, led by the Universities of Bristol and Essex.The researchers hope the findings, published today in the…

The University of Bristol has appointed a Chief Financial Officer, in a newly-created role reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor and President. This significant senior appointment comes at a key moment for the institution, with its…

The discovery of a strain of bacteria shown to reduce inflammation in the intestine caused by irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) could bring relief to millions of sufferers after being turned into an…

Women raised £15 million of the total £33 million raised by the 85 companies at the University of Bristol-led incubator. This is a testament to its long-term focus for inclusivity within the tech sector which includes its programmes,…

Scientists at Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences observed that group safety was improved when animals paid attention to the behaviours of each other.Their findings, published today in PLoS Computational Biology, reveal that simple…

A new tool to value the health effects of urban development proposals has been revealed by researchers at the Universities of Bath and Bristol and published in Frontiers in Public Health.The valuation tool evaluates a range of factors…

A new ‘toolkit’ for senior doctors and hospital managers, that will help make changes to their organisational arrangements and improve the quality of hip fracture care across the UK has been launched by The Royal Osteoporosis Society…