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Professors Chen, Day, Pochan and Wang recognized for excellence in medical and biological engineering

/CNW/ - Gender equality will be achieved when people of all genders have opportunities to participate fully in democratic and public life, to attain economic...

Urgent action is needed to make the decommissioning of thousands of offshore structures and ships safer argues Professor Susan Gourvenec,

Greek scientist Elisa Konofagou was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week. Her field of study is radiology and ultrasound. Credit: Facebook/Greek EmbassyGreek scientist Elisa Konofagou, a professor of biomedical engineering and a professor of radiology at Columbia University, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine on Wednesday.One of the highest honors…

Researchers link to facilitate cheaper biologics 6th April 2021 The University of Edinburgh and FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies UK (FDB) are leading an £8.7 million, five-year research collaboration to develop more cost-effective ways to make modern antibody-based medicines. The partnership will use the latest analytical tools and engineering biology approaches to enable cost-effective manufacturing of biological drugs. FDB will work with the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and York t...

2nd March 2021 11:23 am 2nd March 2021 11:23 am An international project aims to create new photonic tools that can access the deep brain and provide further understanding of neurological diseases. Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay Strathclyde University is the UK participant in DEEPER (Deep Brain Photonic Tools for Cell-Type Specific Targeting of Neural Diseases), which is investigating the deep-brain alterations underlying the origin of neurological and psychiatric diseases such as deme...

Memristor chip Themis Prodromakis, Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Southampton, has received prestigious recognition from the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. Professor Prodromakis, Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers in the University’s Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics has been selected as a Finalist in the category of ‘Physical Sciences and Engineering’ and will receive £23,000. This award recognises his contributions...