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Into the underworld: the mountains beneath our feet

14 Jan 2025

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it shaped the surface and...

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Making an impact: Gates Cambridge turns 25

06 Jan 2025

What unites a wildlife cameraman, a quantum physicist and the co-founder of a solar energy business? For Gates Cambridge Scholars, it's the desire to...

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Dr Nicola Patron in her lab

The lab making food healthier and medicine cheaper

16 Dec 2024

Dr Nicola Patron is cultivating a new kind of biotechnology, where we can read nature’s blueprints and direct its energy to more potent ends.

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Professor Duncan Richards appointed as Head of Department of Medicine

06 Dec 2024

Professor Duncan Richards has today been announced as the new Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge.

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Professor David Rowitch elected to US National Academy of Medicine

21 Oct 2024

Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy...

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Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen.

Simon Baron-Cohen wins MRC Millennium Medal for transformative research into autism and neurodiversity

20 Jun 2024

The UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK will today present the MRC Millennium Medal 2023 to Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, in recognition...

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Cambridge experts awarded 2024 Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowships

21 May 2024

Two Cambridge Fellows are among the new Academy of Medical Sciences Fellows announced today.

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Harriet Loffler in front of painting

The curator reframing our experiences of art

17 May 2024

“Art doesn’t need to be in an elaborate frame on the wall of a gallery,” says Harriet Loffler, curator of The Women’s Art Collection at Murray...

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Ata Allah Elibizanti

Gates Cambridge: Class of 2024

17 Apr 2024

This year’s Gates Cambridge cohort comprises 75 new scholars, studying areas from the impact of climate change on tropical biodiversity to how the...

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Left to right: Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane, Erwin Reisner

Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

14 Mar 2024

Three Cambridge researchers – Professors Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane and Erwin Reisner – have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair...

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Professor Hiranya Peiris with the Northumberland Telescope at the Institute of Astronomy.

The cosmologist solving questions at the boundary of our understanding

13 Nov 2023

Hiranya Peiris is Cambridge’s new Professor of Astrophysics (1909). She discusses being inspired by Stephen Hawking, the unknown space before you...

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Professor Patrick Chinnery

Leading Cambridge neuroscientist appointed as Executive Chair of Medical Research Council

22 Aug 2023

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed as the new Executive...

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