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James Hetherington has been appointed as UKRI’s new Director of e-Infrastructure, to commence at the start of the New Year.

UKRI-funded researchers use light to activate a cancer-killing compound which attacks the NADH co-enzyme – a vital energy-producing machinery in the cancer cells.

Solution-focussed research receives £14.8M from the UK government’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) to be developed into practical tools helping millions of people around the world

UK Research and Innovation’s new brand provides a strong identity for the organisation as it realises its ambitions as a world-class funder delivering global impact.

Productivity of UK businesses is set to be supercharged with £88 million in new government investment through the Strategic Priorities Fund.

The Medical Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, has funded the first mental health-awareness audio tour of the National Gallery, launching today on World Mental Health Day.

Professor Elaine Fox, of the University of Oxford, has been appointed as UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Mental Health Networks Impact and Engagement Coordinator.

Baroness Blackwood has today announced over £4M of funding to support a host of SME innovators to develop their exciting healthtech innovations.

The government has provided £5 million of UK aid as part of a programme to manage antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in agriculture and its impact on the environment.

The Nobel Prize for Physics has today been awarded to Professor Didier Queloz, Professor Michel Mayor and Professor James Peebles.

A major new research UKRI programme which will explore what makes teenagers more or less likely to develop mental health problems and how we might intervene early, has been announced by the government today.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 today, jointly with William Kaelin Jr and Gregg Semenza, ‘for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability’.

Ancient scrolls are being virtually “unwrapped” using the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, combined with special techniques developed by a team from the University of Kentucky.

UKRI will be holding a Citizen Science Fund Webinar on Friday 11 October 2019 from 14:00 – 14:45.

Professor Rory Duncan will take up the role of UKRI Director for Talent and Skills in November. Rory will be on secondment from Heriot-Watt University, where he is currently Senior Academic Lead for Strategy and Development and Co-Director of the Edinburgh super-resolution imaging consortium (ESRIC).

The UK’s new polar research ship is formally named the RRS Sir David Attenborough by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

A challenge, run by UKRI on behalf of the government, will help farmers to reduce pollution and boost food production through the integrated use of new digital technologies, sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

British satellites will be better protected through a £20 m boost to predict severe space weather events, the PM has announced today whilst at the UN General Assembly.