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University of Bristol receives £1m to establish new Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Sciences
2 October 2024
The University of Bristol has received a £1million grant from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to establish a new Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Sciences – an initiative that will span Arts, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.
- Varinder Aggarwal elected fellow of India's National Academy of Sciences 14 October 2024 The School of Chemistry's Professor Varinder Aggarwal has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
- Professor Dek Woolfson to receive prestigious 2025 Vincent du Vigneaud Award 11 October 2024 The School of Chemistry's Professor Dek Woolfson has been announced as one of the winners of the Vincent du Vigneaud Awards for 2025.
- Scientists develop artificial sugars to enhance disease diagnosis and treatment accuracy 8 October 2024 The School of Chemistry's Professor Carmen Galan is among a multi-centre group of scientists to have found a way to create artificial sugars that could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat diseases more accurately than ever before.
- University of Bristol receives £1m to establish new Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Sciences 2 October 2024 The University of Bristol has received a £1million grant from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to establish a new Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Sciences – an initiative that will span Arts, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.
- Dr Alastair Lennox receives funding to develop new treatments towards Chagas disease 10 September 2024 Dr Alastair Lennox has been awarded an International Science Partnership Fund Collaboration Award of £225,000 to work in collaboration with a team in Minas Gerais, Brazil, to develop new treatments towards Chagas disease.
- School of Chemistry academics present at ViCEPHEC 2024 10 September 2024 In August, a group of academic staff from the School of Chemistry presented talks at the Variety in Chemistry Education/ Physics Higher Education Conference (ViCEPHEC) 2024, hosted by the University of Surrey.
- Rob Harniman secures BBSRC funding for cutting-edge Atomic Force Microscopy (bio-AFM) platform 2 September 2024 School of Chemistry Technical Specialist Dr Rob Harniman has secured landmark funding of over £1m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for a cutting-edge Atomic Force Microscopy (bio-AFM) platform at the University of Bristol, to enhance bioscience research in multi-disciplinary programmes across life, health, physical and environmental sciences.
- Ground-breaking study reveals that effective regulation and monitoring are crucial for addressing emissions of a super-greenhouse gas. 22 August 2024 New research has uncovered that factories worldwide are failing to adequately eliminate a highly potent greenhouse gas produced during the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, such as Teflon, and refrigerants.
- Bristol Aerosol Research Centre contributes to final paper of PERFORM project 22 August 2024 Bristol Aerosol Research Centre have collaborated on a recent publication entitled 'Relationship between Exhaled Aerosol and Carbon Dioxide Emission Across Respiratory Activities'.
- Matt Rigby awarded £1m NERC grant for greenhouse gas emissions evaluation and machine learning 7 August 2024 Professor Matt Rigby has been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Pushing the Frontiers grant worth £1m on greenhouse gas emissions evaluation and machine learning.