Tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges, 97 of the UK’s most talented researchers will be backed with £113 million to help bring their innovative ideas from lab to market and provide bold solutions to tackle major global issues ranging from climate change and chronic disease to hate speech.

The investment, delivered through UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) flagship Future Leaders Fellowships scheme, will enable the most promising scientists and researchers in Bristol and across the UK to fund vital equipment and researcher wages to help drive forward their studies more quickly. 

Other projects at the University of Bristol announced today also include:

• Dr James Armstrong, who will lead a study into brain organoids – tiny, self-organized three-dimensional tissues that are derived from stem cells, which have been used to model human brain development and neurological conditions. Dr Armstrong’s project seeks to use new bioengineering tools to produce organoids with an asymmetry that matches the developing human brain. These organoids will provide new opportunities to study many serious neurological conditions, while the bioengineering tools will be tested in other organoids, such as those that model the pancreas or endometrium.

Read the full University of Bristol press release.