Professor Edwards receives Royal Agricultural Society award
Professor Keith Edwards has been awarded the 2011 Royal Agricultural Society Research Medal for his leading role in the sequencing of the wheat genome.
Grants and awards
Bristol Heart Institute awarded £297,000 for improved blood transfusion methods
A research team led by Gavin Murphy, Reader in Cardiac Surgery in the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol, has been awarded £297,000 by the British Heart Foundation to develop blood transfusion methods that reduce the risk of organ injury during cardiac surgery.
Engineering academic elected a Fellow of the IEEE
Professor Mario di Bernardo in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and a member of the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Study to look at nerve cells in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been awarded a grant that by using state-of-the-art stem cell technology will enable them to analyse nerve cells produced from skin biopsies of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Post-doc article selected for Philosopher’s Annual
Dr Richard Pettigrew, British Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, is co-author of an article that has been chosen by the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2010.
Dyson bursary to fund research into developing robotic tools
Research into how robotic tools could help humans perform everyday tasks more efficiently is being carried out by a Bristol University student thanks to a bursary from the James Dyson Foundation worth £75,000.
€3.5m for research into volcanic unrest
A collaborative research project that could significantly improve our understanding of the processes behind volcanic unrest and our ability to forecast its outcomes has been awarded almost €3.5 million by the European Commission.
Professor Derek Offord named in New Year honours list
Professor Derek Offord has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year honours list for services to Russian studies in language and culture.
Bristol-Open University collaboration wins Peter Townsend memorial book prize
A book co-authored by Randall Smith, Professor of Social Gerontology in the School for Policy Studies, and colleagues Julia Johnson and Sheena Rolph from The Open University, has won the inaugural Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize.
Research grant to study Lewy body disease
Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Dementia Research Group have been awarded a grant by local charity BRACE to investigate Lewy body disease and its association with other diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.