UK business incubator named number one in Europe
A university business incubator, responsible for helping UK businesses secure over £1 billion investment, has been ranked the best in Europe and second best in the world.
Grants and awards
Professor Wall wins international prize in veterinary parasitology
Professor Richard Wall from the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded the 2013 WAAVP/Bayer Prize for excellence in research in veterinary parasitology.
Bristol scientist to study new ways to tackle Alzheimer’s
A project that will investigate new ways to protect brain cells from damage in Alzheimer’s will begin this month thanks to an Alzheimer’s Research UK grant. The one-year pilot project, led by Dr Nina Balthasar at the University of Bristol, could bring new treatments for Alzheimer’s a step closer.
Bristol academics elected Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Katharine Ellis of the Department of Music and Professor Ronald Hutton of the Department of History have achieved the rare distinction of being elected Fellows of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Politics student wins national essay award
Ellen Friend, a third-year Politics student in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), has been awarded the Political Studies Association (PSA) Women and Politics Specialist Group Undergraduate Essay Prize.
Engine Shed wins south-west heritage award
The enterprise hub, Engine Shed, which houses the University’s award-winning business incubator SETsquared, has won best heritage project in the South West Built Environment awards.
Medical student wins poster presentation at international meningitis conference
Tomos Edwards, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Bristol, was awarded first prize for his poster presentation on ‘The Orthopaedic Sequelae of Childhood Meningococcal Septicaemia’ at the recent Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) conference ‘Meningitis and Septicaemia in Children and Adults 2013’.
Bristol awarded its first Wellcome and NIH PhD studentship
The Wellcome Trust and the US National Institutes of Health have awarded a four-year PhD studentship to Mahsa Samadi, for a joint project with Professor Zafar Bashir at Bristol and Dr Serena Dudek in the US.
Bristol engineers take the lead again
Following on from previous years’ successes, six engineering students from the University of Bristol have been selected as ‘inspirational role models to the next generation of engineers’ by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Bristol spearheads UK’s role in €4million synthetic biology project
The University of Bristol has been awarded a share of a €4million (£3.3million) European Union grant to improve public awareness of synthetic biology - an emerging field of science and technology which has huge potential for producing new fuels, materials and medicines in the future.