Dr Lengwe Sinkala (International Health Systems Group at Cambridge) will research how paediatric surgical services can be redesigned to better support neurodivergent children.
Uni spin-out, CamGraPhIC, receives EC greenlight for €211m funding (about £183m) from Italy to support the development of photonic optical transceivers based on graphene.
DropCode founded by three Cambridge alumni, is accelerating bioengineering with a droplet-microfluidics platform that uses DNA barcodes to run millions of experiments faster and cheaper.
Differences in cellular pathway activity flip the switch from nocturnality to diurnality and explain a major evolutionary change humans have undergone.
Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails – known as contrails – could reduce aviation’s global warming impact by nearly half.
Apurva Chitnis and Jad Esber first crossed paths through Headstart, a residential summer school programme, before going on to read Engineering at Emmanuel and Magdalene colleges.
Alumna and astronaut Dr Jenni Gibbons is supporting the historic Artemis II mission – by acting as the critical voice link between the astronauts in space and the teams on the ground.