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Engineering alumni and student among the winners of the King’s College Entrepreneurship Prize

08 Oct 2025

Alumni Nathan Jackrazi and Amy Rochford are announced the winners of the 2025 King’s College Entrepreneurship Prize with their start-up Axo Neurotech. MPhil student Chris Tagnon won 3rd prize

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Alumnus Michael Korn

Alumnus launches BLUE GARAGE to bridge UK’s innovation gap

06 Oct 2025

Alumnus Michael Korn has launched a new venture aimed at addressing one of the UK’s most persistent challenges - turning world-class innovation into commercial success.

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An illustration of the microfibres in action, showing the in situ orbital spinning technique, with various uses

Smart microfibres turn everyday objects into healthcare monitors and energy devices

01 Oct 2025

New research could redefine how we interact with everyday tools and devices – thanks to a novel method for printing ultra-thin conductive microfibres.

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Patients three times more likely to die after abdominal trauma surgery in the world’s least developed countries

29 Sep 2025

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed.

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Professor Swami Swaminathan elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

24 Sep 2025

Congratulations to Professor Swami Swaminathan on being elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession.

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Hugh Thomas

Can sharing car trips deliver meaningful emissions savings?

22 Sep 2025

Hugh Thomas has won the John Winbolt Prize for his paper; 'Can sharing car trips deliver meaningful emissions savings? The case of Great Britain'.

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From lab to market: Department spin-out to develop wearable e-textile tech for early detection of heart defects

17 Sep 2025

Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano has taken his PhD research to the next level by launching Polytecks – a spin-out dedicated to faster, earlier and more accurate diagnostics for heart defects.

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Lane Painter

Alumni profile: Lane Painter's mission to Mars

15 Sep 2025

As a child growing up in New Jersey, Lane Painter was fascinated by robots of all kinds. He was curious about how they worked, how they were built, and most importantly, what they might do.

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L-R - Patrick Carter-Cortez and Maximilian Kraus

Nuclear Futures: Shaping Dialogue in a Changing World

11 Sep 2025

Patrick Carter-Cortez and Maximilian Kraus attended the Nuclear Futures: Shaping Dialogue in a Changing World conference and both won Certificates of Achievement for Best Abstract in Category

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Qi Wang

International prizes for pioneering work on high-temperature superconducting magnets

10 Sep 2025

PhD research student Qi Wang wins two prestigious international prizes for Advances in Superconducting Trapped Field Magnets.

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