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Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRS

Professor Malcolm Smith elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2026

27 May 2026

Professor Malcolm Smith has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

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Gates Cambridge class of 2026 – introducing Dr Lengwe Sinkala  

20 May 2026

Dr Lengwe Sinkala (International Health Systems Group at Cambridge) will research how paediatric surgical services can be redesigned to better support neurodivergent children.

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DJ Hamblin-Brown

Alumni stories: Meet DJ Hamblin-Brown emergency doctor and patient safety advocate

13 May 2026

Meet an inspiring individual whose journey spans computer science, engineering, and medicine.

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European Commission greenlights €211 million funding for Cambridge graphene photonics spin-out

05 May 2026

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.

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Breaking the bottlenecks: Cambridge alumni launch AI platform to accelerate infrastructure and development planning

30 Apr 2026

Two Cambridge alumni have co-founded SchemeFlow – an AI platform that rapidly generates technical documentation for construction projects.

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L-R: Max Barysevich, Elliot J. Medcalf and Peter J. Christopher

TechBio company DropCode founded by three Cambridge alumni

27 Apr 2026

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.

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The cellular switch that explains why humans aren’t nocturnal

23 Apr 2026

Differences in cellular pathway activity flip the switch from nocturnality to diurnality and explain a major evolutionary change humans have undergone.

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Thomas Sutton

Alumni Stories: Meet Thomas Sutton driving continuous improvement in sugar processing

20 Apr 2026

Thomas has built a career driven by a passion for improving manufacturing. 

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Contrails against a blue sky with a plane visible

Changing flight paths could slash aviation’s climate impact, study suggests

16 Apr 2026

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.

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Jad (left) and Apurva

From Headstart to the frontiers of personalised intelligence

13 Apr 2026

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. 

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