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LanthaGen Bio Ltd secures major funding and a partnership with the Jeremy Coller Foundation, following a final pitch that capped off a packed Innovation Week at The University of Manchester.

One World Together (OWT) has been awarded a prize at the University of Manchester’s inaugural Partnership Excellence Awards. 

Dr Omer Aijazi, Senior Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), has been awarded the Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize for his critically acclaimed monograph, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster …

The Dalton Nuclear Institute has been recognised as “world-leading” by Prime Minister Andy Burnham during his Innovation Nation speech in Manchester, where he outlined his vision for the UK to become the world's leading innovation nation.

A major milestone has been reached for Atom Valley with completion of the base build of the Sustainable Materials & Manufacturing Centre (SMMC) at Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale, which is set to become a nationally significant gateway driving …

Day four of the Innovation Festival looked outwards from Manchester to the world. At the inaugural Cambridge x Manchester Partnership Innovation Summit, founders, investors, and policymakers asked how two cities working together could boost the UK’s …

The Teach Economics programme, delivered by The University of Manchester in partnership with the Bank of England, is celebrating the successful completion of its first year, with 18 teachers from across North-West England completing …

An international team of Astronomers including researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Oxford have used a combination of the MeerKAT telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) seen to …

Faults in a gene known for causing a devastating childhood metabolic illness can also cause a form of inherited blindness in adults, an international study co-led by scientists at the University of Manchester, University College London and the …

Research suggests primary school pupils can engage with complex ideas about fairness, freedom and equality – and develop their own ideas about what rights people

The University of Manchester celebrated the very best in collaboration and knowledge exchange last night at the inaugural Partnership Excellence Awards, recognising the people, projects and organisations delivering outstanding impact through …

On day three of the Innovation Festival, spinouts showed their work at University Place, the teams that support them gathered in the Whitworth Hall, and the first Partnership Excellence Awards celebrated the collaborations turning Manchester’s …

A breakthrough graphene-based brain sensor could help doctors watch the hidden damage unfolding during a stroke in real time, offering new hope of preventing devastating brain injuries before they become irreversible.

The CDT in 2D Materials of Tomorrow hosted its Industry Engagement and Partnership Day at the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, bringing together academics, GEIC specialists and companies to identify industrial challenges and develop new …

Organisations working on heath inequalities are invited to bring their challenges to a collaborative workshop at the University of Manchester, with the chance to develop a collaborative project, seed funded by Healthier Futures. On Tuesday 24 …

Student ideas and global ambitions step into the spotlight as the week’s events build momentum.

Researchers at The University of Manchester have secured a £1.2 million EPSRC grant to investigate how water and electrolytes behave when confined to atomically thin spaces.

Postgraduate students using their accounting skills to help organisations across the city tackle practical financial challenges

The University of Manchester is launching a £10m Founders Fund backed by philanthropic donations to provide early-stage investment to students, staff, alumni and University-affiliated start-up and spin-out ventures. Alumnus and philanthropist Dr …

Innovation Festival kicks off with a packed launch event highlighted Manchester’s strategy for impact through innovation.

University of Manchester researchers form part of a team of experts working on the British Election Study, the UK’s longest-running survey of voting behaviour.

Omar Rivasplata's key paper on Reinforcement Learning via semi-pessimistic pseudo labelling has been accepted in JASA, the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

A pioneering new study taking place in Manchester is investigating whether breast milk could help detect breast cancer earlier than a blood test or a scan.

University of Manchester-led researchers have unveiled a roadmap for making computer-generated evidence trustworthy enough to help regulators decide whether medical devices are safe and effective, alongside laboratory and clinical evidence.Published …

The University of Manchester is launching a £10m Founders Fund to provide crucial pre-seed investment for the next generation of entrepreneurs with an initial £3m already secured. The Fund will be managed by Unit M, the University’s innovation …

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to engineer lead-free piezoelectric ceramics by creating internal "heterostructures" within the material, unlocking interface-driven effects that could enhance the performance of sensors and actuators …

The University of Manchester brings together transport expertise in areas including aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, future fuels, advanced materials, electrical infrastructure, social science, transport planning, sustainable transport and policy and …

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The University of Manchester has retained its place among the UK’s top ten universities in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

University of Manchester undergraduate has won second place in the Cambridge Edge AI Innovation for Sustainability Challenge 2026 with a concept designed to improve early wildfire detection whilst reducing reliance on energy-intensive data centres. …