Midlands to benefit from £4.5m investment

The Midlands region is set to benefit from strategic investment by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) of £4.5 million to support collaborative projects between academics at the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, N...

MICRA Grants Programme Opens for Applications

The MICRA programme (Midlands Innovation Commercialisation of Research Accelerator) is pleased to announce that it has opened its grant awards scheme for applications. There are two types of grants available to targeted members of the MICRA...

Midlands Innovation launches new programme to develop technician skills

Midlands Innovation has selected 24 technicians to take part in a pilot Technical Skills Placement Programme (TSPP) designed to help them learn new skills and develop their careers. Midlands Innovation consists of eight leading universities...

New clues about why non-smokers, as well as smokers, develop chronic lung disease revealed

A group of researchers led by the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham has discovered genetic differences that put some people at higher risk than others of developing chronic lung disease. The new study, published in Nature Geneti...

Alice Roberts announced as keynote speaker at UK’s largest university technicians’ summit

The anthropologist, author and TV presenter - Alice Roberts, has been announced as the first keynote speaker for the Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS) 2019, the UK’s biggest conference for university and research institute technic...

Midlands ICURE Ev­ents To Showcase University Spin-out Companies

Eleven new university spin-out companies are gearing up to present their ideas later this month at two showcase events in London and Birmingham. They will be going all out to convince an invited audience of funders and investors to support their...