Category: research

Dr Becky Hall’s scientific career began when she first set foot in the Kent teaching laboratories as an undergraduate Biochemistry student. Back then, she had … Read more

Kent has partnered with Imperial College London to secure $30 million in funding from the Bezos Earth Fund to launch a Centre for Sustainable Protein which will … Read more

Plastic waste, soil health and marketing of UK hops are just some of the challenges that academics in the School of Biosciences and School of Chemistry and Forensic … Read more

Cryptosporidium has been discovered in pre-washed vegetables from major supermarkets in Kent by researchers in the School of Biosciences. The water-borne and food-borne parasite Cryptosporidium, which … Read more

A collaboration between Dr Helen Cockerton from the University’s School of Biosciences and local hop breeder Dr Klara Hajdu (Wye Hops) is beginning to attract media attention for what … Read more

The Academy of Medical Sciences has awarded over £6.6 million to 54 ‘exceptional’ biomedical and health researchers through the Springboard scheme and one of these recipients is … Read more

The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a global threat to human health, and the development of new antibiotics from scratch is an extremely expensive and … Read more

As a Right to Food university, Kent is committed to supporting food systems that advance human health and environmental sustainability in society. This starts with … Read more

A pioneering collaborative project between University of Kent researchers and Wye Hops alongside National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), the British Hop Association, The Hop Plant Company and LGC genomics has been awarded … Read more

Kent bioscientist Professor Martin Warren is set to lead a national consortia which aims to use biology to recover and recycle rare earth elements after securing funding … Read more