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Stop Food Waste Day: helping businesses turn food waste into profit

By School of Natural Sciences | 30 April 2025

It’s estimated that 45% of root crops, fruit and vegetables produced globally is lost or wasted every year. To help change this, Kent researchers have … Read more

Kent to lead national diagnostics development Centre

By School of Natural Sciences | 21 January 2025

Kent academics Professor Mark Smales and Professor Kathy Kotiadis are set to lead an £8.2 million project supported by a £3.8m Research England grant which will unite England’s world-class diagnostics expertise … Read more

From Welcome Week to Wellcome Trust Award

By School of Natural Sciences | 05 August 2024

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 partnership secures Bezos funding to create sustainable food solutions

By School of Natural Sciences | 24 June 2024

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

Hops, rocks and plastic-eating yeast: Kent to support five sustainable food trials

By School of Natural Sciences | 20 June 2024

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 found in supermarket pre-washed vegetables

By School of Natural Sciences | 12 June 2024

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

Kent ‘scientists help save UK pint from climate change’

By School of Natural Sciences | 26 March 2024

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

Kent researcher awarded significant funding

By School of Natural Sciences | 20 March 2024

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

Steroid drugs used for HRT can combat E. coli and MRSA

By School of Natural Sciences | 14 March 2024

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

Five ways Kent research is improving our food systems

By School of Natural Sciences | 26 February 2024

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

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