Over 100 academics, clinicians, business people and public sector representatives came together at an event organised in collaboration with Discovery Park last week, to celebrate … Read more
Category: Staff news
Mind the gap: engaging with the black community on stem cell donation
On Monday 4 December the new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion published a report stating that minority ethnic and mixed heritage … Read more
Kent research to support seaweed project in Zanzibar
University researchers are helping county Kent-based seaweed technology business Nutri-San develop new techniques to transform seaweed extracts into a plant-based thickening agent for use in the food … Read more
Professor Alan Bull – friend, colleague and true polymath
It is with great sadness that we heard recently about the passing of our esteemed friend and colleague, Professor Alan Bull, who has died at … Read more
Kent Union ‘Above and Beyond’ Award Winners 2023
The Kent Union Above and Beyond Awards acknowledge exceptional individuals or teams who go above and beyond their duties to provide the utmost support to … Read more
University of Kent team develop ground-breaking bio-technology to revolutionise health and energy
Bioscientists from the University of Kent have made a landmark research breakthrough in synthetic biology that could help support the NHS and UK healthcare industry … Read more
Teaching Innovation Award for Natural Sciences
The University of Kent Natural Sciences department has won a Teaching Innovation Award! Congratulations to Dr Alexandra Moores, Dr Emma Hargreaves and Candis Roberts for … Read more
Biosciences receives BBSRC grant towards identifying cancer treatment
Professor Martin Michaelis (School of Biosciences) has recently won award funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) This project continues an existing collaboration … Read more
Ground-breaking discovery made in fight against incurable cancers
Researchers from the Medway School of Pharmacy (MSOP) – a partnership between the universities of Kent and Greenwich – in collaboration with colleagues from Inselspital (University Hospital of … Read more
Transmission of Strep A disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Kent-led research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the transmission patterns of a broad range of infectious diseases including group A streptococcus (GAS) … Read more









