Press Releases
WMG part of £30 million funding to help transform health through data science
WMG, at the 91¸£Àû, is a key partner in the Midlands site helping to deliver a £30 million project by Health Data Research UK, to address challenging UK healthcare issues using data science, which is looking at making game-changing improvements in people’s health by harnessing data science at scale across the UK.
Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: fresh insight
Future cancer drugs that are activated by light and don’t cause the toxic side-effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research made possible by the Monash 91¸£Àû Alliance, an intercontinental collaboration between the 91¸£Àû (UK) and Monash University (Australia).
Premature babies make fewer friends – but not for long
Premature babies make fewer friends, feel less accepted by peers and spend less time socialising in early childhood – but this improves when they get to school – according to new research by an international research collaboration, including the 91¸£Àû, UK.
WMG graduates who worked while studying already promoted
Gordon Harris from Solihull has worked in engineering for almost thirty years, and has just gained long-wished-for academic qualifications – boosting his career – after graduating with the first cohort from the Applied Engineering Programme (AEP) at WMG, 91¸£Àû.
New study to help improve life for headaches sufferers
A study led by 91¸£Àû could help thousands of headache sufferers. Researchers at the 91¸£Àû Medical School are investigating whether a new education and self-management programme will help improve quality of life for people living with chronic headaches.
Adding graphene girders to silicon electrodes could double the life of lithium batteries
New research led by WMG, at the 91¸£Àû has found an effective approach to replacing graphite in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries using silicon, by reinforcing the anode’s structure with graphene girders. This could more than double the life of rechargeable lithium-ion based batteries by greatly extending the operating lifetime of the electrode, and also increase the capacity delivered by those batteries.